The Day of Laughter and Sadness

Spirituality🕉️ Science⚛️ Balance ☯️

[lava-lamps-forever]

[you-are-another-me]

[traditional-chinese-art]

近代 陶冷月 月圓圖 軸

Title: Full Moon

Artist: Tao Lengyue (Chinese, 1894–1985)

Date: 20th century

Culture: China

Museum Description:

Tao was from a family of scholars who trained him in Chinese and Western painting methods. His individual mode of expression combines Eastern and Western techniques, and he exhibited frequently to popular approval in the 1930s and 1940s.

[you-are-another-me]

[cosmicdayglow]

Being nonbinary is like: I’m masc in a dyke way and femme in a twink way

[lycanthrop-ee]

i think everyone needs to get into wildlife identification it's like a minigame for real life

[universetalkz]

“Energy transfer is real.

Once you learn your worth, you don’t exchange it with just anyone.”

~B. Vigil

[welele]

Se canceló la fiesta.

[sd-devil]

[godshideouscreation]

…cactus… by d mesa 

[x1ostboy]

me to me: wow, you’ve got issues, pal

[you-are-another-me]

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

The two primary human genders are actually Hunter and Gatherer and they have nothing to do with what's in your pants.

[nneilperry]

no offense but i do not have time for ppl that have no emotional depth and don’t even attempt to understand themselves or others

[everythingstarstuff]

Samira Ingold

[teathattast]

[tunashei]

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

[uglyfruit]

[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say "It's so hot and the sky's so blue", "I want people to know me", "but it's so hard to tell them". ]