13: Florida!!!
Misti My personal opinion is that there should be no Taylor Swift on this song, only Florence + The Machine. It’s Florence’s song all the way.
Florida
Is one hell of a drug
Florida
Can I use you up?
12: “To Peacefully Petition”
Protesting the slaughter of innocents as casualties of war is not antisemitic just as marching in the streets against the Vietnam War was not anti-American. When a student rally to support Palestinians was organized for the University of Texas campus, the state’s governor had troopers from the Department of Public Safety immediately dispatched to break up the gathering, although there had been no apparent violations of the law or violence by anyone present. The governor, however, had more than 100 DPS officers at the ready to move in with riot gear and disrupt the student assembly. These are the same officers, who, under Abbott’s control, were unable to raise a gun against a mass murderer at a public school in Uvalde. UT reportedly has about $50 million invested in arms manufacturers and pressuring the administration to divest was a central cause of the protest.
11: Blackwater Rivers
Ode to Blackwater Rivers — With Taylor Brown via the Batch Podcast from The Bitter Southerner
10: How to Be Alone – Quote #2
And now I have nothing but unbelievable luxury in front of me: a hotel room all to myself for the entire night, a bag of gummy candy in my resupply box, a bathtub that’s practically big enough for me to swim laps in, and it feels, for the first time since I started this hike, that everything might be okay.
How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
by Nicole Antoinette
9: How to Be Alone – Quote #1
This is long-distance hiking, I think: hours of intense effort and physical discomfort followed by blissful moments of laying down and shoving salty snacks in your mouth.
How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
by Nicole Antoinette