A Storyteller to the Stars

My name is B and I was born to tell stories. Sometimes, I tell stories to the stars, and sometimes they tell me stories back. Allow me to tell you a few.Formerly known as LTMB, but always writing letters to him in my head.    

[thecolorblockcurator]

Dandelion, 2015, Hung Liu

[penamerican]

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue." —Dorothy Parker, born on this day in 1893

[portraitsofboston]

“I just finished my first weaving class and I like the community I’ve found through it. It’s trying to elevate what craft means to people while being true to it as a craft. For example, quilts made by people who need blankets. They don’t have to be high art, but craft is often valued less than design. I remember reading a book where a woman takes her husband’s old suit jacket and makes it into a kitchen mat. The main character thinks it’s really cool and then the woman puts it on the floor, and the main character says, ‘What’s the point of making something beautiful if it’s going to end up dirty and gross?’ But I think that’s the point—that we can introduce beautiful things into our everyday lives in any way we want to. They don’t have to end up in MoMA to be worthwhile.”

[notalkingplz]

[stability]

poetry

[public-rhetoric]

Let them know

[sheeijan-deactivated20250917]

This is a great explanation on why joking isn’t a joke and I need to remember this next time somebody says, “why can’t they take a joke?”. 

[culturenlifestyle]

Abstract Cityscapes by Salavat Fidai

Artist Salavat Fidai produces exceptional paintings that imitate the work of legendary artist such as Van Gogh, and experiments with a wide range of oil on canvas painting techniques and styles. The versatile artist has a diverse portfolio of work, including scenic landscapes which highlight picturesque scenes from around the world; floral portraits of realistic flowers at the peak of their bloom and framed as a still life painting; murky and obscured street scenes which show colors and light melting off the canvas as if from a fractured memory, and other surreal and imaginative subjects.

Fidai’s artworks show a depth of mastery and an ability to summon emotion and respect from reserved paintings to a distinctive audience. Find his work in his Etsy shop.

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[astorytellertothestars]

Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy in particular stuck with him. He was nine years old, with an alcoholic mother and an absent father. Each day, he would arrive at school with the exact same sandwich: two slices of bread with nothing in between. At home, there was no other food available, and no one to make any. Even so, Garmezy would later recall, the boy wanted to make sure that “no one would feel pity for him and no one would know the ineptitude of his mother.” Each day, without fail, he would walk in with a smile on his face and a “bread sandwich” tucked into his bag.

New Yorker, The Secret Formula for Resilience 

Oh man. That’s heartbreaking. 

[kirknspock]

You know, when somebody has a magnificent head of hair – that, honestly, when I was nineteen I would have loved to have had - and they shave it all off… I feel that somehow they’re kind of infringing on my territory. [x]

[history-of-fashion]

1801 Marie-Denise Villers - Portrait of a young woman, drawing. Thought to be a portrait of the artist herself.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

donald trump supporters like the 70-year-old because he “has no filter.”

in exit poll after exit poll, republican primary voters have cited trump’s willingness to “tell it like it is” as a major reason — if not the predominant reason — why they voted for him. 

what this actually seems to mean is that they appreciate his willingness to insult and degrade minorities without fear of reprisal. 

he is not “telling it like it is.“ 

that would imply truthfulness — and require him to admit that violent crime rates are still lower than they’ve been in decades

that black people are not the biggest perpetrators of homicide against whites

that most undocumented mexican immigrants are not, in fact, rapists 

and that islam — a religion that comprises 1.6 billion people worldwide — is not an existential threat to the u.s.

but that is not what trump and his supporters want. 

they want carte blanche to express their bigotry without consequences, plain and simple.

and on july 21, when trump accepted the presidential nomination, the republicans made him the face of their party.

trump and his supporters have agreed to a dark pact of sorts

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[everydaylouie]

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[beeslybee]

this.. this is the type of high quality content I want on my blog.

[litafficionado]

Abbas Kiarostami[1940–2016]

[inothernews]

Welcome to Jupiter.

ANNOUNCER at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, upon the entry of the Juno spacecraft into orbit around the largest planet in the solar system.  Juno, a solar-powered probe, will now conduct a 20-month investigation of the Jovian giant.

Fuck yeah human beings.

(via the Guardian)

[incorrectshakespeare]

♫ hello from the other siiiiiiiiiiide ♫

King Hamlet to Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV (via incorrectshakespeare)

[astorytellertothestars]

Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome

How Canadian hockey moms, poker buddies and neighbors are adopting Syrians, a family at a time.

Nice to read after a hard day at work. 

[hubrisisterminal]