Todo se sabe.

Suspend your disbelief. Life is worth it if you believe in it. The world is beautiful. People are wonderful. Love them.The bran is thunder; the raisins, lightning.

[respectacles]

[rylandsgrace]

#amazing

[respectacles]

I read Double Fudge by Judy Blume, probably about 15 years ago, and this one scene always stuck with me, in which Fudge’s family goes on a tour of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing:

Fudge's hand shot up first. Rosie didn't look thrilled but she had no choice. She had to call on him.

“I still need to find out how you get a lot of it all at once,” Fudge said.

“A lot of . . .” Rosie sounded confused.

“Money!” Fudge shouted.

Mom stepped in and tried to explain. “Fudge has become very curious about money,” she told Rosie. “and we thought that by bringing him here . . .”

“I hear what you're saying,” Rosie said to mom. “But somebody has to set him straight.”

“I'll set him straight,” a tall man with silver hair said. “First of all, young man, you need to get a good education. Then, when you're grown up, you need a good job. Then you save something from your salary every week. You invest carefully. You let your money work for you. And by the time you're my age, with luck, you'll have a nice little nest egg for your retirement.”

Our group applauded.

But Fudge still wasn't satisfied. “Or else someone can just give it to you,” he said.

You could hear the tongues clucking and the whispers in the crowd. I heard someone say, “This kid is hopeless.”

Anyway I just remembered this while thinking about the economy and like wow, thank you Fudge for telling it like it is.

[shemakesmusic-uk]

Mary Lattimore - ‘It Feels Like Floating’

[loss-dot-mpreg]

Source

[boredbbyy]

can’t help falling in love on a kalimba

[hogwartsconsultingtimelady]

This radiates calm

[splickedylit]

@toastyhat

[toastyhat-deactivated20180203]

this is magnus burnsides aesthetic

[respectacles]

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

Kent Rogowski: Love = Love, 2006-2008

Love=Love is a series of collages that were created using pieces of over 60 store bought puzzles. Although puzzle pieces are unique, and can only fit into one place within a puzzle, they are sometimes interchangeable within a brand. These puzzles were cut using the same die, but depict unrelated images. Using only the flowers and skies from each of the puzzles, I created a series of entirely new compositions by recombining the puzzle pieces. These spectacular, fantastical and surreal landscapes sit in direct contrast to the banal and bucolic images of the original puzzles. (artist statement)

[invisible-arcs]

guillionnaire

buillotine

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

things boring straight dudes say:

i’ll put it to you this way

fair enough

sure, you could say that

not how i would have said it, but sure

that’s the long and short of it

[respectacles]

i've honestly, literally never felt so called out by a post before

[alienpapacy]

there’s a dispute going on between healthcare provider BlueCross BlueShield and Piedmont Healthcare, a system of hospitals and other healthcare facilities through Georgia, where BlueCross and Piedmont aren’t doing business right now so about 577,000 people in Georgia who are most conveniently located near those hospitals would have to either pay out of pocket, go “somewhere else,” or are just fucked

this is a big problem here in Athens because BlueCross is who does i think the insurance provided by the University to benefits eligible employees and, excepting the small St. Mary’s hospital, Piedmont is THE hospital in town. I delivered flowers there all the time, it’s a huge facility. it’s the largest (and best) hospital in this entire part of the state

and it’s worse in all the other places because other than Atlanta, it’s not like there’s a ton of big cities all over this big ass state, which is a BIG spread out state. half of the population of georgia lives in Metro Atlanta, which is still a huge, spread out, and (in parts) semi-rural [yeah even in metro Atlanta], so that means that 4.7 million other people are spread out all over this state with possibly no place to actually go use the insurance they might have

anyway on top of all this i also have BlueCross and am anxious about it. LOVE TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

edit: to clarify the “577,000″ is specifically people with BlueCross who are located in the service vicinities of a Piedmont facility

[alienpapacy]

it’s so nuts that a health insurance company can say “we don’t wanna pay your doctors and employees” at all and that as a consequence well over half a million people have basically worthless health insurance [well more worthless than american health insurance usually is for people who aren’t wealthy]

[katydidnot]

i was trying to do recipe research for work and this ungodly terror came up

[respectacles]

🥕🥛🤔

[distinguishedbaloney]

[3blush]

[gabieplease]

I’m tryna channel this energy

[invisible-arcs]

@usbdongle

[wordswilling]

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well—this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (via kitduckworth)

[respectacles]

when i cut my nails, i like to do it right after getting out of the shower. i like to put on headphones and listen to something good and cut my nails very carefully and it helps me feel serene.

[knowwhatimeme]