the soles of your shoes

nora jane ✌︎ 35 ❧ art, french, & music instructor - early childhood ❧ appalache-acadienne ぺ juive séfarade ✡︎ ⋄ nearly-polyglot 🇫🇷🇮🇪🇮🇱🇰🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ⋄ amateur painter 🎨 ⋄ weird poet ✍🏼 ⋄ dirty hippie 🌱 ⋄ A Sleepy Guy™️ ♊︎/♋︎ 🌞 | ♎︎ 🌘 | ♏︎ 🏹 these are a few of my favorite things: digging in the dirt, convincing children there are fairies, stretching stretching stretching, seeing how many bananas i can put in one smoothie, arguing with tarot cards, forgetting to wash my hair, compulsively repotting plants, raising witch kittens, brewing potions, dusting surfaces, soft blankets on lotioned feet, intuitive paint mixing, staring through stones, cultivating family wherever i go, garlic as potpourri, incense as perfume, davening shacharit at 2 pm, annoying you by taking pictures you’ll want later, crying at the same songs every time, crying while doing yoga, crying over missing pet posters, crying while washing windows, crying in line at the bank, allowing my breath to line up with the river’s, getting a baby to fall asleep, sinking into my wife’s arms, waking up at 3:24 every morning because my house is haunted.

[pixiecaps]

big fan of whatever the youth is doing to torment scientology buildings

[remainsstreet]

[ps1]

Appenzellerland

[marypickfords]

Mary Pickford in Fanchon, the Cricket (1915)

[grrl-germs]

gpoy

[vevechnost]

Megillat Esther (Book of Esther), a caligram bear, drawn in Kaunas, Lithuania, circa 1870 by Rabbi Elijah Shliomovich.

[grrl-germs]

“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.”

— Eartha Kitt (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[oshun67]

Older Black gay men in long term relationships are rarely covered or seen by main stream media.

[snoozy-red-panda]

Here's the article, very well worth the read

[nevver]

Unspoken Conversations: Mothers and Daughters, Rania Matar

[a-lovely-afterthought-deactivat]

I love this and Happy Mother’s Day everybody!

[hughhighlander]

highland hair dryer on high

heilan coo via mullaghderg highlanders

[mushfae]

"SNAIL ON A STUMP" 8X10 ART PRINT by Maura O’Connor — purchase here

[angel-kiyoss]

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

[fierceawakening]

i wonder what they are dreaming about

[plum-soup]

Changing colors duh

[max1461]

What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.

[expaulore]

Merry Christmas!🎄

http://www.instagram.com/expaulore

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[frogs4johndenver]

just saying but most iconic front women from rock/music history have had lesbian relationships. janis joplin? joan jett? josephine baker? debbie harry? amy winehouse? the godmother, the QUEEN, of all rock music sister rosetta tharpe? ALL have expressed in public (or private) their attraction for women as well as men. lesley gore, the 60s pop artist who gave us “you don’t own me”? a lesbian. ma rainey, a blues artist who gave us one of the first recordings of actual, non-subtextual lesbian content in “prove it on my blues”. and these are just the women who are, for the most part, well-known for their music and image. women who love women have done so much for music, and this is most likely only scratching the surface

[celtic-core]

[synqra]

[nemfrog]

“He is only a wild beast when treated like a wild beast.” Tramping with a poet in the Rockies, with thirty-eight emblems by Vernon Hill. 1928.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Nemfrog / Year in Review / May 2020