Living to Learn 🌻

Lara’s the name, veganism, yoga and running towards happiness is the game. Living that post-grad confusion life ✌🏻Insta: @laraisadaisy

[fluffygif]

Cappuccino paper

[pherfections]

[edinzphoto]

My favourite thing to do in a forest is lie down and look up! The southern rātā on Auckland island is moulded by the wind into a very even canopy. It’s beautiful in the evening light.

#subantarctic #aotearoa #nikonnz #forest #subantarcticislands #heritageexpeditions #aucklandislands #canopy #trees #adventure #wilderness #wildsouth #goldenhour #subantarcticnz #subantarcticadventure @heritageexpeditions #wildnz #crownshyness #naturephotography #nature_perfection #discoverearth #ignature #capturethewild #keepitwild #wildernessculture https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ksOc-pM7I/?igshid=1488i9mufnf1m

[thebashfulbotanist]

Wanted to share this with you guys as this photo shows a great example of crown shyness! Crown shyness is the phenomenon in which fully grown trees of the canopy grow so there’s always some distance between them, creating these channel-like patterns. Nobody’s quite sure why this happens, but damage due to wind, and prevention of shading are the leading hypotheses. 

[parkerwoods]

[gayavatarstyle]

why are we here? just to suffer? every day the Avatar destroys my cabbage cart

[djklmnx]

[fiction-pulpeuse-deactivated202]

I love this.

[popsunner]

Listen, I’m part of the generation that uses humor to cope, I love all the memes about 2020 just as much as you guys do. I laugh at the “we got the real roaring 20′s”, “we wanted 2020 to be a movie but we got the wrong genre”, “we really thought 2020 would be our year” sardonic tweets.

But to the people like me, who really thought 2020 would be their year?

Love, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry you walked into this year with a smile and hope, and that smile immediately fell, and that hope was immediately crushed

I’m sorry that every day there’s something else, I’m sorry that you’re scared, I’m sorry that you’re angry, I’m sorry that you’re tired.

And I know, I know that you’re having a hard time hoping again. Trust me, I know.

But this year, Adam Castillejo became the second person to be cured of HIV

This year, James Patterson art up a fund to help Indie bookstores

This year, scientists finally managed to record the narwhal 

This year, White Storks have hatched the first wild chicks in 600 years

This year, the worlds largest open-air gallery was opened with paintings by individuals with learning disabilities

This year, an eleven year old skateboarder landed the worlds first 1080 degree turn

This year, scientists mapped the entire surface of the moon for the first time ever

This year, Sweden and Austria closed their last coal plants

This year, White Tailed Eagles are spotted flying over England for the first time in 240 years

This year, NASA launched astronauts to a US space station for the first time since 2011

To all the people like me, who thought 2020 was their year: We’re here. We’re alive. The world will grow. The world will heal. Maybe 2020 isn’t our year of stress free fun and memories, but it can be our year to learn and stand up and fight, so that next year? We get everything we hoped for.

Don’t give up, don’t leave. There’s a world waiting for you.

[thepowerwithin]

“Perhaps one of the biggest challenges of life is creating the perfect balance between all aspects that exist with in your world.”

— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

[blackqueernotables]

Alice Walker: The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. 

[seraphic-diaries]

Important

[ashtreewarrior]

[sunflorally]

your relationship doesn’t have to be toxic to be a bad one. it can be unfulfilling, exhausting, loveless. and someone doesn’t have to be terrible to you for you to leave them. if you aren’t primarily happy in your relationship, you have a valid reason to not be in it. don’t beat yourself up because your situation “could be worse.” if it isn’t what you want, you don’t have to stay in it.

[gemstonedgoddess-deactivated202]

This is great advice for all kinds of relationships.

[thepowerwithin]

“Like the difference between night and day, a particular mindset can truly make all the difference. How does your mind see things?”

— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

[gudeloser]

spent the afternoon pressing flowers!!

[leaflittered]

The sky looked simply ethereal tonight

[allsadnshit]

self help comic yes i cried when i thought of this and drew it immediately

[edinzphoto]

My favourite thing to do in a forest is lie down and look up! The southern rātā on Auckland island is moulded by the wind into a very even canopy. It’s beautiful in the evening light.

#subantarctic #aotearoa #nikonnz #forest #subantarcticislands #heritageexpeditions #aucklandislands #canopy #trees #adventure #wilderness #wildsouth #goldenhour #subantarcticnz #subantarcticadventure @heritageexpeditions #wildnz #crownshyness #naturephotography #nature_perfection #discoverearth #ignature #capturethewild #keepitwild #wildernessculture https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ksOc-pM7I/?igshid=1488i9mufnf1m

[thebashfulbotanist]

Wanted to share this with you guys as this photo shows a great example of crown shyness! Crown shyness is the phenomenon in which fully grown trees of the canopy grow so there’s always some distance between them, creating these channel-like patterns. Nobody’s quite sure why this happens, but damage due to wind, and prevention of shading are the leading hypotheses. 

[skinhorses]

tender quotes:

1.  “The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” (mikko harvey, from “for m,”)

2.  “I still feel like the world is a piece of bread, I’m holding out half to you.” (eileen myles)

3. “Wherever you are it’s okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that’s not how it always looks. That’s not how it’s always going to look. There’s more. There’s always more.” (patrick ness, from “more than this”)

4.  “I was making dinner and I got a message. Go look outside, she said, go look at the sunset. My apartment is small, with four rooms and two windows that don’t see much light so I had no idea. I pulled my coat on and hurried out. I was running to this sunset, suddenly the only thing that mattered. I hurried past the taller buildings to the park and the sky was leaking shades of pink and purple. It was beautiful and fleeting, there one minute and gone the next. I would’ve missed it; I almost kissed it. And so I started thinking, how great it would be to get a nudge, a tap on your shoulder, a moment or two before your life changes. Stop what you’re doing and look around, you’ll want to remember this later. In a minute, you’re going to fall in love.” (kelsey danielle, from “unexpected sunset”)

5.  “Today is a day like any other: twenty-four hours, a little sunshine, a little rain. Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another―why don’t you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.” (mary oliver, from “black oaks”)