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[dragonlady7]

some point, but someone has beat me to it, bless you someone, the mountain goats, john darnielle, three potatoes, hope

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john “the mountain goats” darnielle’s 2021 new year’s eve twitter thread, for those who missed it

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The Mountain Goats

so I was washing potatoes last night when I got excited it was just one of those moments , you know . I was getting dinner together and I looked at the ingredients coming together on the counter and I thought to myself , and said aloud , “ Hell yes , I have three potatoes ” living with me means having to develop a robust tolerance for hearing a guy occasionally cry out aloud : saying , for example , “ Hell yes , I have three potatoes ”

but over and above my everyday state of excitement about the ten trillion small things that ease the path a little – colors , shades , sounds , flavors , sensations , moods , fleeting thoughts , moments of transcendence when you’re very lucky – I had one of those moments of gratitude to have food . and not just the food but a counter to prep it on and a stove for cooking but it wasn’t just the food and the kitchen and the comforts of home , either it was me standing at the stove in a house where I’m safe . got here on my own two feet . had a lot of help . plenty of points where I wouldn’t have bet on the outcome . now I have three potatoes , you know ?

here’s the thing some of you reading this are in houses where you’re not safe all the time , and I know it some of you are day - to - day with any of a thousand different troubles and on any given day you feel like you might buckle maybe you’ve felt like that a lot of times over the past couple years . A lot of people have . some people have felt that way who’d had some preparation , and some people have found themselves navigating scary , unfamiliar straits

but if you’re reading this right now you managed to make it work . maybe it doesn’t feel like it worked all that well , maybe you feel like you’re coasting across the goal line with no fuel at all left in the tank , but here you are here you are . having found some way to nourish yourself through it . look at the calendar , look at the clock . you sustained yourself through this . maybe you got sick , maybe it was real bad . maybe some things got better and maybe they got worse . but give yourself the gift of a long look in the mirror

look at the person hard , uncertain times , in days of sickness everywhere , will see another year that’s the person who will do it again , and to that person , over and over , I say , loud enough for the neighbors to hear , Hell yes , hell yes , hell yes , hell yes , hell yes from all of us here at Mountain Goats Central Command a thank you for seeing us through 2021. it was so good to see you in the flesh again . stay safe . trust yourselves . we will see one another through to safer times

this year’s New Year’s Eve thread is dedicated to that one guy who’s mad about people wishing one another happy new year : may he never know why people actually do it and may the rest of us , collectively never forget it / thread] (Your picture was not posted)