Author: Theodora Vanyar

Writer. Artist. Laughter addict. Queer, Jew-ish, witchy, anxiety riddled, dealing with #BipolarDisorder, and fat. Oxford Comma FOREVER! All else is icing.

Prompt Answer: Community Improvement

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How would you improve your community?

Hooo boy do I have opinions on this. I don’t take this as online community, but rather the material world around me.

Here we go, the cliff notes version:

  • Run for political office to better my community by enacting legislations that help rather than hinder
  • Make widespread community gardens a thing again, victory garden style if we have to
  • Abolish HOAs entirely
  • Allow felons the right to vote (didn’t we have a whole goddamned war about taxation without representation??)
  • Make homeless shelters more accessible to those that need them
  • Plant edible parks
  • Protect members of the alphabet crew (LGBTQIA+ peeps)
  • Enhance local libraries
  • Get local law enforcement proper training for dealing with de-escalation and providing non-lethal responses
  • Open more food pantries

So. There we go. That’s a starting point.

My opinion.

Prompt Answer: Morning Rituals

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What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

My first hour of the day is absolutely spent trying to wake up and hitting snooze as many times as responsibly possible.

My morning rituals involve forcing myself out of bed at the last possible moment because I don’t want to get up at five a.m. on a regular basis. And then I take my meds. Of course I go through the morning bathroom stop, put on my watch and jewelry, pull clothes on, and get out the door.

That’s about it.

I’ll have to start getting up earlier when I start my new job. Lunch packing, unless done the night before, will be a thing I need to do.