pun-itive damages.

I grew up at some point, I wish I hadn't done that.

[closet-keys]

Underrated form of intimacy: being silly together

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[a-guys-random-blog]

Stop, this is why no one understands my jokes…

[minuty]

“Being married someday is going to be so cool. like you get to come home to your best friend every single day and just do life together.”

— unknown (via amortizing)

[dduane]

Above: Possibly the most photogenic bread I’ve ever baked on Flickr.

From the household: the easiest bread recipe with really good results

This is the bread I make when I need plain white bread for everyday sandwich or toast purposes. It has a lovely crumb and is a substantial bread, not an airy-fairy “pan loaf” of the type too damn common in British and Irish supermarkets. (Which is not to mean that it’s one of those loaves you make that refuses to rise and which you therefore desperately characterize as “substantial” so people will think you meant it to come out that way.)

The basic recipe came from the website of Bäckerei Sieber in Au, a town in Canton St. Gallen in Switzerland. The recipe itself is for Tessinerbrot or “bread from Ticino”; down in that southern canton the Roman breadmaking techniques have persisted unusually tenaciously. Since Roman bread had a deserved reputation for being very high-end indeed – a reputation which Spanish-bred bakers brought to it – this is a good thing.

The peculiarity about this recipe (from the North American home baker’s point of view, anyway) is that the recipe manages its ingredients by mass rather than volume, even for the liquid. This is how professional bakers do things, though, at least in Switzerland: it seems to get around the problem of how much moisture your local flour is in a mood to absorb today. One caveat: this dough tends toward the wet and sticky end of the bread dough spectrum, so it’s really easier made in a mixer with a dough hook.  Also, I sometimes bake this using the bake-it-in-a-preheated-pot technique which derives from the famous Lahey no-knead bread recipe. Pot baking produces a good high rise with little work, and with a really nice crust. (Though sometimes the old-fashioned loaf pan technique produces very superior results, as above. The Bread Fairy was really sitting on my shoulder that day.)

This recipe makes one big loaf. I’ve baked this in anything from a Romertopf to a single US-style loaf pan to a 3-liter lidded casserole of enamelled cast iron. This recipe branches several times: think of it as a Choose-Your-Own-Bread story.

The ingredients:

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[conservativebrew]

So, the FBI opened an inquiry into whether or not Trump was working for Russia. 9 paragraphs into the article, there is no evidence. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html

[nofirstnamebuse]

That's because you're reading a news article not an FBI report.

[reputallison13]

When someone mentions Taylor Swift

Me:

[nofirstnamebuse]

#rachel listening to reputation

[6i]

it takes years to develop your craft. do not romanticize the idea of an ‘overnight success’. be a student. grow organically. get really good. hate your work. start over. find new ways to express the same ideas. the student becomes the master. your time will come.

[acai-studies]

so SO IMPORTANT

[nofirstnamebuse]

IF YOU'RE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO, DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO BE GOOD.

[breanna-lynn]

You are forgiven. Forgive them.

“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” -  Ephesians 4:32

“Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” - Colossians 3:13 

“And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” -Mark 11:25

“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” - Ephesians 4:31-32

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” - James 5:16

“See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled” - Hebrews 12:15

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.” - Luke 6:37

“When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.” - 1 Peter 2:23

“Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” - Matthew 6:12-13

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.“ Leviticus 19:17-18

“My beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” - James 1:19-20

“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” - Romans 12:19

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” - Matthew 7:1-5

“But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.” Colossians 3:8

“Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” - 1 John 3:15

“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” - Hebrews 4:16

“And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” - Luke 17:4

“God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” - John 3:17

We are forgiven, pardoned, set free, justified, shown compassion, mercy, and grace when we did not deserve it. He loved us despite our sinful, broken, ugly, selfish selves. He chose Love. 

If we are hurt, wronged, betrayed, or sinned against, we are not like Christ to hold onto that and hold it against anyone. We must forgive. We must let it go. We must love our neighbor. Resentment and bitterness is not of Jesus’ heart. That is sinful. We can’t choose how others choose to act, think, or feel. We can’t control how they choose to act, think, or feel toward us or others. All we can do is decide how we will respond- how we will act, think, and feel. 

Do not give their sin toward you power over you. Do not let someone else’s shortcomings cause you to give way to sin. Choose instead to respond like Christ would. How Christ loved you in your shortcomings and sin. Choose mercy, grace, forgiveness, compassion, and entrusting yourself to God, who judges justly. He sees and He knows. He desires all turn to repentance and change their ways. You should, too. If our desire is to see someone hurt or pay for what they have done, with malice in our heart, we do not have the heart of God, who desires everyone to come to the knowledge of Christ and be saved.

A good test of heart is to think of those who have hurt you and not only declare them forgiven in Christ, that what they did is no longer held against them but washed away, but also pray that God would bless them. If you can’t bring yourself to pray blessing over them, you are still holding on to unforgiveness in your heart. If you find it easy to slander them, talk about their negative traits or what they have done wrong, then you haven’t let it go. 

Truly, the one thing that helps me forgive is to entrust that person to God and forgive them from my heart, letting go of anything and all they did, and allow myself to heal with God as I release that person to Him. I wish them the best, I pray they discover the heart of God, and that He would convict them and lead them toward His ways. I have no power to convince them and I can’t (nor should I) punish them; leave justice to God and choosing compassion and mercy will flood your own heart with peace as you give all that negativity away. 

Forgive, you are forgiven.

[nofirstnamebuse]

It's not rushing if you know you've found everything you want and need.

[lovelysuggestion]

avoir elle est avoir les étoilés (to have her is to have the stars)

[nofirstnamebuse]

Any guy who says he doesn't like being the little spoon is lying.

[topazmother]

brown eyes are warm and beautiful and deserve more recognition

[nofirstnamebuse]

someone: wet willy

me, an intellectual: moist william

[mettayya]

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming…

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

[worshipgifs]

Matthew 6:30, Luke 12:7, Psalm 139:13-14

[nofirstnamebuse]

Hey you're a good friend.

I dont know about that

[nofirstnamebuse]

I know I messed up and it might be over, but I'll call you when I'm sober.

Blink 182, Sober