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Annalee

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Dog mom/quilter/Quaker/nap taker
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Yesterday I said goodbye to my heartdog, my most precious , strangest creature, my Tullamore Fox. I have no doubt that we were meant to find each other, and for 8 years he's loved me more purely and simply than any other being. I'm so grateful that I was his person, that we got to share a life together full of sweetness and trust, and that I was able to give him a good death without catastrophe or suffering. He'll always be my boy. #tullamorefox #agirlandherdog #letthesoftanimalofyourbodylovewhatitloves by @armodaffodil

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Welcome, Little Bear 💗💖🥰 #thebrothersfoxandbear by @armodaffodil

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This year has been so full of monumental change already. My goal of existing in this current hellscape is to make empowered decisions as much as I can, to not let the horrors of the world debilitate and decimate me so that I can't take care of myself and others (lol #justgirlythings, #justdisabledthings 💁🏼‍♀️). So: I finally put up my mailbox (4 years in the making) and it serves as a perfect thesis statement for my house, which I am so, so proud of. I'm planning a celebration and honoring of the house and my mother's 10 year deathaverisary. In death, she was able to provide me with a safe, stable home. The snake eats its tail.

We miss Elsa dearly, but Tully is adjusting to life as a solo boog and seems to find comfort from his heartbeat vibration puppy.

I invented a goddamn bedroom where there had only ever been storage for 8 years, which still boggles my own mind.

I got a new (used) electric car! And at @ellenchetwynd 's suggestion (insistence) I have 2 new couches so I can finally say goodbye to the Blue Whale, a literal representation of inherited trauma whose beloved carcass I have lived on for 20 years. Oof. I'm learning to let go (I think). #rivendellishome #grieflife #whatatimetobealive #motherlessdaughters by @armodaffodil

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My bb boi 🌞❄️🦊 #tullamorefox #foxinthesnow #rivendellishome #aussieheeler #charalum by @armodaffodil

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Today is 10 years since my mom's last living birthday. Here she is with the baby girl Bojang 13 years ago, just a few weeks after Els came home from the pound 💖 #elsabellbojangle #motherlessdaughters #grieflife by @armodaffodil

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A week ago I had to say goodbye to my girl of 13 years, the most beautiful dog that ever lived, my constant, my Elsa. I haven't had the wherewithall to share about it - there's no way to sum up her life and what she meant to me. It came on suddenly and she was able to pass away at home peacefully with both of her parents with her, listening to her favorite songs. I know I did right by her but it was so, so excruciating and still feels unreal. Special thanks to @paintyourvision and @ellenchetwynd for using their powers of hyperfocus on helping me, and @a.h.iglehart77 for dropping everything to be there for the best dog in the world. There will never be another like her 💔♥️💔 #elsabellbojangle #themostbeautifuldogthateverlived #grieflife by @armodaffodil

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For a decade I've had recurring dreams about being in San Francisco and needing to get back to Baker Beach, but dream-me has only ever made it there ONCE in all these years. I don't really know why it serves as my psychic homeland - because it was the first and only place I got to choose to move? because it was the last place I was technically a child? because of the enduring fairytale quality of teenage love born here? - but this place still feels true, still meets me like a native tongue. It's been a lot to process what this trip has meant to me and shifted in me, and I'm grateful I finally fucking MADE IT thanks to @shesheard 😘🌉 #415 #heimat taken in Baker Beach at Golden Gate Bridge by @armodaffodil

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Haha meant to post this as a story but here we are. Erburburburr turned 14 yesterday!! Thanks to ex-husbando for the dog park hang, E/u-rburburburr Fest Pt 3! by @armodaffodil

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Reminders of good things this fall, feat. my favorite schmetterling, neighborhood Oktoberfest, making a luggage tag replica of the quilt I made for my dearest bb's worldwide adventure, good boogs, good people, good leaves, Janelle Monae, and being a hot bitch despite the horrors and haggard edges of my soul (at least there's that?!?! 💀) #elsabellbojangle #communitymatters #teenageloveforever #craftybitch #fallinnc by @armodaffodil

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Will probably go into a light coma tonight to avoid information. Thanks, freeze response! It's taken me years to appreciate my go-to trauma response, but sometimes it really is useful to be unconscious. #possumlife by @armodaffodil

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Honestly, I still don't know what brat summer means - for me it was acquire/furnish/decorate/move-from-a-3-room-to-8-room-lactation-clinic summer. Expanding business lady summer. It was successful and exhausting! And now Annalee fall is in the (still currently humid) air and I will do fun things and go places and stuff (?? tbd)

Today I did some recharging by going to the bookstore to pick up a copy of @kennethabaldwin 's most recent book in HARDCOVER (so fance!) and also treated myself to some new/used poetry books and tarot. Bury me in a pile of books plz 💕#ilovebookstores #treatyoself @flyleafbooks by @armodaffodil

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Annual fireworks anxiety snuggle pile megaboog #villagebeanorangeandspeckledsociety #elsabellbojangle #tullamorefox by @armodaffodil

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