Cathy
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Cathy
@CathyLabrado
Loves Books, Gardening and Good Conversation , Good wine and listening to spaces! Worked in Dental, so I notice teeth ha ha!
Entrou em Şubat 2020
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To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
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@TIlacqua64279 @jake_oncall The whole thing was just too fast and I agree about the lawyer!
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@jake_oncall @CathyLabrado I think Anthony was hammered because his lawyer was Ass. Hard to believe that with all that 💰 raised this was the 🤡 they chose. He was going away but a good lawyer would have gotten manslaughter at worse and probably wouldn't have taken this case to trial.
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@aintscarylarry Yes, this has me thinking!
Worked all my life and paid my dues!
They really want to rob and un alive people!😱😱😱😱😱
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@drterrysimpson So nice to hear something positive about our great state!
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People keep telling me to move to Texas, Florida, or Tennessee.
Why?
In California we have the BBQ. Texans moved here and opened restaurants.
We have the music. The artists come here to perform.
We have the beaches. We have the mountains. We have wine country. We have deserts.
If I want Nashville hot chicken, I can get it. If I want Texas brisket, I can get it. If I want fresh seafood, I can get that too.
The difference is that in California I can have breakfast by the ocean, lunch in wine country, and be skiing in the mountains the same day.
California has plenty of flaws. I complain about some of them myself.
But after moving to California from Arizona in 2020, my biggest regret remains the same:
I should have moved here 20 years earlier.
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@PaulRudnickNY I voted from Oregon with my medical marijuana card!
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@TheRealThelmaJ1 Yes we are subsidizing the red states!
I’m so sick of people bashing CA!
Of course I am a native CA person!
We pay through the nose for everything! The gas is 5.60 a gallon in my neighborhood. I’m barely eating! Just kidding!
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If you're a blue check interact with @hunterbiden's account as much as possible so Elon has to pay him.
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@tsgiselle336 His mom is being sworn in now to give testimony to try to convince the court to lessen his punishment/sentence.
GIF
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@TheRealThelmaJ1 @LauraLoomer We are ecstatic in CA! The majority doesn’t want the MAGA guy!
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@LauraLoomer Your Doctor Daddy needs to put you in the locked ward again.
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@denvercunning Good space! I was confused about the whole issue! I am grateful to have it explained!
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My wife retired from the military during Trump’s first presidency after 22 years of service.
Trump’s letter of appreciation was signed using autopen. They had to blow the signature up, which made it look pixelated. It was garbage.
…which is where she put it as soon as we got home.
I sent @BarackObama a letter request two months before her retirement ceremony because that’s the last leader MSgt. Shead served under.
…it showed up in our mailbox the morning after she retired. It was PERFECT timing.
It’s been framed and displayed for guests to see. 🇺🇸🫡
“So anyone who comes over knows what a real President does for service members, even after leaving the White House.”
- My Wife


Deb.J.@MaxiPod
@RyanShead @BarackObama I’d totally frame that, you kidding me?? 💕
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