"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." ~ Melody Beattie
gratitude
My dear friend’s niece, Shubhashree, is fighting an unimaginably hard battle against acute leukemia. This fundraiser is her fighting chance: to be pain-free, to recover completely, and to run alongside the limitless imagination she has for her life.
Your support, whether through a donation or by sharing her story, can help make that future possible. Together, we can give her the tomorrow she so deserves.
Thank you sincerely. Below is the link.
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-child-of-bipash-roy-chowdhury
For Valentine's Day, I send my best wishes to all of you. You may just be small images on my screen, but you bring so much love, information, ideas, and opinions into my life. #ValentinesDay #Love #Gratitude #Community #Ideas #Connection #SocialMedia
I've been featured on Cosmic Chart Magazine Issue #4 (August 2026)
On Top 30 #electronicmusic Album of the month. #gratitude
https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/album/machines
Read the mag:
https://online.pubhtml5.com/yuhtz/zwgl/
Check the Comic Chart Magazine #Bandcamp:
https://cosmicchart.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-chart-magazine-04-pdf-audio
@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic
#music #fedimusic #art #cukture #community #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #electronic #synthetizer #synth #modular #modularsynth #analog #analogsynth #ambient #atmospheric #soundscape #press #magazine
Nature's offering - a beautiful Gerbera daisy with soft petals and elegance. A reminder of all the beauty that surrounds us.
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/natures-beauty-renata-natale.html
#NaturePhotograhpy #beauty #peace #healingart #daisies #Photography #MastoArt #buyintoart #gratitude #Flowers
As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.
#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology
I love this song. As a song, it holds me in a trace. As nostalgia it recalls such a terribly bittersweet age and time. Without a doubt the worst days of my life which held some of the hardest truth I have experienced. But I survived and I transformed in that survival. It took me to a place in life I didn't know existed but I was starving for.
Helping others is the highest calling. If you can, help another person. It is the best thing you can do for yourself.
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This Saturday, the 24th, will mark exactly three years since I ran away from home to join the Fediverse!
In the 1095 days betwixt, I have learned a ton from y'all, grown so much as a person, had a bunch of adventures, and changed most of my life 
Some of the highlights were:
- ⚧️ discovering I'm nonbinary
- 💞 surviving a suicide attempt
- 🧠 writing a cool paper on autism diagnosis
- 🏃🏼♀️ leaving my abusive marriage
- ❤️🩹 doing suicide prevention check-ins with folx
- 🔞 becoming an adult content creator
- 😘 dating a few Fedi folx
- ❤️ meeting my two amazing partners
- 🔓 becoming RedTeamTools' brand ambassador
- 
making the TeslaFire emoji
- 💝 meeting like 100 Fedi folx IRL
- 🐈 saving a cat
- 🩸 paying a street medic's medical bills
- ❤️🔥 founding @AltAfterDark
- 🐟 saving a couple big fish from a net
- 🩹 helping multiple people recover from surgeries
- 🤯 being followed by over 7000 of you
- 🫠 getting fan art & music from y'all
- 🤘 learning electric guitar & bass
And *all*¹ of those were only possible because of you. Thank you. Thank you so, so much.
¹ I'm sure this list is missing a ton of things 😅²
² I'm running out of emoji 😋
(way more than) #ThreeGoodThings #Gratitude #Fediversary #ThankYou
DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎
I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.
And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.
If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.
I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.
Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.
But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.
I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.
Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.
And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.
And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.
The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.
Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.
None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.
Gratitude.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
@meditation
@3goodthings
#death #mortality #afterlife #consciousness #spirituality #ACIM #clarity #gratitude #presence #ordinarylife #mystery #life #openweb #human #person #spider #Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving #Meditation #Breathwork #Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech
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Being active on the Fediverse always reminds me that the world never stops.
Whenever I drop in, there is always a friend to connect with somewhere that is waking up, having a break from work or just relaxing after dinner.
This chance to connect with anyone, anytime and anywhere just blows me away.
On Taking Care of The Self
It is with a slow dawning that I have come to notice, day after day, the multitude of unspoken assumptions that haunt me like ghosts, ever present yet scarcely acknowledged. They're the soft, invisible mandates that require me to approve of particular narratives, to the quiet adoption of certain scripts that have become, in our present age, almost cultural orthodoxy. Among these scripts, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the well‑intentioned, if not occasionally perfunctory, messaging of […]
https://untilted.weblog.lol/2026/06/on-taking-care-of-the-self
#PersonalBlog #Blog #Weblog #MentalHealth #SelfCare #SelfCompassion #SocialMedia #Gratitude #Pressure #Expectations #Mental #Physical #Health #Psychology #Technology #Tech #Adjacent #ThisIsNotAWordPressBlog
THE CHILD IN THE MIDDLE 🔹
This morning, after my breathwork, I sat looking out the window.
It was only nine degrees, but I didn’t need the heating. Pete was steam-cleaning the floors, the house smelled of lavender, and about two metres from me, a huge green parrot with a bright red crest was having his breakfast in a tree fern.
The window framed him perfectly. He couldn’t see me through the glass. He stood on one foot, held his food with the other, and then, just as I was admiring him, he fell over.
He recovered his dignity. And I laughed. He’s still there as I’m writing this.
Making peace with the past doesn’t seem to stop memories from surfacing. It just changes the way they land.
Sometimes an old piece comes back without asking to be fixed, only to be seen from where we are now. And sometimes something you have blamed yourself for all your life suddenly becomes clear: it wasn’t you. You were a child. You weren’t responsible.
My parents were unhappily married. My mother became pregnant with me, and in those days, that meant they had to marry. I grew up with a deep sense that I was basically unwanted.
It has taken me a lifetime to see that whatever was happening between them belonged to them. It was never the responsibility of the child who arrived in the middle of it.
Something similar has been happening with my memories. I can look back at my childhood and see what happened without carrying the old guilt with it.
Children are not responsible for what happens to them.
That recognition has released something very old in me.
And then the forgiveness goes further.
I can look at my mother and father and see two very young people who hardly knew one another, trying to live with what they knew at the time.
I don’t have to pretend the family wasn’t a catastrophe. I don’t have to rewrite the past or make painful things beautiful.
I can simply see more clearly now.
I was mistaken about my parents.
That doesn’t mean the events were different. It means my perception of them is different.
And strangely, wonderfully, I find deep gratitude there.
The Course calls it a movement from insanity to sanity. For me, this morning, it feels much simpler than that.
The past is still the past.
It just isn’t touching me.
Meanwhile, the parrot is having breakfast, Pete is cleaning the floors, the house smells of lavender, and life keeps presenting itself.
One miracle after another.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#Forgiveness #Childhood #HealingThePast #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM #Innocence #Perception #Family #Gratitude #Miracles
