Reposting my essay on learning
#Gaeilge
,
#InisO
írr, & my
@Fulbright_Eire
. My pinned tweet vanished, so repinning.
"This is an unruly liminal place where both the world and I are sinking and rising, disappearing and reappearing, gathering and releasing."
OMG y'all. I ran in to tell my son (14yo) how Gen Z (his gen) punked
@realDonaldTrump
w/ticket plan on TikTok and IG!
My son in the middle of scrolling through TikTok: "Yeah, I know Mom. I ordered one of the tickets. That was the plan. Our plan worked."
#TrumpRally
#GenZ
2/5 Never expected this to go viral! My son woke in happy shock asking for Chocolate Crepes. Yes! As he said: Not just about One but the Many! Collective action. True community w/powerful purpose.
He'd like to use this moment for good & asks if you can, support/donate to:
@raindog212
@realDonaldTrump
I will! And I'll lay off telling him to get off his phone until after Biden wins! Apparently, he's not just wasting his time!
"As David Frum, the author of “Trumpocracy,” warned a year ago: “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” That’s happening as we speak.'
@hairyehairye
@lizzardo7
@realDonaldTrump
I threw the football with him for an hour today! And he got a box of Capn Crunch with Crunchberries. And I watched him play in the Superbowl in PS4 Madden because he needed moral support.😀
1/2 For the first time, I felt my President and Vice President acknowledge the loss, grief, & sacrifices we have felt & made this last year, for the first time I felt my grief for the loss of my Dad, Martin,
@davidhogg111
@CoriBush
Workplace harassment and threats against fellow employees get employees fired from other jobs. Why is MTG allowed to keep her job?
11 yrs sober today & one day at a time! I woke to birdsong, took my dog for a walk, then 8am tennis lesson, then breakfast w/my son, soon off to teach a writing workshop. All possible because I made the decision 11 years ago to give up booze, get real, and get after recovery. ❤️
Dear Paul & Minutemen,
Your midnight ride has been cancelled. We apologize for the 250 yr delay but there is a problem with your aircraft. No aircraft, pilots, flight attendants, baggage handlers, TSA staff. No airport.
#RevolutionaryWarAirportStories
#RevolutionaryWarAirports
@AndyRichter
Note time
@JoeBiden
texts Hunter: 6:57am. He wakes up worried for him, wanting to offer him hope & love.
What's Trump doing at 6:57am? Tweeting garbage, hate & conspiracy theories for hours already. Imagine his texts to his sons-- think he tells them he loves them? Signs "Dad"?
@propublica
And now we need to ask the question why the Department of Homeland Security refused to provide the Biden Transition team with security briefings these past weeks....
30 years ago I taught my first class as a Grad Student at University of Houston. I was 22. Now at 52? How many classes later, how many syllabi, how many wonderful and inspiring students and colleagues? Many many many. ❤️
Starting off my 50th birthday with coffee and a 12 Step Meeting. Honestly, open-mindedness, willingness, and sobriety are the only way for me to get to 50 more. ❤️❤️❤️
Happy news! I've been appointed as an External Examiner for the Creative Writing Program at University of Limerick, which means, among other more serious academic things, a yearly visit to Limerick, the best city in the world imho.
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@SEIC_UL
@EnglishAtUL
@josephcollins77
@USAA
23 year member and always valued your dedication to the military and membership. End your sponsorship of racist, sexist, and anti-military seditionist Tucker Carlson. Now. There is no reason to wait unless you agree with his anti-American beliefs.
@Ciaraioch
Lemonfield, County Limerick
NO SENSE. Lemons do not grow in fields in Ireland:
Originally: Léim an fheadh! Referring to the place where the deer jump across. That in between leaping space.
@chrislhayes
Ok. Maybe I alone flinched, but when I am with you, my friends, those dedicated to justice and equity and truth and science and empathy? I have faith in the country and am steadied.
@onesarahjones
I couldn't be with my dad while he was dying nor attend his funeral service and burial because of Covid rate in Georgia and quarantine regulations in New York but Amy Coney Barrett got her maskless party.
@eugenegu
@realDonaldTrump
He's also trying to trigger panic with his claims about these cars being unsafe. Like his sharpie hurricane warning for Alabama. Maybe affect stock prices, too?
On 9/11, my dad was working across from the Towers. He came home that day covered in toxic dust & developed cancer from that dust, the cancer he died from 19 years later on 8/11/2020. He was part of the 9/11 Victims' Compensation Fund. ❤️😢 I miss him.
Pic: 2005 w/granddaughter
2/2 my inability to be w/him during his last days, at his bedside as he left this world, at his funeral & burial w/ military honors honored and acknowledged. Thank you
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
. A St. Martin candle burns in memory of my Dad and in memory whom you have lost, too.
Wear a mask. Practice social distancing. Do not regret what you could have done to help save lives and protect our larger community.
Also: having to say goodbye to my Dad via iPad??? I do not wish such a horrificly lonely goodbye on anyone.
I miss my Dad. Every day.
Pic: 1979
Republicans say
@JoeBiden
should suspend his campaign while
@realDonaldTrump
is in quarantine? 😂😂😂 Biden follows CDC guidelines, protocols & wears a mask. He reaps the benefits of science. Carry on!
Trump & Co reap what they sow: Covid & quarantine. It is what it is.
My beautiful HoneyBea
#rescuedog
is transitioning to the next world this week. Cancer has spread. She is the best & most beloved, & my constant and familiar companion. She rescued me during a very dark time. I am bereft. ❤️❤️❤️ My other rescue dogs wait for her on the other side.
@ChrisMurphyCT
And then they celebrated at Trump Hotel with $795 bottles of Dom Perignon. Nevermind the absurd $650 markup by Trump hotel. A bit of "Let them eat...Covid" about their Trump Hotel party.
I drove 12.5 five hours round-trip today to pick up my kiddos. I haven't seen them since January because of COVID. Can I just say hugs have never felt so good???❤️❤️❤️❤️
@shady825
I feel bad for the families separated by KA Conway's boss, and all those children in cages. I feel bad for the Conway children caught up in this muck...but they have access to Twitter, to the courts, they have a public platform and are using it. Kids in cages are silenced.
I feel like I've pandemic aged 47 yrs in the past 2 yrs & like I've forgotten how to be in the world. That adventure-spirit-muscle has atrophied and it's all about blankets and couch and mysteries on Acorn and books and books and books to read and I feel a wee bit wary of y'all.
@seanspicer
@JoeBiden
So basically, Biden seeks insight from trusted advisors, listens to citizens of our Democracy, and isn't ruled by his narcissistic ego like Trump? Ok!
@mmcintire
Who refused to wear a mask and has exposed 100s due to his negligence. He should be charged with criminal negligence. As for sympathy? 😂😂😂 Nope, none for Rudy.
Hi all!
My latest on my journey through Ireland as Gaeilge for Lonely Planet!❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪
"My first attempt at Irish? Mostly intellectual hubris, but when I listened language tapes or to traditional music, I felt...
1/4 Thank you for all your support and retweets❤️ It's been an amazing and overwhelming day (sharing some of your comments with my son!). I'm blocking the trolls...no time for that shite.
Thank you for all the follows! Trying to follow back as fast as I can. Fair warning:
Christmas gift sent by my mom, but from my Dad who died in August. "He wanted you to have this. He'd framed it & hung it in his office in NYC for all those years," my mom said. Crying the happy sad tears.
I never wanted to be a princess. My Dad always taught me to aim high.❤️
1/2 My father died 2 days ago.
Because of quarantine &
@GovKemp
's malignant idiocy
I couldn't travel from GA to NY to be w/my dad this week, either his hospital bedside, his Funeral Mass, or Calverton National Cemetery where he will be buried with military honors to tomorrow.
During the last weeks of my father's life when he was in the hospital, I could not visit him, could not say "I love you" in person, could not hold his hand in mine, nor give him a kiss or hug. I had say "I Love You" and "Goodbye" over an iPad.
@realDonaldTrump
is a monster.
Clayton County, Georgia votes are coming in sometime after midnight.
The district of Rep. John Lewis.
We are expected to tip Biden Blue because of this county and the determined work and unwavering faith of Rep. Lewis.
It only took me 6 years, but I finally zeroed out the balance due to my divorce attorney. In celebration, I stopped at a garage sale and bought these vintage German Goebel bluebirds for $1 (for sale elsewhere for $50).
This hard beautiful poem for Spring by Michael Hartnett. I'm practicing reading it aloud as Gaeilge but keep choking up on its soft, sweet, heart thrumming, heart thumping brutality. The world is soft, sweet, hard, and brutal.
@Motherfocloir
#irish
#poetry
#poem
#gaeilge
Loveliest message from a student:
"Thank you for everything you’ve done to help me grow & mature as an artist, teacher, and human these last 3 years. I won’t forget it. When it’s my turn, I hope I’m half as good to the young people whose lives I touch as you were to me." ❤️
I woke up today to news that a friend unexpectedly passed away yesterday. She was vibrant, funny, and deeply committed to building a more just and humane world. She was thrilled to support
@JoeBiden
and especially
@KamalaHarris
(part of the
#KHive
). 🌊🌊🌊for you Andrea McKenna.
M'iníon, my daughter, is Always Always Artist. And inspires me to work as hard as she does on my own art-work. And now she's a BFA in Computer Animation student at
@RinglingCollege
! Grá mór!
❤️❤️❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Here, Dublin, 2018.