@gladdiegoodevening.bsky.social @gladdiegoodevening.bsky.social There’s an old saying from the Great Depression:
A Republican is a man who can’t eat unless he knows somebody else is starving .
Vote like our lives depend on it.
I’m an ally who offers mom hugs to LGBTQ+ when they need them. No DMs, no crypto, no porn.
D’Nice @dnice2024.bsky.social If one of y’all says some silly ass name, this whole class is gonna feel my wrath.
karlee @karleesyr.bsky.social Hoping for a better world for my family
There is Always a Reason to Smile 😊
🇺🇸 Dem Divorced & Retired
🚫DM 🚫MAGA 🚫Haters
George BB Stowe @georgestowe.bsky.social "Capital markets must create wealth for ALL members of the societies they inhabit. Anything short of that is exploitation of labor, life and the environment." GBBS
* Market Maker * Promoter * Market Insights *
www.gbbsfs.com 💙🌏
🍁Remmy Sheda💋💙🌊 @remmysheda.bsky.social Canadian Resister who hates Trump, MAGA, Q, The Big Lie, loves Mark Carney, supports LGBTQ, Pro Choice. Buy Canadian. Elbows UP! The North doesn't bow. #Resist #BlueCrew NO DMs!
BonnieNelsonwa @bonnienelsonwa.bsky.social I bleed blue.💙 Dem heart, and to my core, devoted to animals and children; writer, artist. Save Ukraine for their lives and ours
Mariekaren (not that Karen) @mariekaren95-55.bsky.social Im 70 just retired. children 3 ( one passed brain cancer 11 years ago
2 grandchildren no filter not a fan of this administration I want the country I grew up in back. Not the racism. Respect. Integrity I believe in vaccinations
New Leibniz @newleibniz.bsky.social Econophysicist, opera lover, traveler in time and space. The background picture shows Lorin Maazel after conducting "The Girl of The Golden West" at his farm in Castleton, Virginia in 2013. 
Garnet Rose 🌹 @garnet25-45.bsky.social Graduate of CSUN, Obtained Teaching Credential at USC, worked with autistic students, love travel, reading, and football, 🏈 NO DM’s, NO Crypto/Bitcoin, NO MAGA, NO PORN! No Gofund Me! Born in Rome, NY #FightOn, No bio, no follow
doc joan @newyorkwarrier.bsky.social • deleted Twit after muskrat’s X
• connoisseur of human folly
• NewYorkWarrior • resister
• lifetime liberal • vote blue
• clinical psychologist
• writer
• poet • photographer
• animal lover • cat rescuer
#catsrule 🐈 #catsrule
Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social Former 30-year federal prosecutor. Army vet. Rule of law guy.
100% independent.
https://substack.com/@glennkirschner?r=5akiq&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
YouTube.com/glennkirschner2
UNCRC.bsky.social @dalriad60.bsky.social Retired prof, anti-IDU settler on Vancouver Island., Dad x2 just visiting Earth. I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships. ++Swearing. Especially politics. UNCRC = United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). ZERO POSTS NO FOLLOW
@jimmy-and-evelyn.bsky.social @jimmy-and-evelyn.bsky.social Follower of St. Mother Teresa. Progressive believer who admires public servants like Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter & Raphael Warnock. Practicing Catholic. Art Historian. Amateur poet.
Deborah C @debcombs14.bsky.social Democrat , Women’s rights, Never trump. Want our country back. CA No DM’s 🫘
Marilyn Tatman @darkbaby007.bsky.social NW Oregon teacher, coast range hermit, semi-retired, prepper, motorcycle fanatic, adventurer. Former optimist, now I'm living every day as if it's my last. Don't blame me, I voted for Kamala.
Benton Lawrence @bentonlawrence.bsky.social Author of dystopian novel What Feeling Weighs. #StrongerTogether #Resist; Originally from Magnolia, AR https://a.co/d/05iDTFrh
LKL @lkllucas.bsky.social Happily married business owner and former Marketing Manager, Florida East for USA Today/Gannett No DM’s Please.
Kat @kadot96913.bsky.social Greek-American, Retired HR professional living in Hilo, Hawaii. Boston Red Sox fan. Follow current events closely, especially Taiwan and Ukraine. I believe human rights and civil rights are important. I support DEI and spend my money accordingly.
Jeffrey49🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦 @jeffrey49.bsky.social I do worry about climate change & where I'd move if/when our home is destroyed by wildfire
I like dogs esp JRT. Esp rescues. Daily long doggie walks. Bike rides.
End of life is a focus of mine. Advocate rights & assisted dying (MAiD)
Victoria, BC, Canada
FrannieB @grannyfranny7.bsky.social I tried with people around me. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. I need my 💙 community. #WeAreKnotGoingBack Dm me if you want a Blue Macrame Heart
Jubbs McCoy @jubbsmccoy.bsky.social real name David
music games
@acm272.bsky.social @acm272.bsky.social 
Paul Rubenstein @ubertar.bsky.social Musician, composer, instrument inventor/builder, microtonal, experimental, rock, jazz, world influences, Hindustani, gamelan... dabble in visual art, mainly painting.
Myrna Leveille Roy 🇨🇦 📎 @geez-louise-1501.bsky.social Retired Social Worker. Baby Boomer, Indigenous Canadian (Metis 🇨🇦 Chippewa Cree-Red River & USA 🇺🇸 💙). UofCalgary Alumni. Mother-in-law to a British Combat Veteran 🇬🇧 🙏🏼. AB 🇨🇦 🇺🇦!
*If you don’t post I don’t follow*
Kenneth Amaya @kennethamaya.bsky.social Husband, father, grandfather, and grateful for everything I have in life. Cat dad. Fanatic of Iron Maiden, Stephen King, and all other sorts of cool shit. Stay young!
Wish I lived somewhere on the coast of Maine, but I’m landlocked in Kansas!
@stevekona.bsky.social @stevekona.bsky.social Live in beautiful Hawaii 🌺🌈
Blue Crew ! 💙
No 🚫 DM please.
Aloha .
Lauren @birch48.bsky.social At home in New England. Animal Rescue my passion. Love whales, puffins, kittens, sea turtles, dogs, classic cars, and Kiva. Follow Meidas Touch Network. I believe in Our Constitution and the Rule of Law! Remove tRUMP, Remove ICE, Stop Killing!
Pammygirl10 @pammygirl10.bsky.social Wife, mother, democrat, political junkie, resist, BLM, LGBTQIA+ Ally🏳️🌈,Woke, Antifa member, resister, Climate Emergency, feminist, Atheist 🇺🇸democracy
Lesley Cox @lesley999.bsky.social Earth is my cathedral. Its beauty sustains me.
#HOLDTHELINE
Pray for me. I live in #Floriduh 🙄
Max Headroom is reporting from Thunder Dome.
My account was suspended for suspicious activity 😒. I'm starting over today, 08/22/2025.
Caactivist.bsky.social @caactivist.bsky.social 🦋Retired Union Organizer/Rep S.E.I.U.
Retired Ca State Employee
Democrat Agnostic Progressive🧢Political Organizer/Volunteer
Retired Barber/Instructor💈
Married
🚫NoChat, only if I know you🚫DM’s 🚫Porn 🚫MAGA’s🚫Bio - Media or Posts you will be blocked! I VET
Maya’s Mom @deadlinedemocracy.bsky.social Born and raised in the Deep South in the early 1960’s. Proud Liberal all of my life. Rebel with a cause. Recovering lawyer. Looking to leave this RW dystopia. 🇺🇦🗽💙
Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social I am jaded, misanthropic, and demiurgic. I love run-on sentences and Popeye's red beans. I have comma disease.
Mastodon: @seaslugofdoom@sfba.social
Signal: seaslugofdoom.77
Tricia Renee @theecatservant.bsky.social Unappreciated serial writer and blogger. Reader. Gamer. Queer: Poly and Bisexual. Black DC Native. Chronically ill. Gamer. She/Her. Books rock. Cat lover. Soap fan. In a queer platonic relationship.Episcopal. Avon Shop.
@dragonflyhigh.bsky.social @dragonflyhigh.bsky.social Wildlife Gardener | Bibliophile | Critical Thinker | World Traveler | Sociologist |Proud NorCal Democrat| Reject all organized religion! | DUMP THE DUMP | HELLA WOKE 
Independent spirit @drrrobotnikk.bsky.social Historically, women changed the world. Doing my part.
No crypto, no money, no pornography.
Ruth’s Ghost @ginsburgsghost.bsky.social 💁🏻♀️ “I ask no favor for my sex.
All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” I’m back to fight for it.
@kat3638.bsky.social @kat3638.bsky.social #Photography #Hiking 🥾
#SciFi 🖖 #Moon 🌝 #Vegan 🌱 Over-thinker. Procrastinator. And wolves, always #Wolves 🐺
💙🦋🌊 #BlueCrew
#EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArtShow
Lizzylizumab @lizzylizumab.bsky.social Old and bonkers
Ethan Wilson @ethanwilson24.bsky.social 
smithsgirl 🇺🇦 @chicagogirl7.bsky.social Long-time fan of democracy, NATO, the Oxford comma, and always doing the right thing even if it hurts. Cancer survivor. Vegetarian since 1993/Vegan since 2008 #fortheanimals #adoptdontshop
Happy childless cat lady. I pay attention.
Please, no DMs
Ann from AZ @annaz14.bsky.social Retired higher education administrator, unapologetic liberal. I travel to learn more about our world; read books to keep my mind sharp; collect Native American art to support artists and their culture; and pet my cats to stay sane.
Strange people @rosymelody136885.bsky.social Just documenting life and sharing thoughts.⚖️ Politically neutral🚫 No crypto / Web3 / gift cards
@azdotconnector.bsky.social @azdotconnector.bsky.social Vote a Straight Dem ticket.
Pets are a gift from God with an Expiration date. I love my Dog.
We under educated ourselves into this nightmare!
Trump is a criminal, Elon is a threat.
🇺🇸 Slava Ukraine, God Bless America.
Diane B @denb58.bsky.social Lover of Democracy, rule of law, equal rights, free speech, hater of the orange stain. Mom of 3 boys, 6 grandkids, retired, happily married. Determined to fight for this country. I don’t DM.
Sweetie314 @sweetie314.bsky.social Happily married nerd that falls in love with every dog I see. Loves baseball, art, movies, music and genealogy research.
Fun fact aficionado! Tell me the funnest fact you know 😃💙😃
Lara T is a museum nerd @museumlara1.bsky.social I love life! I love my family, friends, animals, plants, art, poetry, books, movies, museums, & food. I am here to learn & enjoy. Love is love. Cancer fighter. We have to help each other, not hate each other. She/her.🌈 🖖🌊🖼📚🌱 museo_lara on Insta
No DM.
Mike Benson @mbensonster.eurosky.social Retired rancher, psychologist, happy to be living in Catalonia and making pipes.
Michael John Lalikos @muzikmyk.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@michaeljohnlalikos?si=BhGyoOpH3GdEq1lN 🌞🏖️🌊🍕🦞🍦🍩📸🎆❤️
Enjoy music of all types and produce mostly electronic music,have written a few songs.Try to follow the golden rule.Question Authority !
🗽☮️🎹🪶🎸🥁🚢🎧⚾
1 daughter 2 sons 7grands + Wanda =❤️
GreatTruths.org LLC @greattruths.bsky.social Collaborative assessment and reflection of reality. Retired SPED Behavior/ Experiential Learning Specialist & friends. Veteran with intact oath to protect and preserve our Constitution. Happy Trails! No DMs please.
SnowBallQueen @snowballqueen.bsky.social Life long liberal living in a hyper Red state. Vegan.The Stupid: It’s everywhere. NO DMS, PORN/ SEX-BASED ACCOUNTS, CONSPIRACY NUTS, $ REQUESTS OR “DISABLED QUOTE” ACCOUNTS. I WILL NOT RESPOND and may block. Pick a fight and you will be blocked.
Barbara Mack @bluegreen195.bsky.social Nurse, Paralegal, Medical coder, Legal Nurse Consultant. Lifelong Democrat. anti -Trump and all he stands for. Standing for the resistance against Trump and his lies, and his minions who carry out his BS.
Pallan @boostyjammer.bsky.social Retired boomer and woke AF
-Silent gratitude doesn't do anyone very much good.
-If you ask better questions you'll get better answers.
Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social Generalist. I learn. I think. Sometimes I write about it. Links: https://linktr.ee/bannonrace
tnycruzr @tnycruzr.bsky.social ✨️Eclectic Goddess✨️
I raise 🦋 butterflies 🦋
Annie💙🌊♿️🇺🇸🇵🇱 @qohearts.bsky.social RN(ret), Syst Analyst, writer, major geek for anything science, math, or hockey. #LGRW #GoBolts Survivor of all life has thrown at me! 💙 in Fla.
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦
#Resist #AntiFa #StrongerTogether #GoodTrouble #FLABlueCrew #HumanRightsForAll #DOOR
🚫DMs
@peaceful-lee.bsky.social @peaceful-lee.bsky.social "You must be the change you wish to see in this world" - Mahatma Gandhi
"When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know peace." - William Ewart Gladstone
60 yo proud Democrat.💙
Jaime Villanueva @jaime-villanueva.bsky.social 🌈UChicago-educated nerd with a theater habit and an overactive laugh. Quiet-policy queer advocacy. White Sox forever testing me. (Chicago)
"Wait, this isn't a job site?"
AngTheLib 💙🌊 @angthelib.bsky.social New gramma! Radicalized by basic decency. Vote Blue to save America. Proud radical leftist lunatic. Vegan for the animals. ✌️💜🌱💙🌊💙🌊
Simon Universe @raptorsfanz.bsky.social Basketball🏀
Steelers🏈
Easy level retro games🕹️
Music🎸
Movie🎬
Half here, half away🤖
Melancholic and a 80's kidz 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦
The Doyle Institute of Music (Est. 2025) @doyleinstitute.bsky.social #EveryQueenSong
#MetallicaMonday
🎶 🎧🎵 📕📖📘
Proud dad. Fluent in sarcasm, profanity, and song lyrics. Be a Mountaineer, wherever you are.
ljaguar @ljaguar9.bsky.social Live in Santa Fe NM. Retired. Loves cats. Artist.
Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social Illustrator/Artist Life Long Democrat💙🌊Daughter of a Marine. Love Justice and Liberty for all. #Resister #BlueSkyFriends #BlueTeam #Meidas & Popok #LegalAF ⚖️#OneMinnesota
#DefendersOfDemocracy#SheShed
❤️Canadian Friends Welcome.
🇨🇦🫘💙🇺🇸⚖️🗽🇺🇦
JWfromGretna @riverhub.bsky.social jazzed for all things animals, music, yoga, good friends, guitars, vinyl records and drag queens 
CMJHawk86 @cmjhawk86.bsky.social Unapologetic opinionated, but well-researched progressive policy wonk who will never, ever, kiss the ring. I also post about Philly sports, soccer, EVs, beer, running, dogs. No trolls/bots/DMs. Views expressed here are authentically mine and mine alone.
Rebecca @rebeccad1960.bsky.social Nasty Old Atheist.
Canadian 🍁 Liberal
No DM's.
Ann Rose @annrose.bsky.social Abortion rights activist since 1975. AbortionClinics.com directory of abortion clinics. TheOtherRoe.com documentary. Mad as hell.
Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com K.A. Brown |🎬 SAG-AFTRA LA Gov Affairs & Public Policy (GAPP) '23-'25 & Film Committee '23- '27 | Media Director @radiodramanetwork.bsky.social #CUNYTV | AI Safety/Ethics | Writer | NichePR | Hollywood | Docs |🌏#Climate
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churchlady320 @churchlady320.bsky.social What we do on the streets is enhanced or killed by laws we make. 40- year street activist for women, racial justice, LBGTQ rights, unions, immigrants, homeless. Fighting RW extremists daily. Now I fight for our rights in legislation. Harris progressive.
Porsche flipflop 💙💪🏽🦋🍷 @porscheflipflop.bsky.social Human rights, vineyard explorer, pro-choice, designer, dog lover, foodie, runner, LGBTQ+ ally 🏳️🌈, family & friends. #MAGAisEvil #SaveOurDemocracy #ProtectOurRights #Resist #FightBack
Patricia @lostsiren13.bsky.social USArmy vet. Retired Calif Dept of Corrections and Microsoft. Just hanging out with the wildlife and bears here on the mountainside. Democrat. I breathe BLUE! 🚫MAGA!🚫DMs
Mark Grayson @markgrayson85.bsky.social Zero Judgment
Accept All
✅Gay✅Trans✅White✅Black✅Males✅Females✅Non-Binary✅Christian✅Porn✅Jew✅Atheist✅Liberal✅Conservative✅Lover✅Hater✅Consumer✅Producer✅Muslim✅Immigrant✅Natural Born✅
kazuki @gh-fg.bsky.social Japanese.
Coffee enthusiast ☕
Music lover 🎧
Here for good conversations.
📷 instagram.com/miyako_stamp
adalbertbruce @adalbertbruce.bsky.social Books, cinema, comics, photography (both analog and digital); art, weird fiction, zines, travel. Grounded in the Pacific Northwest. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adalbertbruce. -Jonathan Bruce Falk
@thecuriousbird.bsky.social @thecuriousbird.bsky.social I like creatures of all kinds. Except the yucky ones, who are usually bipedal anthropoids.
Art is fun.
Dee❤️💙🦋 @mammadee.bsky.social 🫅👸🏾🧏🏽♂️🧏🏽♀️🐕🐶❤️💙🦋 🛑DM's #Sussexsquad
https://sussex.com
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https://www.instagram.com/aseverofficial?igsh=eXMxbWpjb2NlbDBi
https://Asever.com
https://bsky-users.theo.io/
Geri Fox @tn-gerif.bsky.social 💙🦋💙🦋
Entrepreneur, Activist, Aspiring Writer on Substack, Progressive Leftist, Feminist, Mystic, Music lover, Beader. ❤️ workouts & hikes in our Hemlock Hollow. In a +32 yr partnership + cats + wildlife. Proud mom & G'ma!
🚫 NO DM’s 🚫
💙Joani in the sky with cubic zirconia 💙 @greeneyedlady07.bsky.social #BlueResister INFJ. Mother, wife, Mémère💙Liberal💙LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally💙BLM💙Blue state/MA 🚫Crypto 🚫Porn. 🚫GFM 🚫DM’s 🚫 No Starter Packs. Democratic Socialist. Joined 11/13/2024
“Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?” Thomas Jefferson
JaxDeeDee 💙💛 🇺🇦 @jaxdeedee.bsky.social #StrongerTogether 🖇️
#NoJusticeNoPeace ⚖️
🚫👑🪧📣🐸
Cheeqee🪶Cheex @cheeqee.bsky.social Yaqui Sonoran, Indigenous, reader of good books.. everyday runner, love puppies and babies.. but don’t want either.. true blue Dodgers fan , Democrat ,🚫maga..
Pudgy Cat @pudgycat.io Just a pudgy cat basking in the sunny spots of digital entertainment.
Doc Martin @docmartin87.bsky.social Mental health. Pro Wrestling. Horror. Just a few of my passions.
🚫No Data Centers🚫No Flock🚫No Fascists
Bigbruin81 @bigbruin81.bsky.social Proud Dad, Husband, Grandpa, Uncle, Brother. Voracious Reader, Dog Lover, Native Californian and Indefatigable Progressive. UCLA alum. Always striving to make the world a better place for our kids.
Go Bruins! Go Giants! Go Niners!
@tat1111.bsky.social @tat1111.bsky.social USA
Democrat
Military Brat
FREEDOM IS FOR ALL PEOPLE
🇺🇸 👊🏻 🇺🇸
PRO DEMOCRACY
🚫 crypto, porno, maga,DM
No $$$
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
RNSue @suzb70.bsky.social Kindness and compassion are required. Health care is a right. My family fought for Freedom, not fascism.
Bryan Bouton @bbouton.bsky.social he/him
my opinions = mine
When they show you who they are, believe them.
Love each another, that’s the only rule in this game...we get one life in this part of the journey , so act accordingly.
Becket58 @becket58.bsky.social Happily Married
Dog mom 🐾
💯 Democrat
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
United against hate!
I’m working on follow backs.
#Blues #BSC1 #Betsy1776
🚫 DM’s
We're Not Home @wnh13842.bsky.social Vote Blue 🌊 No DM's. No MAGA🚫. #UkraineStrong. Old enough to remember cars without seatbelts and TVs with vacuum tubes.
РУССКИЙ ВОЕННЫЙ КОРАБЛЬ, ИДИ НАХУЙ!
HeatherJTaylor @heatherjtaylor.bsky.social Hekuhva life so far. Worked in L.A. 10 yrs as a publicist/Mgr for Jermaine Jackson, Kiera Chaplin + Flavor Flav. Then I moved to live closer to parents and reality. Producer. Resister. Fight 4 human rights #blue Member LGBTQ Victory Fund. #HRC #vote ❤️
@bluesky-api.bsky.social @bluesky-api.bsky.social Feet in two boats | 🚫 trolls, don't feed them, don't give them O2, don't let them breathe | Boxer, yogi, sports junkie, geek #Dad
Jethro Remington MA @remingtonwy.bsky.social Independent. Anti-Trump. Anti-MAGA Pro-Ukraine. Anti-Zionist. Washington State. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸 #TheResistance NO DMs. I block squabblers. We are in this together!
Mike Domanski @fairhope-al.bsky.social No man born with a living soul can be working for the clampdown. Clampdown on London Calling by The Clash
@andielp.bsky.social @andielp.bsky.social 🇬🇧 British Expat ~ Canadian 🇨🇦
No Trump~ No ICE
Animal advocate~4 dogs~3 horses ~ 1 old cat.
🦋empathy🦋compassion 🦋hope🦋
Carpe diem
👉🏼NO DMs please👈🏼 I block immediately.
Freddy🍁 @raisedbythugs.bsky.social It's none of my business what sex organs you may or may not have, or what you do with them🙂
No non-essential DM's plz. (=block)
#Liberal #BBAus #Inclusion #BLM #Resist 💙 #BlueCrew
Proudly #Antifa
auticomics @auticomics.bsky.social striptekenaar die veel te veel van muziek houdt
mijn strips staan op facebook.com/ottoenlotte
#music #muziek #humor #lied #song #MusicSky
also often on spotify these days
https://open.spotify.com/user/auticomics?si=ae5e83f4856b48d8
DJ Mike V @djmikev.bsky.social DJ at WCBN FM Ann Arbor. Writer for Glorious Noise. Fan of everything from Neil Young to Outkast. There is joy in sharing music!
Jennifer Devon @jenniferdevon.bsky.social #Resister
#BlueCrew
Army veteran
Mil Intel EWSIGINT-RU linguist.
Ukraine will win. NAFO.
Colorado Avalanche 🏒
#GoAvsGo #AvsFam
Denver Nuggets 🏀 #GoNuggetsGo
PolySci degree from Ole Miss.
DMs are CLOSED.
#EatTheRichTakeBackOurMoney
Matt @irish-whiskey-matt.bsky.social USCG Vet • Led Zeppelin
Irish whiskey🥃• Guinness • NYG🏈Notre Dame🏈 • NYM ⚾• NJD🏒 UConn🏀 • 🖕🏼MAGA • Gen X
Girl dad • 21+
https://youtube.com/@irish_whiskey_matts
@wildnwoolywoman.bsky.social @wildnwoolywoman.bsky.social Liberal, love nature & music (smooth jazz, blues, rock n roll), dogs & cats are my kids, and a heathen but strive to be a better person every day. She/Her
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough." ~ Mary McLeod Bethune