Lily says mask up! It's not over yet.
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Good news-Bad news post: Bad news 1st —- after 28 years of training camp rejection notices from the @packers (in spite of Mel Kiper’s letters of recommendation), I’ve decided to stop pursuing my dream of becoming the next great @nfl Tight End - & while this chapter may be closed, I’ll continue to bench press small cows, in case they decide they need my services on the D-line. Good news —- after a year of very limited #modeling opportunities, the #covid_19 pandemic has provided a silver lining. I’ve been invited to several #photoshoots for pro-masking campaigns. Thanks @mngovernor for mandating the masks; I’ve been featured in 2 campaigns already (Outer Mongolia & Siberia’s North-Central territories) & am now doing #headshots for a #scottish campaign, as I’m a big fan of Scottish Highlander cattle & Scotch. The photographer tells me less is more, in terms of how much skin/face is showing, so winter wear is a plus for me, I guess 🤔 St Andrew’s House/Secretary Freeman hasn’t given us the details yet but it sounds like the posters will be plastered all over cattle barns, in the stalls, sounds nice. I’m ready for the next campaign - maybe @thestateofsuperior or lower @myescambia (before the spring-breakers hit town) are looking to spread the word about #masking - #imdown Hit me up. #diamondlkphotography #modellife #scottishhighlander #maskupmn #sota #goodnewsbadnews #notpaulcoffman #gopack #wearamask #diamondlkomneity (at Diamond Lake Bistro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ9MosqHl5N/?igshid=t0fq4mwlu42u
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Over the weekend, we safely said goodbye to a select group of friends. Some were virtual; others, socially distant. We are very excited for our next chapter together but also deeply saddened that we can't take those we love with us. Meet Hugo, our house gnome! He's handmade by the talented @lexitrue. #goodbyemayseemforever #movingsoon #ontobiggerandbetterthings #goodbyeminnesota #hellonorthcarolina #gnome #housegnome #maskupmn #wewillmissallofyou (at Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-1T3whspr/?igshid=d53ty6zdsee8
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A little reminder to keep collecting those take out menus , apps, and websites for your favorite local restaurants so you can order to -go and support them when they really need us here in Mpls & St. Paul! @groundswell_mn 😋. Share your go-to to-go spot and what your ordering below! 📷 @tasha.dahl . . . . #ordertogompls #ordertogostpaul #supportmplsresturants #supportstpaulresturants #mnfoodies #mncovid #maskupmn😷 #maskupmn #eatdrinkdishmpls #tsgmplsvol5 (at Minneapolis–Saint Paul) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH0nWVJBMO0/?igshid=nbng2f542ayv
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Minnesota Twins: Be a good teammate and #MaskUpMN!...
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Matchey Matchey. Covid protected babies + matching pjs. Thanks grandma Sharon! #covidbabies #maskupmn😷 💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDc3qO9HU2Co7TQ3oy3sMOY3RNIbW_TN7RMGRY0/?igshid=iecfxd2eboap
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“Fatigue,” Jill Kandel
I’m on the Day with No
Groceries day of the two-week cycle
which means I’m off to buy veggies and
you’d think I’d be used to my long-mandated mask
which makes it hard for me to understand what others
are saying and also sticks to my face as my breath gradually
fogs up my glasses already smeared from putting on and taking off
this, my handsewn slightly crooked mask, all the while trying to retain some semblance
of put-together-ness which went out the window some time ago and belongs
in the land of long forgotten things like hugs and real-life visits
and shared smiles that can actually be seen, dimple
to dimple, but what’s a person supposed to do
except cry, cry for my sweet friend battling
brain cancer and I can’t go visit him, his
systems shrouded in compromise
and Covid
restricting visits even from his
wife—depending on the hospital the clinic
the treatment the day and the hour—from going inside
with him and sitting beside him in his pain and his confusion, his veiled
hope and pallid suffering, and my other friend who just happens to live in the same city,
who placed her mother into a nursing home for people with dementia
the day before the nursing home shut to outside visitors, daughters included,
even daughters of newly admitted mothers who will go on to catch
Covid and die in that brand-new shining facility blanketed
with so much hope just two months earlier,
so even though I want to harangue
and childishly rage
joining in
the chorus of people
on Facebook and Twitter who hate
this politician and that party, smugly promoting
one cover-up or another, the wearing of masks (#MaskUpMN #WearADamnMask)
or not wearing of masks (#IwillNOTComply #NoMaskSelfie) I can’t join
in because it’s not that I’m really angry or mad or feel rant-ish,
it’s that it just keeps going on and on and on and on
into a future that predicts more and longer and still
here tomorrow and into the fall
and even the winter, and
I’m tired,
tired of being heartsore,
tired of listening to my friend
a hospice nurse who can’t hold her dying
patients’ hands and is trying to Zoom into their lives
as if she’s real, as if she’s there when in reality she could be a thousand
miles away, a woman on a screen and some days a screen is just not enough
to wrap around our sorrow and that’s what screams out to me, the grief, the longing,
the loss of what I used to know, the loss of who I used to be, and more
than that, the disappearance of who we used to be, how we
used to walk so carefree, so bold and vibrant
through this our now curtained
and weary world.
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) Sometimes we go on donut heists - we ended up w/ a box from A Baker’s Wife. We do a Who’s on 1st type act but even more non-sensical - then grab the donuts while everyone is doubled over laughing 😏& head for the exit )( & III Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee, the girls love that life aquatic, swimming in the sea - or lake (“... we have a pond, in the back, we have a pool, & a pond, a pond would be good for you - natural spring...”) )V they got a little plant life in the swimming area, out Wayzata way - I’m gonna speak to the mayor about this V Son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a son... of a sailor - Viking type VI & VII “Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day that I die” 315th St & Gull Ave. VIII It’s for you #phoneafriend IX Roger; Roger - he’s taken over the day-to-day Bistro operations since Biggie said goodbye. Roger takes a hands off approach in his management style. X I do not know this dog, nor do I know the man who was driving the truck in which this happy pooch was riding, but that’s the look of pure joy. #luckydog #luckyman #dodgeram2500 #diamondlkgirls #diamondlkphotography #atthebeach #summersummer #maskupmn #payphone #iowa #thedaythemusicdied #andthebandplayedon #swimmingswimming #lakelife #sota #mpls #dogsday #werestillhere (at Hennepin County, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEFpc8lnxge/?igshid=15yx6mkycovn
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#goodbyemayseemforever // The world may have changed but meeting Jenna at "our place" has not! #cannonbellesicecream #cannonfalls #cannonbelles #icecream #smallbusiness #supportlocalbrand #raspberrysorbet #maskupmn (at CannonBelles Coffee and Ice Cream) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH6NsIBhvsN/?igshid=12mpagx1vd2th
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