[perfectfeelings]

“I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.”

— David Levithan, Every You, Every Me

[teeth-ing]

graveyard and farm off centerville

[quotespile]

“You have to talk, otherwise your head turns into a cemetery.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This

[wildflowers-for-june]

[petewentzisblack1312]

we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.

[petewentzisblack1312]

like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.

you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.

[j-h-s]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

you know what gives me some hope in the midst of all the horrors? the fact that street dogs will come up to humans and ask for head skritches and belly rubs.

here's an animal that's never lived in a warm home, never had a human to call theirs, but they've met enough kind humans that they know they can ask us for kindness.

that's the thing to hold onto. enough of us are kind. not all. maybe not most. but enough.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this applies to street cats too. it just happened to be a dog I met this morning who inspired the post. but here's a cat I met yesterday. he ran right up to me and yelled until I sat down so he could jump in my lap.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

very important update:

[sweetwithheatwriting]

@hopepunk-humanity

[climbhighsleeplow]

Frozen River Edge

Another, taken at the same spot.

[altivyx]

[llovinghome]

[seravph]

omg I just remembered that to love another person is to see the face of god

[carolsturka]

[rrondo]

[petitworld]

Thwaitedale, Yorkshire Dales, England by Bob Radlinski

[lamignonette]

[wanderlustfuldays]

Huangshan, China

[freckles-and-books]

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

— Howard Zinn (via freckles-and-books)

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, The House by the Sea