spreading the cellove

Hey, I'm Brittany! I believe in using music as a power for positive transformation in the world, which is why I am pursuing music as a graduate student in cello performance. I want to use my voice to help others find happiness.

[chessys]

the phrase daddy issues makes me so mad like no this isnt some ‘issue’ we have its a system of neglect and emotional incompetence thats excused and encouraged in men and then somehow reflects badly on young girls for being lost and im so mad

[feminismandhappiness]

The man fails as a father and we laugh at the neglected girl

[books-in-order]

Good girl teaches kids there’s nothing to be scared of from an EKG

[llovinghome]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[only1600kids]

“If you work in retail make a fake e-mail and write an e-mail to your boss/store praising yourself. Works like a charm and will likely save you from the next round of cuts.”

— Life Hacks For People With No Moral Compass (x)

[wildflowerinn]

[crazymusicianpoop]

When your teacher tells you to tone down the vibrato you had to build from the ground up when you found out you learned it wrong a couple years ago:

[sleepeys]

me: im so glad im finally home!!! now i can draw stuff and make the things i want and be productive and-!!!!

me, being home:

[thedramaandart]

[kookeybird]

[bumblebeebats]

Cinematic parallels

[magen-ruth]

Artworks by children around the world installed at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The project aims to enliven the facade of the synagogue where 11 Jewish worshippers were killed by a gunman last October.

hello I did not need my emotions today ;a;

[everythingfox]

Sukiicat

[glumshoe]

When I studied abroad, I thought my host family just had difficulty pronouncing my name. They didn’t try very hard before deciding that they’d just call me Brahim and be done with it.

This kept happening no matter where I went in Morocco. Even fluent English speakers decided to give me alternative names, and I just shrugged it off as the consequence of one of the syllables being very unusual in Arabic.

That is, until one day I was talking to a shopkeeper in the souk and he asked me my name. I gave him my English one, and explained that I also answer to Brahim (and Daud, and… more than I can remember). He laughed hysterically and looked shocked, calling his friend over from the back of the shop.

“Tell him your name,” he said excitedly. I did so.

The other man’s face cycled through several expressions very quickly—surprise, anger, suspicion, and then exasperation when he realized his friend had set me up.

They very kindly explained to me that my name spoken with a Moroccan accent sounds very much like an Arabic profanity, and that I should definitely introduce myself as Brahim or give an alternative English name when meeting new people, because shaking hands with strangers and saying “Hello, I’m Fuck Your Mother’s Religion” is not a greeting that will win me many friends.

So. Brahim it was.

[glumshoe]

Another fun story: when I forgot the word for “egg” during dinner and attempted to compliment my host mother’s soft-boiled “Ibn Al-Dajaj”.

Son of the chicken.

[b00k-freak]

When I was working at a Thai restaurant one summer I heard the guys in the kitchen talk/yelling (it’s a kitchen, so… loud) and I thought I heard my name so I stuck my head through the door and asked if they’d called me, and they all stopped and stared for a really long moment and then started laughing like crazy. Turns out my name sounds exactly like the Thai word for garbage.

[glumshoe]

Language barriers: a source of unlimited hilarity since the evolution of vocal cords.

[systlin]

I saw a thing and thought it seemed like something you might find cool

-This is GENIUS-Systlin-

[femaille]

She’s a genius! How cool!

[neverthere12345]

[thepunchdrunkpoet-deactivated20]

When i was a kid, a creep tried to lure me away with him in Walmart. I said I’d have to ask my mom (who was on the other side of the store), then went to the nearest lady. An elderly black woman. I hugged her and said VERY loudly: “Mommy! This man says he knows you from church and that he has puppies outside! Can i go?” She said “no baby, you stay with me” And i just nodded and walked away with her as every able bodied person nearby converged to kick the creep’s ass.

[thepunchdrunkpoet-deactivated20]

I helped an elderly black lady put a big thing of water in her buggy and she said thank you, baby and hugged me and I nearly cried

[princesscinderhella]

in this house we protect elderly black women at all costs

[vstheworld]

protect them

[rachelkatwalsh]

i am completely in love with the jenna and julien fam so i just had to draw their four furry children!! honestly why watch anything else on youtube when their videos exist 🐕

[whitepeopletwitter]

[storyandasong-deactivated202108]

guess what i learned from a book today