chimérique

chimérique: chimerical: merely imaginary, fanciful//Just some Canadian music major kid who likes Broadway and hockey. You'll find a mishmash of things here.//If you think I'm quiet, you don't know me.//More than willing to tag triggers!

[dankmemecentral1]

My dad is a kroger manager and sent me this (repost without personal info)

[leafcrunch]

they thought 1 lb stood for “one little bean”

[twloha]

It is a bad day, a bad week, maybe even a bad year—but it won’t last forever—not if you’ve got anything to say about it.

Jude Smith, “Keep Going” (via twloha)

[rainy-autumn-day]

[entropvy]

baby: *incomprehensible babbling*

me: WHAT!? really??? no way :0

[thelibrarina]

This is actually really good for babies’ brain development. You’re laying the groundwork for conversation, teaching them through example that people take turns talking and listening.

Did you know that babies from affluent families hear an average of thirty MILLION more words before age 5 than babies in families below the poverty line? For context, Les Miserables is about 650,000 words and it looks like this:

So it’s like reading this book 46 times.* And that’s not the total number of spoken words, that’s the GAP between affluent and poor babies. And these are the years in which the brain undergoes the most development. It’s mind-boggling.

So what I’m saying is: keep doing the thing. Do it to all babies, all the time. Narrate your day. Ask them for opinions. (“Should we buy the large bag of potatoes or the small bag?” “Gaabooglagje.” “Yes, just as I thought.”) Point out colors and shapes and letters. Let them scribble outside the lines and treat their babble like talk. Sing them nursery rhymes and Raffi songs and songs from the radio. All of these things are going to build their brains to prepare them for kindergarten and beyond.

*Please do not read Les Mis 46 times to an infant. They don’t even care about the Parisian sewer system.

[anarchy-and-love-deactivated202]

Don’t tell me what to do I’m going to read Les Mis 46 times to my child until they start a toddler uprising

[lindamarieanson]

[yesdarlingido]

“Waiting is a movement. People who wait have received a promise that allows them to wait. They have received something that is at work in them, like a seed that has started to grow. This is very important. We can only really wait if what we are waiting for has already begun for us. So waiting is never a movement from nothing to something. It is always a moving from something to something more. Waiting is also active. Most of us think of waiting as something very passive, a hopeless state determined by events totally out of our hands. But none of this passivity marks the waiting in scripture. It is active, because in our waiting we know that something is growing from the ground on which we are standing. Active waiting means to be fully present to the moment in a conviction that something is happening where you are and you want to be present to it.”

— Henry Nouwen, “A Spirituality of Waiting”

[chrisbrecheenwritingaboutwriting]

[tamarrud]

a walmart of pearl and sun

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

A Starbucks of Diamond and Wind

[shouldvehadatveit]

A Cafe of Pearl and Sunshine

[justsomeghostofme-deactivated20]

A Bubble Tea and Egg Waffle Cafe of Topaz and Warmth.

I don’t know what kind of YA fantasy this is, but it seems very cozy and tasty

[starberry-cupcake]

A Theater of Sapphire & Rain

[lectiomusica]

A Church of Turquoise and Clear Skies

[prettybooks]

Stages of the Reader

[damnselfly-b-deactivated2022042]

quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.

[shoren18]

I’m just gonna put it out there that if someone’s freaking about something small, they’re really freaking out about something big that they’re trying to deal with, or something long term that’s been building up, and that little thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.

[jrkaplonski]

Needed this today.

[animate-mush]

People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.

[thatclimbergirl]

You know when you just REALLY need cheesy garlic bread

[anthony-samaniego]

All these shots are between thirty and fifty second exposures. The time varies depending on the moonlight and starlight. I tend to shoot each exposure for under 45 seconds so the stars don’t trail. It’s really mind boggling to think about how long these mountains have been around. I try to make the exposures connect together as if they’re forming a single mountain or some sort of mountainous being. 

multiple exposures shot on medium format film. 

INSTAGRAM

[viralthings]

Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music.

[yesdarlingido]

To let someone love you is to no longer conceal what you think will scare them away.

L, A Few Things About Love (via yesdarlingido)

[unpretty]

wayne enterprises almost certainly has clothing as one of their retail subsidiaries and i like to imagine it getting really profitable just because bruce spends so much time listening to models bitch at parties. all of their product lines have names like “It Has Real Pockets” and “Not See-Through” and “Full-Length Sleeves” and “Secret Elastic Waist”. the marketing department is like “okay obviously these are all working titles” and bruce is like “no. leave it. that is what it’s called.” and they try to talk him out of it but he owns a helicopter and you can’t argue with a man who owns a helicopter. they sell so fast. the women of gotham are well-dressed and comfortable and always have somewhere to keep their phones.

[foreverlostinliterature]

[tblaberge]

You can reach out or you can curl up in a ball sobbing away, either way, God is quick to be there with you. He has a way of finding us in our need, and we always need Him.

T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via tblaberge)

[photography-cnl]

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather  (via thursdays-at-the-coffeeshop)