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and yeah I came out swinging

[ghostparties]

“millions of flower petals erupt from a volcano, covering an entire village” - (via sunnyskyz, with photos by nick meek)

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how is this real

[shencomix]

[southeastasianists]

Google doodle celebrates birthday of Malayan heroine Sybil Kathigasu

The illustration is a whimsical one; a young woman standing in the doorway of an old pre-war shophouse. A serene picture, you’d hardly associate it with pain and torture.

Yet the subject of today’s Google doodle, Sybil Kathigasu, is most well-known for surviving torture under the hands of the Japanese during the Japanese Occupation of Malaya.

She was a Eurasian nurse who, together with her doctor husband, supplied medicine, medical services and information to the resistance forces in the area around the Perak district of Papan where they lived until they were arrested by the Japanese in 1943.

Kathigasu was interrogated and tortured but she did not give up information about the men she had helped. Not even after the Japanese soldiers tied her seven-year-old daughter Dawn and hung her from a tree while ants bit her!

She was finally thrown into a Batu Gajah jail where she stayed until Malaya was liberated from the Japanese at the end of World War II in 1945.

Kathigasu was then sent to Britain for medical treatment and it was there she wrote her memoir No Dram of Mercy. She received the George Medal for bravery — the only Malayan woman to be awarded — but succumbed to her injuries several months after in 1948.

She was only 48 when she died. There is a road named after her in Ipoh and the clinic in Papan has been turned into a sort of memorial for her.

No. 74 Main Road, Papan is that shophouse in the Google doodle that celebrates what would have been Kathigasu’s 117th birthday today.

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Unknown heroes.

[humansofnewyork]

(½) “ I don’t think it’s possible to be a medic in a conflict zone and not have something stay with you. Something that you didn’t have before you went. I have the hardest time forgetting this little girl. She was brought to our post one day. Two men ran toward us carrying a bundle of blankets. And they’re yelling in Pashtu. And at first all I can see are these bloody blankets, but then I peel them back, and there’s this little girl inside. She stepped on a landmine while playing soccer and she’s gone below the knee, gone below the elbow, gone below the hand. And everything is seething. And I can smell the flesh. And she’s screaming. But I’m trained to drown it out. I’m trained so well that I almost don’t hear the screaming. I focus on our interventions. Stop the bleeding. Apply tourniquets. Administer the IV. I overdosed her on morphine. I’ll never forget that. I just kept pushing until the screaming stopped. And then a helicopter came and got her. And she lived. And I was fine throughout the whole thing. I was just like a robot. I’d been trained for chaotic situations. But they don’t train you for the aftermath. They don’t train you for when the helicopter has lifted off, and suddenly everything is quiet.”

[litverve]

Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Constance Garnett (via litverve)

[micdotcom]

Yes, you read all of those correctly. Due to economic and political collapse, inflation is soaring in Venezuela. Meaning pasta can cost $300 and eggs $150. Powdered milk though has the most absurd mark up.

[mehreenkasana]

A Generation of Lawyers

Photos of the Pakistani lawyers killed in the Quetta blasts. 

“All, I repeat ALL senior practicing lawyers and barristers died today,” Barkhurdar Khan, a member of the Baluchistan Bar Council wrote. “The number of junior lawyers, who are the sole breadwinners of their homes and who are now unemployed runs into hundreds.” [x]

[onlydadjokes]

I asked my nephew how old his dad was and he replied “six”. I said how can he only be six if you’re six?

He said “because he’s only been a dad since I was born”

[mollywobbles123]

[whatcomicbookguy-blog]

Clear your mind

[nxcroflesh]

[lunarbaboon]

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Comic about exercise from webtoons …. http://www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/lunarbaboon/list?title_no=523

[wnq-anonymous]

I am practicing being kind instead of right.

Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook (via wnq-anonymous)

[archatlas]

At one magical instant the page of a book – that string of confused, alien ciphers – shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; At that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. ~ Alberto Manguel

All images by Steve McCurry

[lunarbaboon]

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[archatlas]

There But Not Jose Dávila

How many buildings around the world have such distinctive designs that simply their outline, and nothing else, is enough to identify them?

Artist Jose Dávila has physically cut out, from photographs, 90 of the world’s most famous and beloved buildings and structures, from ancient marvels to contemporary gems. Long interested in the relationship between built space and physical place, Dávila saw that by focusing on just the silhouette of major architectural works, while still within their immediate environment, their grandeur was heightened beyond their undeniable visual allure. Following in the footsteps of his appropriationist forbears from the 1970s and 80s such as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince, and staking a claim for the hand-produced in today’s digital world, Dávila starts with structures so well-known they’re often taken for granted, and reformats each with a renewed awareness occurring as a result. By cutting the images out by hand, he stays connected to the idea of physically manipulating space—just as architecture itself does.

You can get the book There But Not following the link.

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