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I definitely scrolled too long

If you aren’t familiar with the social media app, Nextdoor, it’s where people post in their neighborhoods about lost pets, small and big crimes (mostly small); ask for recommendations for services, etc. National news and politics are prohibited.

But there is still plenty of local weirdness and what-the-fuck posts to keep a bored writer entertained. We are not even a week into the New Year, and it has already begun:

The grumpy woman I will call “River,” who continued a conversation that began in her head: People need a reason to come here: Work, family, retirement etc. We don’t need drifters.

Apparently itinerant cowboys have infiltrated her neighborhood, robbing saloons and whatnot.

I had to check her profile: Calling all Mystics. Would anyone be interested in starting a group? Meditation guided, pendulum dowsing, Soul Writing, Reiki energy treatments and tuning fork healing.

I know enough about cultural history to recognize a California transplant from the 1990’s. She definitely has a wooden porch with dusty wind chimes hung from bare rafters. Like most people who end up alone in their old age, she is both stuck in the era where she was most relevant, and gone a bit sideways, fearful and generally unhappy.