Wherever we may be

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, call to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things

[infiniteconchshells]

Always Knew I Was Adopted; Just Found Out I’m Gay by Sandra Steingraber • Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

A Coming Out Essay in Ten Parts 1. I’m gay. Five letters. Two syllables. Is there another declaration in the English language both smaller and bigger than this one? My 17-year-old son says mom it’s no big deal. No one, he surmises, should have to “come out.” Just be who you are. He says …

This adoption line really spoke to me. I’m not adopted but recently received some news that is pretty close..

“Some [adoptees] also report that the discovery of one’s adoption validated a long-standing suspicion, a precognition of difference and unbelonging that lay just under the surface of consciousness. A truth almost, but not quite, in plain sight, that, when revealed, explains a lot. Either way, it’s destabilizing, and the whole story of one’s identity has to be rewritten, revised, scrapped, rewritten again. Lies have to be unraveled. This is a complex process that requires years.”

[bettydraperlookingpissed]

What if god was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us?

[infiniteconchshells]

Ready to face palm any attackers

[politicalsci]

capitalism 101

[infiniteconchshells]

Second thoughts on place.

Full disclosure: Sometimes I want to move back to Florida and help out there because I think I could be the biggest help out there than anywhere else. I’m a local; there is a huge gap, and it’s a state that is in deep shit with climate change. There are opportunities for me there, like that extension educator job opportunity, PhDs in Gainesville, the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami nonprofits, Tampa nonprofits. 

Being with my dad drives me crazy, but it’s not like I’d live in his house or even in Orlando. 2+ hours away by car would be okay, plus I would be a better daughter, especially as he ages and with his casual “I have serious diseases” remarks. 

Florida is crazy too...so much of it makes me insane, like the freeways and strip malls and so many of the people are truly wild. But what’s the difference than here? You find  your niche, and I blend in too well here. Plus, there are crazy people on the street and loud assholes here too. Do I really just want to blend in to another white, progressive landscape? move to red states, they say. Plus, I’m still registered in Florida because somehow I refuse to give up my identity.

When I look at the springs and the turquoise ocean, my heart hurts, like it yearned for my partner during our year of long distance. Maslow hierarchy. Food/survival, etc, Love, then water. 

The only thing is Love > Florida Water and love does not want to live in Florida. He can’t live in Florida. He can’t live anywhere but here for now because of his visa restrictions. He wants something else, and it makes me doubt things. It’s still better the alternative, but the unpleasant thoughts grow older as each day creeps by without a splash in a body of natural water, as my days working remotely mostly consist with dealing with Adobe Connect, wrangling cats through persistent emails, and sitting in on boring, remote meetings.

When will my tipping point be? Should I just do it? When does the homesickness go away? When will home ever feel like here, or anywhere else?

[the-soul-tribe-deactivated20180]

“A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. She may have to knead and bake, rapt in dough up to her elbows. She may have to trek into the hills, leaping from rock to rock trying out her voice against the mountain. She may need hours of starry nights where the stars are like face powder spilt on a black marble floor. She may feel she will die if she doesn’t dance naked in a thunderstorm, sit in perfect silence, return home ink-stained, paint-stained, tear-stained, moon-stained.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[thisiseverydayracism]

Since Trump is scared of both Mueller and sharks.

[sosuperawesome]

Lindsay Rapp on Instagram

[infiniteconchshells]

Accepting the hopeless wanderer

No one reads this anyway...I’m just rambling for myself here

Moss and mold invade this place. It’s more apparent once you’ve been gone for a while. I missed the green but not the rain that keeps this place green. You can’t have it both ways. 

I’m not from here, but I thought I would call this place home. I was beginning to feel a bond with the Salish Sea, and part of that will always remain, but the city produces no feelings of belonging, of home, except for the pictures on my wall, the man and dog in my bed. They can travel with me, and I’d feel at home.

Other than that, I’m a vagabond, and I might as well accept that. It will make it easier. I have no need to be close to my family...I just need sunshine, a good career path, and easy access to the outdoors. 

But I miss DC more than I thought. I miss the “hustle” and the insanity of living in the capitol. Seattle is so calm, so homogenous. It’s not forever, but I wouldn’t mind moving back and then complaining about the dirty, unreliable Metro, the lack of decent grocery stores, the high cost of living, the unfriendly and nearly murderous cars. Oh well...you can’t choose what or who you love right, even if it’s a stressful city or a person who is from over 10,000 miles away

[ithelpstodream]

[maptitude1]

Climate analogs of Australia

[lesbianrey]

when you’ve been carrying around an empty plastic bottle for 2 hrs because you can’t find a recycling bin

[memewhore]

[st4rwiitch]

this is fantastic now children in Puerto Rico wont be able to receive the education they deserve thanks to their messed up government

[dionysusbisexual]

Its even worse than that. I’m living through it. Not only are schools closing, hospitals are collapsing. Only around 9% of the island has electricity and it comes and goes at times.

People are dying in hospitals because of lack of diesel for the generators, a lot of the water is now infected, there are disease outbreaks and scareceness of food. I am safe, but many are not.

Some have water, others don’t. We need help. Sending money would be helpful but what would help even more would be sending water filters, filtering water bottles, food, medicine, if somehow possible diesel.

All of you reblogging this news helps, but what we need is physical help. If you can’t, then spread the word, but God if you can send supplies… Please… PLEASE do. We are dying. Help us, help us save ourselves. Help us save our people. Help us save out ISLAND.

[airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat]

If you’re not in a position to ship or transport useful items to the island (which is sure as heck the case for me in New Zealand) then the best thing you can do is give money to a reputable relief organisation operating in the area.

Hispanic Federation UNIDOS fundraising page for Puerto Rico.

Choose the fundraiser you want from the dropdown menu in the “Your Information” section (as you can see from the picture they have several).

Save the Children’s Hurricane Maria fundraising page.

[bob-belcher]

the mood for 2017

[hoothootmotherf-ckers]

“Holy shit 2017, we hardly knew ya! That’s not true… we knew you pretty well and you fuckin sucked!”

-Griffin McElroy, relatable as ever

[thechanelmuse]

Trump Administration Kicks 59,000 Displaced Haitian Earthquake Victims Out of the United States

The Trump administration announced Monday that 59,000 displaced Haitian earthquake victims that have been living in the United States under temporary status must leave the country within 18 months.

Where does the administration expect them to go?

According to the L.A. Times, more than 3o,000 Haitians that are affected by the order live in Florida; another large number live in New York City.

Many of the Haitians entered the country illegally in 2010 after a powerful earthquake devastated their island, which was already considered one of the poorest places in the Western Hemisphere. They were protected against deportation under Temporary Protected Status, a program created by Congress during the 1990s that helped prevent large numbers of people from being sent back to areas that were suffering from wars or natural disasters.

Gen. John F. Kelly, while still acting as the secretary of Homeland Security in May, said that the conditions in Haiti had improved to the point that the U.S. would not likely continue extending protection temporary protection. He extended Haitian protected status for an additional six months but simultaneously urged them to prepare to leave the U.S.

Where are they supposed to go?

On Monday, acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine C. Duke affirmed that Haitians would still be required to leave, but said the order would not be effective until July 22, 2019.

If Haitians covered until temporary protection are able to show they have other legal claims to remain in the United States under immigrant status, they will be allowed to stay, administration officials said.

Read more at the LA Times.