All The Love In The World

Literally just that.

[pmamtraveller]

"Waiting Gradually Eats The Soul"

by A.F. Vandevorst.

[anancientheart]

there’s something about becoming older where everything feels finite. summer isn’t endless, love isn’t eternal. you move homes, your favorite boots fall apart, your dog dies. everything feels consuming and beautiful when it is believed to be eternal. now it is all precious. everything. and there is a melancholy that comes with it.

[stuckinapril]

This this this this!!!

[wordfather]

did you hear? they're saying if you open your eyes to it, love is everywhere to be found. its everywhere its everywhere its everywhere

[kailysander]

Queer Mexicana 🇲🇽

[kailysander]

Hey this post is not for terfs btw. The umbrella term “queer” is used here on purpose.

[jordanbolton]

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

[waltzingbi]

*me, literally sick with want* whatever

[dogpuppy]

[tonsimonsi]

Need some fables AESOP

[weaver-z]

This boomer comic incinerated every “I hate my wife” comic instantly

[filyahehh]

smartest cat ever!

[voidpostings1]

[thecollectibles]

Virgo by Artem Chebokha

[ozempicofficial]

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[eisenkrahe]

[flipocrite]

not she berry or he berry but no berry

and that is berry good

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

[ancestralia]

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior.  There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time.  Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP's link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

[thisaintnofuckingdisco]

Original link seems to be broken, but a quick search led me to this very touching accounting of the full story of how Mary Moran was able to find the village her great great grandmother was taken from:

How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved