[dualvoidanima]

‘sinking’

[hittings]

[grayskymorning]

Carla Natalia Thompson

[ay-aaaah]

Hi! I’m going to start this thread of academic readings, articles, and documentaries that I've been exposed to in grad school + throughout the years because knowledge is key (feel free to add to it)

[itsreem-blog]

[keepingitneutral]

Vincenzo De Cotiis & Claudia Rose Palazzo, 

Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Happy Daze

Watercolor and Gouache on Yellow Paper

2019, 9"x 12"

White Daisies

Private Collection

[bluebeardsbride-deactivated2021]

“I would split open my heart with a knife, place you within and seal my wound, that you might dwell there and never inhabit another …”

— Ibn Hazm (Córdoba, 994–Niebla, 1064),  from “My Heart”, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay in: “Poems for the Millenium. Book of North African Literature”, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour

[ryoga-deactivated20231223]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache … The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.”

— Brene Brown

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the worst, and most difficult, feeling in the world is grasping on to something with your entire being even when it dawns on you that it’s really over. grief is real and doesn’t only involve death.

[ay-aaaah]

Many foreign parents are so deeply lost in their own traumas that they lose sight of the ways in which they project their own onto their children. They say the most senseless things like “you’re mentally ill and need help”, using it as an attack when arguing and when you defend yourself and they find it disrespectful yet refuse to believe that things like anxiety and depression exist. And God forbid you open up to them about needing therapy because all they tell you is that “you’re doing it to yourself” “your iman is low” “it’s because you’re not good to your parents” “what are you so stressed about? You haven’t even experienced the world yet”. And it’s sad because a lot of the times they don’t actually mean these things nor do they understand. And the only way to get them to understand is to help them acknowledge their own burdens and generational trauma. But in breaking these generational curses you carry a million burdens of your own and it feels worthless to even try because how do you convince 40 and 50 year olds that they’re suffering from trauma when they’ve been forced to passively suck it up their whole lives? How do you dismantle the idea that trauma doesn’t exist and that “that’s just the way life is” in a whole community? A whole nation? A whole culture?

[ay-aaaah]

100 days of productivity: 25/100

Early morning train rides and coffee. Trying to make the best out of the few days left I have of freedom before I jump into 6 months of working 50 hours a week and going to grad school full time. I had been declined multiple jobs before finally being content with my situation. Just as I had began to take advantage of the free time I have, it’s come close to an end. We really don’t take advantage of things we have when we have them and only begin to value them once we’re losing them entirely. If I’ve learned anything in the last year it’s that:

• everything truly happens for a reason, even when we don’t see it

• to take advantage of every moment you have (I.e. be forgiving, make as much time for the people you love, never take anything for granted because you can lose it at any given moment - especially at times where you see a loss coming the least)

• peoples truest colors show in difficult situations

[catchymemes]

Anti anxiety.

[wind-the-music-box]

I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT CAT ONE FOREVER

[redwoodsin]

This is amazing but I’m on mobile so the gifs keep freezing. So I’m just sitting here turning purple like a fool. Keep breathing everyone!

[abbasspace]

The Divide (By: Abbas Space) 

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If there’s anything I keep close to my heart everyday - from the moment I wake up until the minute I go to bed, it’s that you really never know what someone can be going through. Billions of people roam this earth and no matter how many laughs you see or amazing posts on social media that lead you to believe that someone is the happiest person on this planet - don’t ever take it upon yourself to assume that someone has it better than you, solely based off of what you see. Whether that person is the furthest person from you, or the closest; you never really know.

I don’t take this lightly. A smile can save someone’s life and one mean word can be the last straw and make their life crumble. Be forgiving. Don’t assume. Mind your own business. And most importantly, I cannot stress this enough, be kind. You don’t know how much someone might need that one kind gesture. I know on the days I’m living a hell, wanting to bury myself deep within the depths of this earth without even the closest people to me realizing it - those 30 second conversations and “hi’s” with a smile, they save me.

- AZ

[photography-cnl]

Otherworldly Landscape Photography by Dylan Furst Captures Kerouac’s Adventures On the Road

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