04/17/2026
Does my happiness upset you?
Why are you best with gloom?
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got a gold mine
Diggin’ up in my living room
The Ben Harper version of Maya Angelou’s poem: Still I Rise. Maya is a fellow Aires!!!
I hope you’ve been enjoying my stories about my wild ride called life so far. I have been so used to keeping to the shadows and thinking that justice would never come for any of the members of my family, that I am very scattered at these latest developments.
It has been overwhelming and confusing to live my story and trying to explain events as they happened without letting some of my family member’s accusations of me color the narrative too much. I know I can be very defensive about some of these topics because for all of this time they have been gaslighting me that my criminal sister actually was my saintly role model and my abusive alcoholic of a father was just misunderstood, but still a very fine man. There were years I thought I had lost all of my marbles and that they were correct about the world as they had described it after all. Ew. That is not a very nice thing to do!
It has been an experience similar to escaping psychological torture. A very elaborate RUSE! The perfidy. We can call it operation: the emperor has no clothes.
Every time I said ‘hey look, the criminal is doing crimes’ every single member of my family said I was making it up because I have ‘liberal snowflake feelings’ compounded by ‘demons in my soul’. Thanks mom. Okay! No, bless YOUR heart.
The schadenfreude writes itself, you can’t make this stuff up!!
Thank you, good peoples of the free worlds, for encouraging me for all these years. We’ve had some UPS and DOWNS, I think it’s safe to say.
I really like the team I’m on now though. Somebody else can have my spot on my fam’s team. Somebody is gonna have to do the important work of thinking of different ways to turn a jail cell into a jail home cause I’m out! I will no longer be reporting for scapegoat duty!
Just regular Aires duties. We hate to lead but we don’t follow orders 🐏🥳🤣