Moonlight
If you asked me to describe my love, I'd tell you about the moon
Thank you for your patience for May’s newsletter. It’s a few weeks, little late because motivation showed but she showed up with distractions.
Moon Goddess
Muslims don’t worship the moon, I feel I need to start there before I go anywhere else. I love her because she’s beautiful not because someone said to bow down. I love how many nights I’ve looked up at her fullness and feeling it in my body. She’s so powerful and so soft, the waters everywhere follow her. My devotion to the moon came when I noticed her following my car as a child, my parents said she shone that way for everyone but I knew it was different for me. I knew on the nights I was afraid and hiding from abuse that she was there to tell me things would get better. In the night, true darkness there is still her love just the way all my darkness shines so luminously now.
The Gilded Age also known as the American Downton
“I have to say before I show you, because I love him don’t laugh that he’s white, okay?”
I feel like I need to give this disclaimer whenever I tell people about my favorite comfort television, because of the amount of historical fiction I consume. I do really enjoy sitting down and losing myself in a soap opera of another time, apart of it goes back to my algophilic childhood (listen my parents were strict on the media and PBS/BBC were few of the exceptions), masterpiece theater and a mother who enjoyed Jane Austen but it’s mostly the slowness.
Gilded Age helps with the slowness and it feels a lot more exciting even in the first season also Carrie Coon. I love seeing Cynthia Nixon play silly and the story has kept me entertained but not satiated but entertains in a way that feels good for my brain.
Monster House Dispensary
If you ever asked me, I’d let you know that I didn’t think I’d ever visit Ruidoso. How did I end up there? The same way I end up most fun places, by accident and lack of planning on my part. I don’t really know how to relax or look for fun because I feel like there’s so much that needs to be done before I can rest. So when we drove past a place called Monster House that sold cannabis, I needed to attend. A consumption lounge is a lovely idea, its a place to sit with others and enjoy. The Ruidoso location’s environment is closer in culture to Texan than New Mexican, more Slim Thug than Lil Rob which was a comfort for this Htown girl’s soul.
The budtender that served us proudly discussed how the weekend before they held an after party for a few rappers. I didn’t know their music just their names, so I don’t think it matters to name them here. Just know that the budtender felt it was important to tell me that they were cool enough for rappers to hang out with them.
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