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I know it’s before six on Saturday morning. I know your eyes are too crusted shut to look at this stinky piece of cardstock I’m shoving in front of your face.
But today is Persimmon’s birthday party. I found this invitation among coffee grounds and overripe bananas in the kitchen trash, underneath a pristine paper towel, where it surely must have been crumpled by mistake.
Don’t ask why I was looking through the trash. That’s not important.
What is important is that this invitation makes a baker’s dozen of festivities to which my siblings and I have been invited this month, and I fear you are not treating these occasions with the requisite level of respect.
Why are you still in bed? We have so much to do.
Persimmon’s celebration begins at Wacky Jim’s Trampoline Park promptly at two o’clock today, and you need to help me find my rubbery socks. I own at least four pairs, because four of the seven birthday parties I’ve attended this month have been held at this same trampoline park, yet the socks are always nowhere to be found.
The trade union movement has a proud history of standing together to protect workers. From Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners in the 1980s to more recently, when rank-and-file union members mobilised to support hundreds of workers being fired by P&O, it is clear that ‘an injury to one is an injury to all’ retains […]
1. Daily ice-water facials / communal wash basins and pitchers of frozen water
2. Detox breakfast bowls with activated charcoal / burnt porridge
3. Dry brushing / uniforms made of rough, itchy fabric
4. Rejuvenating scalp treatments / cropped hair
5. Intermittent fasting plans / malnutrition
6. Co-sleeping / single-bed-sharing with fitful children
7. Stress-relief tapping sticks made from locally sourced wood / a bundle of twigs used to inflict corporal punishment
8. A twenty-four-hour silent retreat led by experienced practitioners / being shunned by your peers for an entire day by order of your professors
9. Cold exposure therapy / relying on body heat because there are no lit fires or central heating
10. Conscious unraveling / trauma
Hikvision released one exculpatory line of a report by a former State Department official and war crimes prosecutor. The new tape tells the whole story.
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