Our school district gave up art and language programs and did some grim staff cuts to handle years of funding losses, but every kid in the district gets free breakfast and lunch *year round* and they have a free clothing shop and laundry facilities for families. More schools could do this.
First big thunderstorm of the season rattled the pictures on the walls from roughly 1-3am π and the dog who previously slept through everything in his cozy insulated cave was transformed into the dog who sleeps through nothing so no one else will either π
βThere's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were *here* that they were *everywhere*. Smash and grab jobs happening across the city nearly simultaneously. But the things being stolen aren't jewels, they're lives.β
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A thing I have been scrabbling away on for a couple of months is coming into focus and idk if I should publish it as three chunky posts or one extremely long essay
