sweet as sugarcane

abbey, 26, toronto, artist, romantic

[swagvo1d]

[nephritebabie]

the cycle of life

[webrelic]

Francisca Feuerhake

[aclsd]

hey world, i’m back

[your-tires-are-too-cold]

you know at this point i think its pretty safe to say that none of us, not one single person, had 2020 vision

[midvalkyrie]

On the 50th Anniversary of Scooby-Doo let us celebrate the musical group of goddesses known as the Hex Girls (x)

[trovia]

“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”

— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via mgrable)

[k-k-armadillo]

[discocalico]

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig

[juliamichaelsarchive]

“Let’s continue to reach out and lift each other up, God bless you, thank you so much!” Lizzo wins Best Pop Solo Performance at the 62nd Grammy Awards.

[nachts]

wildflower honey soap ♡

[deqdyke]

“It is not uncommon in the Bible, and in Jewish life, for people to be given new names, even during their adult years. Although for most of his life, Abraham’s name was Abram, subsequently the letter hei was added, a symbol from G-d that Abraham ‘shall be the father of a multitude of nations’. Even now, when a person is very sick, his or her Hebrew name is sometimes changed to make it harder for the Angel of Death to find the person. Sometimes the name Hayyim, the Hebrew word for life, is added to the sick person’s name.”

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy

[niacinamides-deactivated2020010]

not the sound bites of reading that i usually post but god this made my skin crawl, esp the part abt the lights/hiding smth his partner was looking for. from “why does he do that” by lundy bancroft

[korrasera]

Jesus christ that’s horrible. Some of those tactics are literally straight out of Gaslight, the play that we get the term from.

To be clear, what I’m saying here is that it’s horrific that these abusers would do this to their victims because it so perfectly replicates one of the more disturbingly realistic and abusive relationships that’s ever been explored in fiction.

[queermachmir]

“It is easy to love your neighbor. It is difficult to love the stranger. That is why the Torah commands us only once to love our neighbor, but on thirty-six occasions commands us to love the stranger.

A neighbor is one we love because he is like us. A stranger is one we are taught to love precisely because he is not like us. That is the Torah’s repeated and most powerful command.”

A Letter in the Scroll, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

[1-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

only time ive ever felt loved was when i was eating a red berry parfait and walking to the library but a girl ran smack into me getting us both covered in berries then she grabbed my hand and said "ill never be sorry enough, but you look so beautiful" and she ran away and i just have to live w this empty hole where my heart lay

[1-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

in that moment i really was ready to do any thing if she had held onto my hand and ran in to traffic i wouldve followed like a lost puppy smeared in red sugar entranced as persephone was to the pomegranate i wouldve died right there with out a second thought and i couldnt even fault her for beguiling me so, in that moment, love was so easy ; it was blameless

[kitty]

[mysticplaces]

Handprints in Indian Cave | Kodachrome Basin State Park, UT

photography by Jerry Ray