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Taken in 2000 about a year into our relationship.

Taken in 2024 (last weekend). Didn’t quite get the pose or positioning right, but hey, we’re older and our memory ain’t what it used to be!

movedtofailhag2

how it feels to be in a transitional period

today, i noticed something on my window sill.

one year ago, i beheaded a succulent in hopes of giving its stem a better life.

one year ago, i let it be ugly and scarred and full of potential.

and for one year, it did not grow anything. still, every week, i watered it and misted it and placed it with the other lively plants that were bursting at every node with vivid greens and pinks.

sometimes, i did not have faith that anything would come from these scars. sometimes, i stopped caring for this stump, potential and all.

but i kept coming back to it.

and today, after weeks of renewed sunlight flowing bright white through the window, smiling down on the stump, after a year of imperfect but committed care, i noticed something on my window sill.

small, plump, mighty bubbles of purple-pink-green rising out of the side of the scarred, seemingly dead little stump.

this sweet, small cluster peers up at me with hope and wonder and gratitude and all of the life ahead of it.

it says, “thank you for your imperfect but careful kindness and attention. i am here because you believed. and i am beautiful.”

#succulent #poetry #writing

radicallycooljewishgirl

Stop using a misogynistic symbol thinking you’re a girlboss.

menareugly-deactivated20240721

Feminism is the only rights movement where you must include the oppressors to be considered progressive.

No. Sorry. You’re not gonna “all lives matter” your way into this. Men already have 99.9% of the world. They don’t need this space, too. Go somewhere else.

Practice acceptance.

radicallycooljewishgirl

Me at all the wacked out lib fems on this hellsite.

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Speed Ratliff as the Boom Operator for SAW (2004)

radiofreederry

momo33me

Egyptian Soccer Star Mohamed Abo treka wearing a T-shirt that reads “Sympathize with Gaza,” during An African Cup of Nations match. in 2008

لم ولن ننسى لأبو تريكة موقفه النبيل بإشهار قميص يدعو إلى دعم غزة أثناء الاحتفال بهدف في كأس الأمم الأفريقية لتنبيه العالم إلى معاناة اهل غزة

artemisiasea

People pleasing is just rooted in co-dependence. When you take away the fear of loss or rejection it’s not necessary to act from a place of forced obligation or neglecting your needs because there’s no illusory foundation of fake approval to walk on. Might as well just be yourself and see who fucks with the real you. People are out here making sacrifices on their character daily for people who don’t even think about them…. And for what lol everything is going to fall apart anyways. Get living for real!