Vitalogist wrote:Just Insta, but I barely use it. Got rid of FB a long time ago. Curious about TikTok… might give it a try. Are elder Millenials allowed on TikTok?
Vitalogist wrote:Just Insta, but I barely use it. Got rid of FB a long time ago. Curious about TikTok… might give it a try. Are elder Millenials allowed on TikTok?
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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tragabigzanda wrote:meant to type "reddit" for Chrome to autofill the rest and take me there, but was slamming keys and somehow wound up at Readers Digest dot com. I can only imagine what's in the DF pipeline for me now...
may your feed be nothing but the very best laughter is the best medicine jokes.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
does readers digest even have a digital footprint? I imagine you’re just going to start getting some random things in the mail from them. Maybe a free quarter, or a 2024 calendar
i went onto the olivia rodrigo website just to price shipping on a vinyl release for my daughter and now i'm getting spammed by her machine like a mf'er
Chris_H_2 wrote:i went onto the olivia rodrigo website just to price shipping on a vinyl release for my daughter and now i'm getting spammed by her machine like a mf'er
Chris_H_2 wrote:i went onto the olivia rodrigo website just to price shipping on a vinyl release for my daughter and now i'm getting spammed by her machine like a mf'er
Chris_H_2 wrote:i went onto the olivia rodrigo website just to price shipping on a vinyl release for my daughter and now i'm getting spammed by her machine like a mf'er
You never should have done that.
Have a daughter, I mean.
right?!? i blame my defective sperm.
After seeing how the all the boys behaved at a birthday party this weekend, it made me glad to be a girl dad.