bedhead

[narcotic]

“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Psychiatrist, 1926-2004)

[quotemadness]

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

David O. Mckay  (via quotemadness)

[rememberwehadthestars]

I’m sorry – is there an interview happening? I’m transfixed by this. 

Youtube 

Gifs made by me

[reverseracism]

On “Cancel Culture”

People who are actively “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.

[reverseracism]

On “Cancel Culture”

People who are actively “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.

[redrola]

[jflaflanotes-deactivated2024012]

Relying on a half-century-old study is less than ideal, but necessary: Few sociologists study looting specifically. But interviews with a half-dozen experts on protests and social movements provide some insights into looters’ motivations. For one thing, looters and peaceful protesters aren’t typically the same people. Dana Fisher, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, has studied protests for 20 years, and she says it’s rare for peaceful protesters to start stealing and setting fires at random. People flock to the sites of protests with different motivations, and those who want peace tend to stay peaceful. “I’ve never seen somebody come in who’s peaceful and then it’s like, Hey, they just broke that window over there. I’m going to now start looting,” she told me. Those in the looting group also have varied motivations. In their 1968 study, Dynes and Quarantelli note that vandalism during protests focuses on objects and buildings that are “symbolic of other values.” For example, people are more likely to attack symbols of authority—such as the CNN building or police cars—than apartment buildings. In this way, some of the looting is a lashing-out against capitalism, the police, and other forces that are seen as perpetuating racism. “Widespread looting, then, may perhaps be interpreted as a kind of mass protest against our dominant conceptions of property,” Dynes and Quarantelli wrote. It is a “bid for the redistribution of property.”

Why People Are Looting at George Floyd Protests - The Atlantic (via juliaflafla)

[likeitaughtyou]

[its-kyleen-bitchh]

imagine slow dancing to this w the girl you love in your kitchen.. pure heaven

[ailurophile-xx]

Sex

[000yellow000]

this mix will never get old ever ever

[smashface96]

@smokingsunflower

[eli-vit]

[vladworksjustfine]

He MURDERED THIS

[calmandtalented]

BRUH

[utwo]

Cabin

© shayd johnson

[lapalabradecristo-deactivated20]

[olearypoetry]

[littlemissconceptions]

“It is often difficult for us to do things because they are so very different from what we are used to, not because the thing itself is particularly difficult.”

—

- On Behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 342

I think I’ve shared this before, but it’s a good reminder…

[littlemissconceptions]

I used to....

wow….

The past few weeks have just had so many little reminders of people and things and places and etc etc etc that used to leave me with warm fuzzy feelings…things I used to be and do for my self. Not that I don’t have that anymore, but things are just different - I resent the idea that one must give up what (/who) one now has as if that is the reason why things are different (as opposed to a different life stage etc).

But yeah….my old business, my blog, old people that I was closer to…everything passes, and it is so swift and yet so slow….like if you looked at a graph of yourself every day, nothing would really seem that different, but if you look at yourself over a 5 year period, you would note major shifts….

everything is weird. 

I am grateful but tired, and I want a holiday. 

In general, I miss.

[olearypoetry]

[6i]

it takes years to develop your craft. do not romanticize the idea of an ‘overnight success’. be a student. grow organically. get really good. hate your work. start over. find new ways to express the same ideas. the student becomes the master. your time will come.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“You’re complicated. You need someone who gets that about you.”

—

Lev Grossman

[olearypoetry]