[eeahs]

kingston JA

[nmnmrsz]

my forever mood

[the-joy-of-knowledge]

TED Talks for the New Year

Here are TED Talks that will give you a guide to a successful year

How to learn anything

Power food for the brain

Secret to self-control

Don't be a jerk to yourself

Building your identity capital

Improving your body language

What your future self wants

Saying Yes

Habits of original thinkers

Become the person you can't imagine

Designing the life you want

Be your own life coach

How to talk so that people listen

Curiosity over ambition

Life is your biggest project

How to achieve your most ambitious goals

[soie-lux]

2023 Will Be

Less time online: being present in the moment, not letting online/social media trends influence me in any way. Making the most of each day. Spending more time in nature, admiring the beauty of creation. More time spent on my hobbies, bettering myself, growing into the woman I want to be. Quality time with friends and family

Taking care of my body: pilates throughout the week and walking 4 miles (around 10k steps) as many days as possible. Establishing a healthy sleep schedule. Consuming local, seasonal, and organic produce, grass-fed and free-range animal products, fresh sourdough. Making homemade meals as much as possible.

Stepping out of my comfort zone: not letting fear of the unknown stop me from living an amazing life. Saying yes to new opportunities and trying new things. Exploring parts of the city I've never been to before. Not being scared to travel solo. Making conversation with strangers. Developing new hobbies such as horse riding and painting. Seeing what this beautiful earth has to offer.

Nourishing my soul: starting my day with prayer and gratitude. Walking in obedience to the Lord and putting His will above mine. Spending time in His word daily. Being intentional with my thoughts, words, and actions. Allowing the fruit of the Spirit to influence all things I think, say, and do.

Seeking quality over quantity: getting rid of all the fast-fashion pieces in my closet and slowly but surely replacing them with 100% silk, wool, cotton, linen, and cashmere pieces. Continuing to build my capsule wardrobe. Only investing in luxury pieces when I'm sure they will remain in my closet for years to come. This also applies to my relationships. Contrary to popular belief, we need relationship and community to survive. As long as I'm surrounded with people I love, trust, and care for, that's more than I could ask for. It's the quality, not quantity of close relationship that matters.

[pro-royalty]

Laura Harrier

[deviika]

Richard Siken

[divineexpression]

A lack of relationship skills & unhealed childhood trauma leads to a chaotic recreation of "love" in later relationships. It is the inability to soothe oneself & care for one's own needs (those we wished our parents would have fulfilled) that leads to disoriented romantic relationships - always fighting for what we need. All we wish for is to feel at home in another ones arms. All we find is the roller coaster of connection & separation created by showing up immaturely & not being able to handle inner conflict with grace & patience. The only way to create harmonious & peaceful relationships is by building a home within self & looking at those self sabotaging patterns. All we want is peace, but inside there is still war, so there must be peace first. It starts with being okay about the places where there is war - Acceptance of self.

[n0kiv]

BLACK FARMERS TO BUY FROM INSTEAD OF WHOLE FOODS

ATLANTA Boxcar Grocer Patchwork City Farms Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Ag

BALTIMORE Five Seeds Farms The Flower Factory The Greener Garden

CHICAGO Healthy Food Hub Trinity United Church of Christ Farmers Market (Summer) Your Bountiful Harvest Family Farm

CLEVELAND Chateau Hough Vineyard Rid-All Green Partnership

DMV Afroculinaria Community Farming Alliance Good Sense Farm Three Part Harmony

OAKLAND Afrika Town Community Garden Farms to Grow, Inc. People’s Grocery Phat Beets Produce

DETROIT D-TownFarm

KENTUCKY Barbour’s Farm LLC

LOS ANGELES The Ron Finley Project Sola Food Co-op South Central Farmers’ Cooperative

PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Urban Creators Mill Creek Farm

NYC Black Urban Growers La Familia Verde The BLK ProjeK East New York Farms

PHOENIX Tiger Mountain Foundation

SAN DIEGO City Heights Farmers Market

SOUTHEASTERN US Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network

VIRGINIA Vanguard Ranch Natural Gourmet

NORTH CAROLINA Pine Knot Farms (Hillsborough

[rovkgen]

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[wvterways]

[intimatum]

Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That

[feral-ballad]

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[sundaynightfilms]

The Woman with the Knife, 1969

[amethystbeks]

Excuse me!!! He said a forever ting dis!!

[sturmfalter-deactivated20220117]

Heather Havrilesky, I’m Tired of Being So Nice

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

[ID: excerpt from ‘Transcendental Etude,’ Adrienne Rich

“Homesick for myself,”]

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Learning to be joyous about the complexities of people and their hidden worlds. Relieved that I don’t have to oversee and maintain everything; my only job is to keep it pure on my end. I will never have all of the control nor all of the power nor all of the information. Most of it is beyond words. “Everyone should cultivate their secret garden.” Not taking it personally that I don’t take up all the real estate in their mind and body. Being happy for them and their senses, dreams, desires that exist outside of myself. Choosing to love on the distant days and the close ones. The moon and the river are really both perfect, both gorgeous, and they do two separate things, they go two different places. But they work together and I love the tide