The Brooklyn Bridge

 https://youtu.be/6aX0gXExU3s whenever I'm choosing a new place to rent, it's always a very exciting plus to see a working  dishwasher. Here's what I put in there besides food chariots: 1. Phone case: if 2020 has taught us anything, it's that we nasty. if it's not made of bedazzled feathers, throw it in. 2. Sponges: also seems to be an ameoba of threatening germs. Run it through, squeeze it out, and it at least looks  better. 3. Scrubbers: this is the same idea as #2, plus the little dish it sits in.  4. Kids' toys: they are almost all dishwasher-safe plastic and almost all been in the kid's mouth, dog's mouth, floor, and trash today. 5. Beauty Blender: I dunno really, but it looked better after I did it. This blog is free so you get what you pay for.  6. Parts of the stove: I'm so very grateful to have a stove, but it's the worst stove. One of those electric swirly twirly stoves, plus all my burners are tilted about 10° somehow? Well I turned of...

written before the results are in. 2020. "I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the republic, for which it stands.  one nation.  under God.  Indivisible. With liberty, and  justice  for  all." I'm not sure if it is 100% correct, but that is what I remember from reciting it every day in elementary school, leading each day on the intercom in junior high, and saying it into the school news broadcast camera each Friday in high school. I dunno, I guess I thought I was important and should be constantly talking, ha ha. I always felt the pledge was important and sacred, like a privilege and a duty to recite and uphold. Now, for the past 7 years when I have been doing a very silly magic show at any elementary school, I feel honored if I am there in the morning, at a time when the pledge is said. I tear up absolutely every time, it just hits me so hard. It's beautiful, idyllic, and was written as a prayer for a nation freshly built...

She danced through the city Feeling so pretty Handing sunshine to one and all Twas the perfect day To dance and to play For it was her birthday, after all