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Credit: The Telegraph In daylights, in sunsets? In midnights, in cups of coffee? In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife? In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes... How do you measure a year in the life? How about love? Measure in love.

#2014

Jake Owen | Summer Jam (feat. Florida Georgia Line) You're the watermelon, sticky-lip kiss on my cheek. I love this line.

#jake owen #tunes

Credit: IDK I always thought the beluga whale is the cutest of the whales.

#beluga whale #critter-mance

J.R.R. Tolkien's original first page for The Lord of the Rings (1937).

#tolkien #lotr

Depiction versus reality. Just a tad off.

#dc

Credit: Bruno Morandi

#nepal #portraits

Credit: IDK. Om nom nom. Milk cows are too cute.

#cows

Smith went through a time when he was being very selfish, and his wife forgave him. That's great for him, but I want you to know that you are under no obligation to be the saint in your relationship. If a relationship depends completely on one partner doing all of the forgiving, all of the loving, all of the sacrificing, then it is not a fair relationship, and you deserve a fair relationship. Don't let anyone tell you that real men misbehave and real women forgive. Find someone who is prepared to be just as loving and devoted as you are.

Huffingtonpost.com | Wayne Self

#relationships #women

Credit: Rodrigo Abd Eudicia Urbano, 70, standing in front of her former home, near the spot where her husband Marcial Escalante died, weeps as she retells how he was tortured and killed by Shining Path rebels, in Chaca, Peru. The region endured some of the worst atrocities of Peruís 1980-2000 conflict, in which both Maoist-inspired insurgents and security forces committed grave human rights violations. "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today’s warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children." - Hillary Clinton, conference on domestic violence in San Salvador, El Salvador (17 November 1998)

#humanity #women

Our analysis of 2012 census data shows that most families with two incomes rely upon the wife’s work to stay afloat financially. The census reveals that out of 59 million married couples, 36 million feature wives with positive earnings. When we subtracted the wives’ incomes from those 36 million families, roughly 7 million fell below the federal poverty line, with another 6 million falling below 1.5 times the poverty line, and a further 6 million falling below twice the poverty line. Thus, were the incomes of working wives to be suddenly subtracted from their families, a full 54 percent of families with two incomes would be in or near poverty.

But the American social conservatives who advocate for women to spend less time in the workforce and more time in the home rarely advocate for the creation or expansion of programs that would support their goals... In the real world, poverty and inequality militate powerfully against family life, rendering marriage an unattractive option and child rearing stressful and financially perilous. Anyone interested in promoting participation in family life should thus look to the nations that have managed to do just that (e.g. The Netherlands).

The toothless advocacy of women returning to the home without increased programmatic support suggests an interest in encouraging female dependency upon male partners rather than a genuine interest in loving, stable family life. Those who would push women out of jobs and into the home without any recourse aside from the potentially inadequate earnings of their partners are not seriously concerned about the well-being of mothers, fathers, and children; rather, they’re invested in a particular kind of gender power structure that leaves families poor and unhappy.

Salon.com | Elizabeth Stoker and Matt Bruenig

#public policy #women #motherhood

Closer (Acoustic) | Tegan and Sara feat. Kurt Hugo Schneider and Band I remember when these ladies topped my high school playlist. I'm glad they haven't lost their touch.

#tegan and sara #tunes

Credit: Thomas Krumenacker A flock of Common Cranes fly towards their night roost near the village of Linum on Oct. 19. The area north of Berlin has become the biggest staging point for migrating cranes in central Europe where up to 80,000 cranes roost for several weeks on their way from their breeding grounds in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe or Russia to their wintering grounds in Western Spain.

#autumn #cranes

Bees pause on a sunflower at the Agricenter in Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 25. (Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal via Associated Press) Please help save the honey bee.

#bees

Earth captured by Cassini from beneath the rings of Saturn.

#earth #space

Sled dog and sunrise.

#dogs

Woodlands of the California coast by Marc Adamus.

#california

Fields of Bosnia.

#world #bosnia

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