String of Streams

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. To be great is to be misunderstood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Follow me @colleengunning

[groundlessness-deactivated20240]

I just want to read a few books per week, learn multiple languages, and a couple of instruments, become more proficient at advanced mathematics, write essays and books, exercise regularly, sleep eight hours per night, eat really healthily, have an active social life including enjoying all of my close relationships, and be really sexy. Is that really so unreasonable

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

Ominous positivity

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

You will be okay. You have no choice.

[jadedsoggy]

Everything will turn out fine. You cannot stop it.

[justabirdy]

You will succeed. It is inevitable.

[paddingtonicon]

[latter-ace-saint]

How to talk to children

This is based on decades of experience as an uncle and as an older brother.

Never forget that children are just as much people as adults are.

Kids 10 years or younger (and sometimes older than that) don’t get sarcasm or irony, so don’t use them.

If a child has difficulty pronouncing a word, don’t copy their misprounciation when speaking to them. They can hear the word just fine. It could sound to them like you’re making fun of them.

(Yes, this means no babytalk)

Don’t be dismissive.

Listen to what they’re saying.

To get on the same eye-level, don’t bend over or squat: it seems condescending. Kneeling or sitting are better.

It should go without saying that you should respect children’s body autonomy. Don’t force affection on them.

Respect children’s emotional autonomy as well. Let them be angry. Let them be sad. Don’t force them to be happy.

Let children like things. Don’t run down the things they like just because you find them cringy.

Don’t think that you know better.

To children, adults are giants. Be a big friendly giant.

Don’t stifle children’s curiosity.

Don’t stifle children’s enthusiasm.

To quote Sondheim, “Be careful the words you say, children will listen.”

Don’t look down on children.

[jadedaceofspades-deactivated202]

When I worked at the before and after school program, I had all elementary school ages and this list is perfectly defined how to talk to kids.

One thing I want to add is: let kids just play. Let them use their imagination. If they’re running too fast but they think they’re sonic the hedgehog, just tell them “be a slower sonic so you don’t fall down.”

[mouser26]

If you have to have contact regardless of if they want to or not (ie holding hands /carrying them in a parking lot) explain why you are keeping contact and when it will stop  “I know you don’t want to hold my hand but cars can not see you, I can’t let you go till we get to [destination].”

Note…you will probibly screw this up, but that doesn’t mean you should stop trying. 

[bishreksual]

y'all, i have something incredibly important to share

[bishreksual]

LOOK AT HIM

BABY KERMIT

[key-change]

- Sunday in the Park with George

[shiropoint]

This is mesmerizing to watch.

[fuu-dog-treats]

actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this

[ask-ickle-mod]

[thatsthat24]

Holy………..shmokes…….

[mozzarella-shenanigans]

Oh?? My god??

[traitor]

THis is fucking amazing

[stars-bean]

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

[careens]

It Is Wintertime

[hotboyproblems]

bug: hi

me: Aren't You Supposed To Be Dead.

[dumbbadger]

[childhoodnostalgias]

90’s inflatable furniture

[thetrippytrip]

“What’s tea heaven, what’s teaaaa”

[alexbelvocal]

Y'all soooooo annoying

[drugfriendly]

“Do not be fucking gay” 😂😂 bitch I’m weak af

[ariesgoddess92]

it says in the bible “do not be fucking gay”…….“im just playing i didn’t even write that shit” 💀

[trippy-von-trapp]

“God?” “Correct. Listen.” ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[findyourbeard]

Bless the internet

[golldenthoughts]

😂😂😂

[turing-tested]

god fuckin nerfed me by giving me depression and the moment my brain starts making dopamine again im going to climb my way to heaven and kick his fuckin ass

[fuzzprobably]

the chaotic energy in this post is on par with that one dril tweet

[turing-tested]

that’s because unlike dril i intend to keep my promises

[uncutgems]

One of the prettiest moments in winter is when the sun starts to come out again in like february/march but it’s still cold but that doesn’t matter because everything feels light and fresh and you walk outside without freezing because the sunshine is warming your face and everything is starting to wake up

[wistful-giselle]

just thinking of how our meaning or purpose in life is merely to experience. eating an orange segment, hoping for snow, being in love, returning over and over to one painting, stepping outside for the full moon, submersion in water, having a favourite colour, knowing beauty, feeling alone, feeling connected, feeling longing… it is enough. 

[comradekatara]

catch me in 50 years rambling incoherently to a crowd of concerned onlookers like. and ANOTHER thing i love about aang’s journey is that once he gets out of the iceberg, all of true masters are also kids. he doesn’t really learn waterbending from pakku; everything important he learns from katara. he looks for an earthbending teacher in bumi, but is denied; then he tries taking lessons at master yu’s academy, but it does not go well at all; it is only upon seeing toph that he realizes that she is the only one who can teach him earthbending. jeong jeong’s approach to fire frightens and traumatizes him, but with zuko he learns to appreciate the element for its warmth and vitality. aang’s masters were all kids like him because only the new generation, still inspired and idealistic and open, could ever truly shape and improve the mistakes of the old, too rigid and inflexible to truly shape the world in a new and better vision. those kids saved the world not only because they had to, but because they wanted to. 

[im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh]

In 50 years:

[books-n-quotes]

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw

[frogitivity2]

Please take good care of them!