[thelovejournals]

And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

Tim Urban, Wait But Why - How to Pick Your Life Partner (via thelovejournals)

[mabellonghetti]

Jane Birkin with daughters Kate Barry and Charlotte Gainsbourg, 1974. Photos by Leonard de Raemy

[beautaplinpoems]

[beautaplinpoems]

[imnook]

[twcgentleman13]

“What do I love most about you? You make me laugh. God, you make me laugh. And I don’t mean a little chuckle or titter or giggle or snort. I mean the kind of laugh that commands and consumes you. The sort that booms and bellows and spreads like wildfire. The kind you can feel in your soul.”

— Beau Taplin

[nakedly]

Be patient with yourself. You don’t plant a seed and expect it to be a tree the day after. So how can you expect to do the same with yourself. With time, through a storm, you will find the light afterwards to grow and to blossom.

I will keep growing (via nakedly)

[championsaremade]

Listen to me. This is your life– no one else’s. At the end of the day, it is you who has to be happy with the choices you are making, food you are eating, things you are doing, goals you are pursuing. Do not let the opinions and judgments of others stop you from doing what you feel and know in your heart is right for you. Eat the food that makes you feel best. Do what makes you feel at peace. Surround yourself with people who make you feel good, who make you laugh, who sincerely make you smile. Go after what you want– not because someone else is telling you to, but because you want to. Listen to that inner voice, trust your gut, and trust yourself.

[demouvement]

Young black love.

..i had no idea he was recording this bs. Smh

[mysticalesoteric-deactivated201]

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS

[fineapplemango]

This is too cute! Omg

[diekingdomcome]

He was killing it, they too adorable 😭

[blowingoutmatches-deactivated20]

I love this lol

[gmorningsunshine]

I love it so much lol

[handsometruth]

[melaninmedicine]

Y'all better listen up

[lowkeylioness]

Press play and #StopWastingEachothersTime2k17

[biigemdawg]

‼️ shouldn’t have applied if you weren’t ready

[csmitty4u]

CHECK!!!

[jaiking]

Follow me at http://jaiking.tumblr.com/ You’ll be glad you did.

[necenitaaa]

THIS

[that-sunshine-kid]

Holy wow.

[buffy-sainte-marie]

Buffy breast feeds Cody on Sesame Street (x)

[amaditalks]

This was 1976. Big Bird understood and was wholly accepting and empathetic toward Buffy breastfeeding in public, and Big Bird is meant to be the equivalent of a preschool aged child, but every single day on social media, adults exclaim disgust toward breastfeeding in public and misogyny at the parents who do so. People, you’re less evolved than

Big Bird was 38 years ago. Grow the hell up.

[smallworldofbigal]

holy shit.  I had NO idea Sesame Street covered this topic.

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

And Buffy was Native American. And she breastfed. In front of muppets and children. No one died.

[ohenieledam]

Buffy Sainte-Marie is First Nations! 🙌🏿

[ourgardenofeden]

[ourgardenofeden]

[ourgardenofeden]

[hbgoodie]

A beautiful day

Instagram @hbgoodie

www.ourgoodadventure.com

[agirlnamedally]

This is in no way intended as hate, Im just curious as to your perspective. In your last insta, you talk about finding the good in everything and how everything depends on our mindset, in some situations I feel like nothing positive can come of it, all the refugees struggling at the moment, all the animals dying every second, one of my family members is currently in hospital after a suicide attempt. Surely it's very privileged of us to say that something good will come from their pain? thank u x

Hi lovely, I don’t take that as hate at all. This is something I have grappled with for many years myself. In fact, this kind of thinking is part of the reason I strayed away from my Christian faith when I was younger - I couldn’t understand how one all-powerful being justified harm befalling so many. 

The way I see it now is this: I don’t agree with the statement so many say that “everything happens for a reason”, but I do think reason can be found in everything. For example, what is happening to your family member is clearly an absolutely heartbreaking tragedy, and I would never argue that was the ‘worlds plan’, but I do think there is always solace to be found. Maybe this will inspire you or someone else in your family to start a group/organisation/discussion around mental health, or have a talk to younger relatives and explain what depression feels like and let them know its okay to ask for help. Maybe it brings your family closer and dissolves past fights because it helped you all realise that the only thing that matters is love and being there for one another. Maybe your family member has been in pain for a very very long time and this experience will help them in some way. Maybe it makes you more compassionate to those going through depression, or a little kinder to someone who is struggling. Maybe it makes someone in your family who could be a bit of a bully, realise how impactful our words and actions are to one another.

I try to think the same for situations in my life. My dad being diagnosed with cancer served as a cold hard dose of reality reminding me that my parents aren’t going to be around forever, therefore prompting me to spend as much time with them as I can and make sure they know how loved they are. My own mental health struggles has made me ten times more understanding to those of others, and allows me to help people going through the same. These aren’t things I would choose to happen, but since they did, I find the positive. 

I in no way mean that it is a ‘good’ situation, but rather since we cannot change all situations, we can look for the good. 

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to the janitor.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to the waitress.

[infinitelovelike-blog]

Always be kind to the person at the call center.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to the cashier.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to receptionist.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind, When it’s possible.

[agirlnamedally]

It’s always possible.

[ourgardenofeden]

9 things i learnt in 9 months: 1. Babies are on your team. I was scared i would do the wrong thing or not understand a cry or hurt her. Little did i know, we are both new at this and are balanced with understanding for one another. We both screw up sometimes, but we are both trying our best. 2. That being said, babies do not cry for no reason, they are communicating. The beauty of being a monther is that every cry is unique. Really. There is a cry for pain, for attention, for tiredness, for sickness. There is a cry for everything, its just about learning her language. 3. Your pain level after labour never changes. “I had a baby; waxing wont hurt..” it does. And it always will. 4. You find your true friends. People love a cute baby cuddle at first, but its those that stick around through the cries and puking that are keepers. 5. You gain a new identity. Changing from a 22 year old free spirit to a stay at home mother is a huge shock (or at least it was for me). Its all about a new lease on life - i suddendly had no time for drama or partying, but instead morning coffee dates or walks with my family. I wouldnt change that for the world. 6. I became very jealous. Eden was the center for attention. How selfish does that sound? I had friends begging to see her but wouldn’t spare a second look at me or ask me how my day was. Its hard because believe me, i dont blame them - shes the center of my universe aswell. But remember i was your friend too.. 7. You’re never too young, too old, too poor or not ready to have a baby. Never again will I judge the young mum with a screaming toddler on the bus. Babies dont care for money or background, you’re their mum. Their only mum. 8. Plastic is gold. I HATED plastic toys. I was one of those pregnant women dreaming of beautiful organic, wooden, earth toned toys made from recycled materials which my child would gracefully play with whilst listening to bach. No chance. They want colour and noise and fun! Don’t spend hundreds of dollars on expensive toys, they use them for a day before trading them in for something shinier. 9. Love is unconditional. Sometimes i fight with my friends and we fall out and dont talk. Or me and my partner will dissagree over something and ignore each other. But your child seems to have a hold on your heart. I could never dislike her. Or be mad with her. I adore her with every piece of my heart. Always have, always will. Happy birthday Eden Rose x

[ourgardenofeden]

Reminder to self