For the love of Onions!

She/her| India| I have a love-hate relationship with words

[peoplematchingartworks]

[peoplematchingartworks]

[peoplematchingartworks]

[patnigabdul]

Perforated connections

Over the years

Diagonally attached

Pretending to be banal.

Persistent in laughter, in alcohol, in text, in sex.

Bare-hearted vulnerability,

Some lost, some given away,

few retained.

Permanent tear un-imagined

False anger peaks

Hiding the real anger of rejection.

[patnigabdul]

The varicose on my potential

Standing, sitting, lying

Stillness, waiting,

Standing, sitting, lying

Stillness, waiting

Standing, sitting, lying

Stillness, waiting

I am thirty two

Standing, sitting, lying

Stillness, waiting

[resqectable]

“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”

— Melissa Cox

[whisperstheheart1]

Sometimes Rest Is the Most Productive Action We Can Take

phlegm sits in my throat like a landlord

doubling the rent on breath

my head a fishbowl tipped sideways

thoughts circling the drain

each inhale a matchstick too damp to catch

but somewhere beneath the ache

a sparrow warms its wings

against the curve of tomorrow

and I am reminded —

life shifts in tiredness

and rest is the quiet machine

that builds us back up

to begin again.

[peoplematchingartworks]

[ruinedchildhood]

[thelittleblackfox]

Absolutely obsessed with how it snatches the bread away from the turtle

[cazort]

i love how there is so much drama in the video, the duck wants the bread, the heron is like nope, then the turtle wants the bread, and then when it finally catches the fish the great egret is like hey

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Theology has gotten boring no one is asking incredibly stupid pointless questions anymore. If Adam and Eve were naked in Eden but Eden had no suffering that means it had to have been a perfectly comfortable temperature for both of them without clothes and, we can assume, if not for the fall, for all mankind. Does this mean a. People preferring different temperatures is a consequence of the fall and in a perfect world there is also a perfect temperature everyone is comfortable at, b. Everyone experiences a different temperature in Eden, or c. Adam and Eve didn't have thermoreceptors.

[astalkingirin]

d.

Feral children have been noted to have little response to temperature extremes. Adam and Eve did not learn to perceive temperature as something you can have a preference for because they did not view it as something they could affect, therefore they would not have described differing temperatures as "suffering".

From this, we can extrapolate why the snake's offer of the apple of knowledge leads directly to clothing wearing, and why God is outraged by this sight. The apple gives the knowledge that you can change the world around you to become more pleasing to you rather than accept God's world as it is, such as by putting something else on top of you because it's a bit nippy today or you're tired of twigs scratching you in sensitive places.

[patnigabdul]

Moving on

I broke into shoes that I never wore

They are grey with blue strings

I walked and walked just to take one step away

4 Blisters on my feet are a lesson in grace

[pomegranatechrysanthemum]

[voidic3ntity]

still so coldly clinging to my soul as a weaponized deception:

sat upon the pew which it has carved within my own larynx,

from the mouth of gilgamesh does cryptic allegory come;

akin to each momentary fragment of disillusioned pain.

[patnigabdul]

There's a boy beside me

Long and asleep

There's a girl beside him

Forlorn

My heart punctuates with his presence

His.. nevermind

[patnigabdul]

Road not taken - 2

I am at the the woods

Where Robert once stood

I see a grassy unworn path

A lonely aftermath

I don't know about the road less traveled

For my want is the same as many've unraveled

There's also where it is trodden black

Might have stones that easily crack

I made a promise to be lighter and less

Where road not taken is not a bother, a miss

One day if I am blessed I hope to say

The road I took didn't matter anyway.

[longseasons]

[elljayvee]

when I was in college in the 1990s I took a document design course and we had to go talk to an archivist at the university library

the library had a single page from a gutenberg bible (the bible had been damaged by fire and the remaining undamaged pieces cut apart and sold) and a CD sitting next to each other

we looked at the bible page, marveling at this 500+ year old page with its neatly set type, carefully kept under a sheet of glass to protect it

and then she held up the CD and pointed out that in 500 years, if a CD could even last that long, it was unlikely we'd possess the technology to read it

and we all got very quiet and look at the book page for a long time

and is evidenced by the fact I'm telling you about this almost 30 years later, I have never forgotten that blank-looking shiny piece of plastic sitting next to a beautiful, ancient piece of paper that someone pressed words into with a machine and left for me to read, hundreds of years before I was born.

[astercontrol]

So true. So poetic, so heartbreaking (to think of how much is being lost by not caring about this)

an interesting thought that occurred to me while thinking about the differences between the CD and the printed page:

in both cases, how useful they are as archive material depends largely on whether we will have the capacity to read them in the future

but for the CD, this capacity will have to include the existence of certain machinery, and the knowledge of how to use it

and for the printed page, it only needs to include human sight, literacy and reading comprehension (with some history and linguistics knowledge as well)

this is, unfortunately, also not a perfectly preservable part of the archive effort.

a page from a Gutenberg bible is a very fitting example, because in the present day we are very aware of the effects of how little of the Bible people can actually understand in its original context.

some parts nobody still has the context to interpret at all--we can only guess.

and with other parts historians are fairly confident they know what was meant-- but the masses of regular people basing their decisions on the Bible would still rather go with their own gut feelings, or what their parents or their pastor told them.

the more written material is preserved, of course, the more people can understand any of it. But the prevalence of understanding (as opposed to misinterpretation) is dependent on people actually taking the trouble to read, a lot.

Which, yes, is more likely when we have printed paper to archive. (Data saved on a CD or other digital format still won't be as sure a thing, because it needs both human comprehension and mechanical decoding means.)

but I still fear the loss of the human comprehension part of things.

honestly? the only part of the present-day world that actually gives me hope, about the possibility that humans can retain the capacity to read a multi-paragraph text and actually pay attention and remember and understand most of it?

Is Tumblr.

We mock this site's reading comprehension. And I know why-- I, too, have seen the small percentage of people who will show up with horribly bad takes on any sufficiently popular post.

But everyplace else-- from Reddit to my boss's email inbox-- is SO much worse.

[librarian-by-day]

These three posts reflect central parts of librarianship: access, preservation, and knowledge.

Sometimes, different goals are actively in tension with each other, like in the first post.

We have no idea how long lasting the cloud will be, but online classes (with access to ebooks and digital materials) open up a huge amount of access to those materials and those classrooms. That includes everything from not needing a car to attend classes to being able to use a screen reader to read an ebook. But how long will any of it last?

I go through thousands of dollars to collect new materials. And every time I choose books, I have to decide if the book should be physical or digital. We're a commuter school, so we buy more ebooks than physical books.

But we regularly alternate between the different vendors who sell ebooks in case one of them goes out of business and we lose their books.

Ebooks also cost so much (especially for institutional access), that purchasing a majority of ebooks hamstrings our budget. Which leaves less room (and frankly less time) for purchasing physical books. Our physical stacks are much older than our ebook collection, which makes our physical collection less useful for research.

Physical books are an investment I know can last us 100 years. When I throw out physical books, they're regularly 100 years old. (Important things go to Special Collections, but I cannot stress enough how many ridiculous or awful books were published 100 years ago. We *literally* do not have the space to save everything, and not everything is worth the resources to save, or even should be saved for that matter. A memoir from the '70s about a teen who was "kidnapped" - but not actually - by a group of Hare Krishnas can just be tossed. People get so upset about getting rid of books that I am proactively justifying the need to make space on our shelves for new materials.)

And physical books are so much cheaper than ebooks! But my priority is making sure students have what they need to get through college. For my commuter campus, ebooks are accessible all the time, even after we close at 8pm.

A whole part of my job is deciding between all these factors every time I purchase books.

[victusinveritas]

[ariaste]

I would make a small tweak to Deliciousness -- in my opinion, Deliciousness can be any deeply pleasurable sensory experience, not just taste. So yes, eating something really delicious is a great form of Deliciousness, but other Delicious things might include: laying under a warm pile of blankets, going to an art museum, petting a soft cat, listening to your absolute favorite song, watching a movie that makes you feel something deeply, or stopping to smell the roses while you're Walking About. To me, deliciousness is partially about existing in the moment and engaging with Intentionality in the act of commonplace sensory enjoyment.

[5ellaal5]

Walking around - moving around a place, familiar or unfamiliar, at a slow enough speed to be able to do the other things on the list

Fellowship - feeling a connection with another being. Could be friends. Could be a stranger. Could be that tree or a cool rock.

Deliciousness - savoring (as ariaste elaborated above) anything through any senses. Including imagination, interoception or proprioception. Feel it and enjoy it.

Transcendence - awe, purpose, meaning, the first clarification did a good job

Goofing - play, frolic, delight, humor, experimentation without a need for success

Amelioration - this is both adding more to, and also repairing. It could be learning something new, practicing something known, healing something broken, filling in something lost

Coitus - I’m going to add not just sexual connection but also hugging, cuddling, dancing; any sort of rhythmic collaborative physical movement with another person (that’s better with trust and play)

Enthrallment - already clarified well: hyperfocus, delight, concentration, mesmerization, being in love with or in lust with

Wild card - other things that provide a Sense of Coherence