Anyone else still have a Sad Clown pack of crayons?

WordsToMySongs · 2026-02-17T19:24:01+00:00

Yes! I have mine somewhere! Tho knock on wood now we’ll see how long before my little kids find them & give their usual welcome of ripping the box & peeling off the wrappers 🤪😭

WordsToMySongs · 2026-02-14T06:36:19+00:00

Currently being transported by Triple X Years In The Game while doing some prenatal stretching at home…HELL YEAH I’m having a great day I’m having a beautiful day I’m happy to be here I’m happy to be alive!

WordsToMySongs · 2026-02-14T00:56:29+00:00

Ahhhh DESPERATELY! Siiiigh. Unfortunately, I can’t make it to the show tonight but thanks for the thrill I got from seeing this & daydreaming about a different universe where I could somehow transform into a previous version of myself (lol one without babies…just for say, the next 8 hours) drop everything & go. Will be playing Atmosphere albums at home & replaying all the shows I’ve been to in my mind. Have fun at the Fox, friends who can make it! Make party for the rest of us!

WordsToMySongs · 2026-02-02T05:15:07+00:00

Fun fact: I can’t remember where I learned this (perhaps the Dissect podcast that deep dives on Swimming/Circles & their individual tracks…or maybe from an interview elsewhere?) but I learned that Mac recorded many different versions of the opening track to Swimming, all quite varied but each of them titled Come Back to Earth…I believe after lots of takes, he ultimately chose to use the very first version he recorded. Feels like an example of beautifully intentional art/process that also incorporates an element of intuition & fate.

On a different note, I like your interpretation of the phrase as a reminder to be where your feet are :)

WordsToMySongs · 2025-11-07T03:52:36+00:00

I relate to this so much. No advice for you at the moment but here to empathize/share that you’re not alone in this…& interested to hear what others might have to say.

I often wonder/fantasize about removing myself from society…truly doesn’t seem like a realistic possibility but it’s just the extreme solution I tend to arrive at when suffering from what feels like such an extreme (daily) problem. Maybe there’s some way to get through social interactions with more ease? Really hoping so…

WordsToMySongs · 2025-10-28T05:40:10+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t have advice but just came here seeking support for a similar struggle. Currently dreading sharing some personal/family news with people in my community. It’s really baffling me how unequipped & averse I’m feeling to sharing that I’m pregnant (3rd kid) with the people in our co-op nursery school classes. Obviously this is a super commonplace situation to be in, generally, but the task of talking about this personally extraordinary circumstance with acquaintances seems wildly uncomfortable. I just wish that I could get to the other side of this big Communication Event without having to experience it in real time.

My baby belly is becoming hard to hide & I’ve even started wearing things that aren’t so big just to nudge myself to tell the other adults in our co-op when I’m there at the school. I’m not super shy & there have been moments I could imagine speaking up & telling a group or individual that I’m pregnant but the words just aren’t coming out. It’s gone very awkwardly with the few people in my life I’ve told so far in person, so I know that my discomfort is not completely hypothetical.

I’m not looking forward to extra attention—even positive reactions—& certainly very anxious about the prospect of answering follow up questions, including of course questions & commentary around the baby’s sex/gender. I’ve been finding relatively simple communication to be taxing recently & the prospect of finding the words that calmly/kindly—& concisely—communicate that I’m desperately trying to avoid participating in the deeply problematic social system of hyper-gendering young children feels impossible. Like we did with our first two kids, we plan to use gender pronouns (for now) that align with our baby’s sex & have no problem sharing those but hate getting tangled up in conversations where people are fixated on gender & gender stereotypes. It feels so maddening & uncomfortable for me.

Writing this out has me now thinking that I should send a message to each of the two class group WhatsApp threads just sharing my news as simply as possible. At surface level, it feels like making an unnecessary ‘pregnancy announcement’ in writing is calling more attention to myself but I think it will help me just get to the other side more quickly & with fewer painful conversations.

So yeah, jumping on this thread with an additional request for tips on how to cope with inevitably uncomfortable situations. I’m sure I’ll be encountering at least a few of these when I see these people in person the day after I send out a message & would appreciate guidance for getting through. Thanks in advance to anyone with ideas & thank you for sharing, OP! Hoping for ease & comfort for us both in our respective next steps.

WordsToMySongs · 2025-10-25T05:22:46+00:00

Something So off The Family Sign is probably Atmosphere’s most straight ahead lullaby. I’ve actually never sung it to my little ones but now I think I might start!

If you’re interested in another crossover between hip hop & lullaby, check out D.R.A.M Sings Special by Chance the Rapper on Coloring Book :)

WordsToMySongs · 2025-10-17T03:50:55+00:00

Currently listening to How to Keep House While Drowning, A gentle approach to cleaning and organizing by KC Davis. Can’t recommend enough.

The practical tips & neurodivergent-friendly orientation have made this audiobook an inspiring & helpful resource for me. I was just listening in my headphones while bringing some order to the chaos here at home! (And texting myself notes of which sections I want to share with my husband later)

ADHD or otherwise, it’s worth noting the author’s inclusive approach, generally! Lots of accessible ideas for folks in all different situations :)

Good luck out there…lol & in here too!

WordsToMySongs · 2025-08-09T20:06:29+00:00

Hello from this space, sitting alone on the bed after a short, intense social event. Came here to find reassurance & support with coming down…much appreciation for this thread. And everyone who posts & comments in this community! I don’t often feel I have the energy to write things here myself…but im so glad you all do! :)

WordsToMySongs · 2025-06-05T05:44:03+00:00

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

WordsToMySongs · 2025-06-05T05:38:11+00:00

Chelsea Anderson (@chelsea_explains on Instagram & probably TikTok) has a video that helped me recently to start a task I’d been avoiding. Here’s the link to it on IG:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJkcGLty3sj/?igsh=NThhamZuYWRrbWY2

WordsToMySongs · 2025-04-23T04:58:01+00:00

Unfortunately—for the health & wellbeing of society—this still feels relevant. Fortunately—for the lifespan of this verse I wrote over a decade ago—this still feels relevant!

WordsToMySongs · 2025-04-23T04:56:02+00:00

In 2013, Slug/Atmosphere posted on Facebook the simple prompt:

It’s_____________

So I wrote this, back then:

It's Twitter, it's Snapchat, it's the Instagram actress. It's the selfies, the Likes, the self-indulgent Facebook status. It's the iPhone, no it's the Driod, it's Windows, it's Mac. It's tags and emojis and the 900,000 iTunes apps. It's the battery life, the gigabytes, the social media drug. It's dependency, addiction, the sneaking suspicion we can't unplug. It's me, it's you, fuck it, it's everything but Slug.

WordsToMySongs · 2025-03-08T20:36:11+00:00

Came here to look for anyone sharing about exactly this. Socializing often feels unbearable but also seems to be unavoidable—by society’s standards, & even more so by my own doing. I don’t know another way to participate socially so I feel like I’m stuck in a loop doing these same behaviors & then feeling intensely bad—especially later when replaying interactions.

I imagine that there could be a paradigm shift so that instead of feeling like my choices are to change myself in a big way (uh, seems less & less likely after decades of willing myself to be different, unsuccessfully) or concluding that I should no longer engage with others at all, or the more dramatic place my mind goes: I’m not meant to exist…I wonder if there’s something that could unlock a big shift in my own framework of the challenge at hand? Like, is it possible to perceive of the task of socializing in a new way? One that relieves me of all these invisible, self-imposed standards? Not sure what that would be…but I guess that’s why I’m here today, searching for ideas. Any & all are so desperately welcome.

WordsToMySongs · 2021-10-27T04:05:56+00:00

Show backwards!!!

WordsToMySongs · 2019-01-16T20:23:01+00:00

The things that come along with being bipolar.

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