Sparrow 🐦 @Sparrow@awoo.space

@erinbee @binglinhu@mastodon.art

Me too!! As soon as I finish knitting this scarf...

@violetmagician@mastodon.art

That's beautiful. <3

@binglinhu@mastodon.art @ashantifortson@mastodon.art

This is gorgeous! I hadn't thought of doing cross stitch like this before. I'm inspired. C:

Healers & mediators are just as important on the front line as warriors, my dear comrades.

@girlfiend

De nada! C:

@girlfiend

I've always liked that view better, personally. <3

Your photograph is fantastic.

@mawr *Nod* I understand. My former partner did a lot of unofficial crisis intervention for her friends last fall, around the time of the election.

We went together to the trans group at Davis the day after the election, actually, just to be around other humans in similar situations. The gender group is housed in the women's center, and down the hall there was a group for undocumented women. Everyone was crying. It was a scary time.

@mawr

Those are beautiful bikes! How awesome. :D

And yes, I absolutely will. Idk if a trip like that will happen any time soon; I'm definitely too broke to travel for a while. But I've also been wanting to visit the Pacific Northwest for a few years now. I haven't seen Oregon or Washington at all.

@mawr

My current job through a school district offers a lot of free online trainings. One of them was for conflict deescalation, which is just such a widely useful skill.

@mawr Yuppp. ^^;

That makes a lot of sense. Hmm, that's another line of training that I feel like could be useful in the broader "life skills" category. I had friends from college who worked at a suicide crisis line as their first "psychology job". I think a job like that would have been too emotionally overwhelming for me at the time, but looking back those are definitely skills I could use in my professional and often personal life.

@mawr

That makes sense. Although my career of working in special education is suuuper different, it's just as steeped in CA politics & bureaucracy, so I can relate on that level.

Do you yourself have a motorcycle?

Awww thanks, you're super rad too! <3 Well I'll just have to make a point to say hi if I ever visit Washington. ^^

@mawr That makes sense. It sounds like you did the absolute best you could have done in the given situation, and sometimes it's just not possible to save a life.

I'm glad you were able to take a life lesson away from that situation. I considered mentioning that in my last response, but I personally get frustrated when someone outside of the situation puts an inspirational spin on my own trauma. It sounds preachy coming from the outside. So I didn't want to overstep there.

@mawr

That sounds like an extremely traumatic experience. I'm so sorry you went through that. :( Most people are never put in a situation like that.

On the other hand, working as a motorcycle teacher sounds like an incredibly cool job. I keep forgetting you used to live in California. Too bad our timelines here didn't overlap!

@mawr Hey friendo! I'm sorry about your shoulder. ✨​ *sends healing sparkles* ✨​

Ooh, nice! That's really smart. What led you to get your CPR cert in the first place?

This is my first time as an adult. I had some kinda babysitting CPR in middle school, but this is the full package, with first aide too. I'm doing it for work, but honestly it's a lot of useful life skills that I wish I'd gotten earlier.