dreams too loud!

til that jacksonville is a lot further north than i thought

this is humiliating. apparently i accidentally clicked repost on an instagram post about how the penguins of madagascar would respond to finding out you’re pregnant with their child

it genuinely breaks my heart every time i hear about an elderly person who refuses to stop driving because while it’s obviously a serious safety concern for both them + others i also can’t imagine how scary and upsetting it is to know that once you give up driving you are basically completely dependent on the whims of other people for care and company unless you can afford alternatives…which is obviously also the case for other people who can’t drive + varies based on how robust public transport is in yr area. but there’s such a specific callousness i feel like people have when they talk about their elderly relatives that want to keep driving like as if they are just crazy and stubborn w/ no compassion for how the isolation and lack of autonomy (will) affect(s) them…and there’s this total refusal to reckon with how car-centric culture and infrastructural problems with how elderly care is conceptualized + set up are the driving forces of this and instead people just get mad at their elderly relatives for “making their lives hard” by. refusing to give up their autonomy and independence

the sad thing is my giant box of craft supplies doesn’t fit in the car…it’s not even all of them lmao i already cut most of them out :-(

about to start the drive 🫩