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When connecting and understanding the plants and ecosystem that I'm apart of, I often feel exactly like that. That we're just one organism, and I'm connecting with the plants and understanding them just as I would my own body/mind.

It is definitely difficult to convey without sounding psuedo-sciency however I'm aware that I'm tapping into the same wisdom that many indigenous people still do today and have been.

Hey you are lovely and loved

As are you. Thank you for taking time out to write something grand and simple.

#my asks #thank you

You're very pretty! You're also important, valuable, and lovely inside. I hope that you can find it within you to keep going despite everything and that you'll find a bit of happiness in the world that will make you feel it all was worth it

After all these years, I’m just now seeing all of these anonymous messages. Thank you💛 Everything has felt worth it, in the sense that I know I am, this life is, just by it’s being. And that includes us all.

#thank you #my asks #you are worthy #i am worthy

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if beale street could talk; james baldwin

#words #love #james baldwin #!#take care #relationships

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the part of leaving christianity that i'm grieving the most right now is that for my whole life i thought my family's love for me was unconditional. but the truth is i didn't know whether it was unconditional because i always did what they wanted and expected.

like. it is so devastating. and it makes me feel naive, like i should never have told them i was deconstructing. because as soon as they found out i became a problem to be solved. i just needed to come back. and it is exactly this that has justified some of their cruelest behavior towards me. i didn't know they were capable of such cruelty. it doesn't matter what they do to me, how much they verbally abuse me or make me feel like an outsider, as long as i end up back in god's arms. hell theology has utterly ruined my relationship with them, and i don't see it being repaired.

i wanted so badly for them to accept me even if i didn't come back. to know that i'd still be loved and accepted by them. but what was i thinking? sure, they tell me they love me. but i know for a fact they don't like the person i am now. they do not accept who i am. i know exactly what happens when somebody in your circle becomes "lost." you pray for that person to become humbled, that when the time comes for suffering, you pray they turn to god. i know people who actually pray for suffering to fall upon unbelievers so they will turn to god. like they are actively praying for your downfall. you cannot look at a non believer without thinking of hell. and now i see that's how my parents see me. that's why i couldn't have close bonds with people who weren't christian when i was in the sauce. it was unbearable.

anyway. hell theology destroys relationships. full stop. there's no lesson. it's just grief and pain.

marydarkblacknoir

The blue seems eternal.

Virginia Woolf

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Blurry photos of the moon

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Boundaries

You know, it’s almost like, when we overstep our boundaries - things get REALLY WILD.

It’s almost like, the universe is trying to help us see the EXACT line in which our boundaries are.

When did things start going weird?

And maybe, if the universe is so adamant to help us know when we OVERSTEPPED our boundaries, perhaps it’s as wiling to support the creation, maintenance and loving enforcement of them, too…

#hope #boundaries

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Guardians of life: The indigenous women fighting oil exploitation in the Amazon

Felipe Jacome’s set of photos Amazon: Guardians of Life documents the struggles of indigenous women defending the Ecuadoran Amazon through portraits combined with the powerful written testimonies. The words across each photograph are a self-reflection of the lives of women, their culture, history and traditions, and especially about the reasons for fighting oil drilling on their ancestral lands. The color designs framing each portrait use the same natural dyes found in face paint to expand on the symbols and designs that reflect their personalities, courage and struggle. (Read More)

#roots #collective reality

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“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them.”

— Unknown

#encouragement

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no bare minimum, i want the moon and the stars. maybe even a planet at this point.

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"She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others."

— Virginia Woolf, To the lighthouse (1927)