reasons to Not Be Dead

unrelatable content about things i want to remember. always ok to reblog!

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me thinking about every female friend: Wow she is just very cool. What a cool lady. Glad she is my friend

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eating a warm, juicy tomato right off the vine

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when the times get rough and I lose sight of the goal i just. reread “the orange” by wendy cope again & remember. that’s where I’m going folks. sooner or later, whatever it takes.

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At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.

– “The Orange,” Wendy Cope

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I awoke this morning struck with a profound sense that i do not want to die. I want to live! 

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A bug i don’t recognize visits me and climbs through my leg hair. My friend informs me she’s a cucumber beetle. I watch her until she’s ready to leave.

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Women singing together, volume rising as time goes on, shedding the armor of self consciousness in favor of offering your voice to each other’s bodies

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Cows on a hill as seen from the highway

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Kids on school buses getting really really excited that you waved back at them

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have you ever pet a bumblebee. i went to a botanical garden with my gf once and there was a Bug Garden, there were so many butterflies and bumblebees, and the bumblebees were so plump and fluffy, i couldnt help but pet one… so i did! it was soft

[lookataleaf3000]

my religion is other women. this isn’t tongue in cheek. my religion congregates around a fire, in a cramped room we booked to talk, in an idling car for way too long, in someone’s living room, in the cold because there’s more to say and hear. there is a spark of divinity i know to look for when she says something she’s never said out loud before. there is a spiritual rumble in the dehydrated voices of women who aren’t used to saying so much. when i hear another woman articulate something i’ve never been able to, that’s the voice of my god speaking to me. its ancient, forbidden knowledge, and it fills my body with my self. there’s power in our warm red blood.

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have you ever eaten a mango in the ocean bc there is no better argument for occupying a body

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After his chilling and confident directorial debut, "Get Out," Jordan Peele wants to make four more "social thrillers" over the next decade.

Peele is giving us the social commentary horror film GET OUT. If you did not hear about it yet, you will. In “Get Out,” a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) finds himself in a very messed up situation —actually a massive understatement — when he goes out to the country to visit his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) family. We won’t give anything else away, but if you’ve seen the trailer, you can get a hint of how Peele created a unique chiller that explores real ideas and attitudes about race, some of them quite ugly.

But he won’t be done with that movie, apparently.. more are coming. 

From Jason Guerrasio:

But this is far from a one-and-done for Peele. He recently told Business Insider that “Get Out” is the first in a collection of movies he wants to direct that examine what he calls “social demons.”

“I have four other social thrillers that I want to unveil in the next decade,” Peele told Business Insider. “The best and scariest monsters in the world are human beings and what we are capable of especially when we get together. I’ve been working on these premises about these different social demons, these innately human monsters that are woven into the fabric of how we think and how we interact, and each one of my movies is going to be about a different one of these social demons.”

Peele’s examination of race and alienation in “Get Out” is an impressive, confident directorial debut. We can’t wait to see what he will throw at us next, though we’re also pretty afraid.

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GOD IS GOOD

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Me and Ashlee (who is beautiful and has never done a wrong thing in her life) are going to a fair today

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Our future house with dogs running around our yard. The house will have a library/game room, space to hold Halloween and Christmas parties, and a garden of flowers and fresh veggies that we will weed together in the spring and summer. It'll be our space to do with as we please and it'll be filled with light and laughter and gay.

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this right here.