One day, I will even come up with a clever title

[90sfashiongal]

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Omg yes.

[ladyxgaga]

Gaga talks rape culture and victim blaming in her Times Talks interview with New York Times columnist and author, Frank Bruni

[hopesingsthetune]

This is so, so important.

[blazepress]

[habits-of-health]

This is it. This is the best post on Tumblr.

[teesadutta]

[micdotcom]

NFL player Joe Haden is taking a powerful stand against the “R-word” 

Joe is an NFL cornerback for the Cleveland Browns. Jacob, his younger brother, is Joe’s biggest fan. Jacob also happens to have a cognitive disorder that limits his speech and language capabilities. Via the Special Olympics and activism, the two are inspiring people everywhere — and the story of how Joe saved Jacob’s life is just the beginning.

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>> I can’t seem to stop crying this morning

[skyetownsendsbrain-deactivated2]

Me either.

[thestrength]

Unconditional love between siblings is amazing.

[hopesingsthetune]

Glad EVERY time someone continues the conversation about the r-word and understanding that people are people.

[the-perks-of-being-black]

[lolshtus]

You’re A Hazard, Harry

[jennyslater]

Years ago, I remember thinking, “Man, it sure would be awesome to be living in an intown Atlanta neighborhood with trees lining the streets, in one of those old renovated houses with a lot of character, with a sporty little car, a couple of dogs and a woman who loves me very much. Oh, and it would kick ass if it had an extra room I could use as my Lego room and put all my toys in there.”

Taking the dogs for a walk around Grant Park yesterday, I realized … we’ve achieved every last one of those things.

I feel like we as people, but specifically Americans, are conditioned to see everything as just a step to something else. You do well in high school so you can get into a good college. You do well in college so you can get a good job. You do well at that job so you can eventually move up to a better job. You buy a house so you can start building equity and take ownership of an asset, so you can eventually take that money and invest it and make more money, or use that money to buy a bigger and better house.

Only nobody tells you what the ultimate stopping point is supposed to be. And granted, it’s different for everyone, but the problem is our upwardly mobile, Horatio Alger, American-dreamin’ society sort of drills it into your skull that there is no stopping point. Somebody’s always going to have something nicer than you, so you need to go strive for that. Got a Volvo? Well, the dude down the street has a BMW. Got your BMW now? OK, great, but the dude down the street has a Porsche Panamera and now you’re kind of lusting after it a little bit, aren’t you? Go get that. Go want that thing. If you aren’t pursuing something better or nicer, people will think you’re lazy.

Now that we’re starting to get pretty well settled in here, and I start my new job tomorrow, I’ve made it my not-really-New-Year’s resolution to focus more on my enjoyment of what I have now than my desire to acquire any additional. Which is not to say that I won’t eventually seek to move up at my job, or make a big-ticket purchase here or there, but … I feel like Holly and I have been so incredibly blessed over the last few months that “What’s still missing from this?” is the exact wrong question to be asking. Instead of racking our brains for the exact situation or possession that would make things perfect, I’m resolving to spend a little more time marveling at just how close to perfect things already are — and the many blessings, circumstances and strokes of luck that brought us here.

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“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”

Anne Lamott; Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via wordpainting)

[theparisreview]

E. L. Konigsburg, author of beloved children’s titles The View from Saturday, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and, most famously, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, has died, at eighty-three.

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here. Quote from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

[hopesingsthetune]

Am I the only one who doesn't think that sorority girl letter is funny at all?

[yazzydream]

Go away, boy. You bother me.

[sexlesslovers]

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“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do—-the actual act of writing—-turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”

Anne Lamott

[I love this woman. She’s absolutely brilliant.]

(via wordpainting)

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[hopesingsthetune]

Melissa Harris-Perry’s open letter to Steubenville survivor

[sharkyteeth-blog-blog]

Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.

Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice (via littlemissmoss) I initially figured this was more #safetytipsforladies. I still am gonna treat it that way.

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The child I babysit sometimes is 5 years old. Last time I went to take care of him I noticed he has this awesome painting of the moon in his bedroom. He told me his mothers friend painted it. After he told me the artists name he then explained to me “She used to be a boy but she didn’t feel good so now she just takes medicine and it helps her to be a girl. She feels better” 

It’s literally that easy to explain it to kids.