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20, Architecture & Urban Studies Student, Explorer and Tree Hugger

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Never stop praying. No matter how dark or hopeless it may seem, keep your faith.

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Peeling Off Old Paint To Tell Stories Of Palestinian Refugees by street artist Pejac

With these four small interventions I am trying to tell a minimalistic story about the Palestinian refugees in Al Hussein, Amman Jordan.

By removing small areas of the “skin” of the houses I want to transform the paint chipping, produced by the passage of time, in to evocative landscapes and transmit the pride of its inhabitants through the walls.

Al-Hussein refugee camp was originally stablished in 1948 as a result of the Arab-Israeli war.  Source:boredpanda and streetartnews

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by Penguin Kao 

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Surreal Photo Manipulations by Laurent Rosset

Architect and digital artist Laurent Rosset creates sweeping surreal photographic landscapes. He uses much of his own photography to create each image and enjoys discovering how even slight manipulations can vastly change the composition or meaning of a photograph. You can see more of his work on Instagram.

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Flowers at their maximum power of existence…

Gravity | Flower Power, Claire Droppert

These dutch Flower Power series entwines and encapsulates the natural elements of earth, wind and flowers. It demonstrates how these key elements can help to create an image of free forming beauty.

The flowers are captured in the short period of blooming. After that, they are chopped, since they are grown primarily for the bulb. Their existence is dictated by the elements that help to create their power. Witness them at their maximum power!

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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.

Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time (via wordsnquotes)

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A soup kitchen disguised as a restaurant is making a big difference in Kansas City.

The restaurant-style Kansas City Community Kitchen is a completely new way to feed those in need.

Say goodbye to trays, buffets, and waiting in lines to eat at a regular old soup kitchen.

When you step inside the Kansas City Community Kitchen today, a greeter shows you to a table. Volunteer waitstaff takes your order after you’ve had time to look at the menu and see what the culinary team has been cookin’ up. The options are healthier and quite creative, like an episode of Food Network’s “Chopped,” but with the ingredients available to the kitchen that day.

Diners are encouraged to leave reviews of their service and requests for what they’d like to see on the menu. Have health, dietary, or religious-observance needs? No sweat.

“We are trying to flip the photo of what a soup kitchen looks like,” Mandy Caruso-Yahne, director of community engagement at Episcopal Community Services(ECS), told Upworthy. 

But feeding those in need isn’t the only way the kitchen is helping. They’re training others too.

Through the program, students work their way up to cooking in the kitchen and providing suggestions for the menu and dishes they prepare. They develop knowledge and confidence in a variety of ways that help them continue down a path in the food industry once they’re finished with the program.

As one diner named Brian put it, 

“They’re treating me good, like they don’t know I’m homeless.”

And that’s exactly the point.

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This is everything right about food.

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Happy tears

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Archan Nair, Reeha // Day 53 of #365daysofart, 2016

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I want to be the tear you cannot shed, the letter you cannot bring yourself to throw away, the photograph you cannot rip up. Oh, to be something, anything, that you cannot part with. If only.

Noor Shirazie (via aestheticintrovert)

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Oysters make pearls so they can feel better. When a grain of sand or debris gets stuck in their bodies, they ease the pain and irritation by coating it with multiple layers of nacre, the mineral that lines the inside of their shells, and pearl begins to form. Basically, pearls are like blisters, only much prettier. Source

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the best part is not that she makes the shot each time but her lil smile of surprise when she realizes she made it

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she is my hero