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@threadgills an old Austin relic Reflects the new Austin 👉🏻 Tap 2 if you 💕 Austin old and new 👀 Tag your fave new Austin place 📷 @austinatxlife in your best 🌮📷for a share! Who needs #gargoyles when you have #armadillos (at Threadgill's)
So I have an #aspie. If you know anything about kids on the spectrum you know they have below zero ability to wait for ANYTHING!!! So it’s REALLY rough to surprise them. As a single mom, about all I get for Christmas is seeing them happy. I gave up the need to take joy in their surprise because this is about as much joy as an aspie exhibits ~~~~~> 😳. I had to legit take a Valium to surprise my oldest one and that only happened once. Ok... I didn’t really take a Valium. What I did is keep it to myself when I bought him tickets to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. I coached myself all day the day before to be able to handle every single “what is it!!!???” that was asked. On the entire trip there I was tackling that over and over like the poor guy on 50 first Dates; because each time it was asked it was as if the child had never heard me say “I’m not TELLING! it’s a surprise!!!” Anyway that was my one shining moment as an aspie Mom. I finally surprised him! Fast forward.. now that aspie is 23 and I have another one that is 11. (Dont ask, it’s better that way). And by all means don’t let that innocent face fool you! What he’s holding is not just any chewy. This chewy is THE CHEWY! Aka one of his CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!!! 😡😡😡😡. I got him something pretty expensive that he’s been begging for for over a year so I don’t have much for him to open. This kid! I kept telling him he’d never find them because I had it thrown in a pile in my room that looks like ross dressfoless and stein mart went partying last night and couldn’t figure out what to wear. I figured, as aspie Mom, I would just hide it in plain sight because they never look THERE! 👀 Anyway, that little sucker found his cute chewy!! I had been so excited to be able to see him open that up 😡. Ruined!!!! Considering that the increasing crescendo of “can I open a present now Mom” was hitting unbearable highs, I decided to make this a life lesson and at the same time purchase myself some “quiet” insurance for the next 8 days at the expense of his feelings 😬. I said a few bad words and ranted and wailed about how as a single mom the only thing I get for Christmas is to see him open his prese (at Austin, Texas)
It’s an oasis but it’s not a spa, and it’s not even a water park but if you love cool clear water and vibrant health, you will love this place! It’s a small juice bar now, But it started out in filtered water sales. @chadsitzman, a local chiropractor, bought the water filtering stand next door to his practice and turned it into a mecca of hydra-goodness in the middle of what can sometimes be the desert of Central Texas. 🙌🏻. Swipe left to see more goodness 👉🏻click link in bio to read whole post 👊🏻 tag a friend you’d like to hydrate with! 📷@wilcoraves #buddhasbrew #hydrate #paleo #juice #smoothie #gtx #atx #centraltexas #water #health #kangen #boarshead #kombucha (at Hydrate: Smoothie & Juice bar. Boar's Head sandwich shop)
Be #dope! #atxvibes (at Austin, Texas)
Such a fun time at APR!! drop your fave game pics below! (at Austin Panic Room)
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I hope that one day you love someone. I mean really love them. I hope you love them not only in spite of their idiosyncrasies and faults. But also because of them.
I hope one day that you see someone. I mean really see them. I hope you see them not only in their humanness and frailty, but also in the strengths and in the amazing qualities those weaknesses build.
I hope one day you want someone. I mean really want them. I hope you want them inside and out. Not only on their good days where they shine brighter than the stars, but on their bad days, when they are hidden, broken and maybe in despair.
I hope one day you trust someone. I mean really trust them. I hope you trust them with wild, insatiable and incredible abandon, heart, mind, soul and body. Not only when they provide you with all of the safeties and concerns, but also against all odds, in those moments where everything in you screams that it’s not worth the fear.
I hope one day you hear someone. I mean really hear them. I hope you hear past the cognitive dissonance their roles in life deploy and hear their dreams, their passions and their truth. Not only that, I hope you hear the fears and failures that have brought them to it.
I hope one day you experience someone. I mean really experience them. Not only through the highs, but also the lows. And everywhere in between. I hope you get to do life with them and see the goodness they bring to not only you, but the world. I hope you experience them through joy and sorrow, health and wealth, sickness and poverty.
I hope that one day you reach across all of the fears, inconsistencies, red flags and oddities. I hope one day you find your way out from behind the walls you’ve built to stay safe and I hope one day you live.
I hope you really live.
Rj
The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold. ~Thomas Cole
Great #rain #morning with a #rainbow and #donuts #roundrock #roundrocktx #myroundrock #roundrocklife #atx #texas #texasbest #atxlife #instafood #instasky #hutto #georgetown #gtx (at Krack of Dawn Donuts & Breakfast)
This is a #breakfast #salad with #spinach, sausage, egg and #cheese. I added #basil and golden #tomatoes and cherry tomatoes and thin green onions from my #organic garden at the #RoundRockareaservingCenter. I topped it with some #avocado dressing from HEB. I honestly didn't think it would be very good but oh my gosh I could eat this for the rest of my life!! #primal down #atx #instafood, #instafoodie. (at Round Rock Area Serving Center)
#me and my #mohops #mohop best #shoes #wedges EVER! #HAPPY #mothersday
Mother…. The word brings up so many feelings and whether those feelings are warm and comforting or upsetting and anxiety producing, they all relate to the most important person in our lives. If our mother had not chosen to stay pregnant and birth us, we would not be here. That’s pretty significant. No one is motherless. We all have a mother, whether we know her and get to experience life with her, or lose her (whether it was her choice or not) way too soon, we all have a mother. And unfailingly, our experiences with our mother dictate how we feel when we think of the day that we are supposed to celebrate her.
Mother’s Day…. For me, the words expose the void within. No matter how many years pass, it still awakens an ache. There is so much I’d like to know, so much I’d like to talk about. There are so many memories we didn’t get to make. She only saw one daughter graduate and that was from kindergarten. One moment she was there, the next she was gone. The insidious “punch in the gut” feeling of being told this never goes away. It hides and then sucker punches me at the strangest times. After all of these years, 43 to be exact, you would think I could get through mother’s day without crying. It hides and I forget that I need to make plans to be with my sister and our families and then #boom…it’s too late. I have to decide if I’m going to pretend that the day and my pain doesn’t exist or if I’m going try to focus on my own motherhood and hope I don’t have an emotional melt down at church while playing the ‘big pretend’. I experience so many feelings on this day, joy for my boys and gratitude for my own motherhood, joy for others who still get to celebrate with their mothers and then, in contrast the sadness that pulls at each joy as I try to tuck away thoughts of “what would it have been like if she’d turned 28, 38, 68?”. Of all feelings, the guilt is the strongest. Guilt that my boys don’t have a grandmother, guilt that I can’t just “get over it” and celebrate that I’m a mother to my boys, without this hunger to have had more time with her; guilt that I’m a little jealous of people who reach milestone after milestone with their mothers, and a deep sadness for others who are in my situation, especially my sister and my nieces, and for those who never had a loving mother at all.
As the years pass, I’m beginning to accept the conundrum of complex feelings. I greet them and I’m OK with them although I still wish that I could just look at the bright side, and only the bright side. I acknowledge and honor my feelings both the good and the bad. Then, I can celebrate my own motherhood and the motherhood of my friends. I can celebrate my dad’s wife in the woman who’s brought him joy and companionship for almost 30 years; I can just celebrate life and the moment, however fleeting, that I have with every person that I love.
I am not alone. I can feel my mom’s heart as I calm one of my anxious children, or talk to my sister or my niece’s or my dad about her, I can feel her breath in a gentle breeze in my hair and her kiss as the sun warms my face. I can experience her joy and faithfulness as spring comes unfailingly after even the darkest and coldest of winters! I can feel her hands as I play the piano and imagine her voice as I write a new song. I can experience her love and spirituality as I read her bible, the word of the Savior she loved so much. I am alive.
Mother, to have one, and to be one, is the greatest gift. And no matter how I get there, that is the truth I end back up at, every year.
Happy Mother’s day! And blessings to all of those who struggle with juxtaposed feelings on this emotional day. My prayer is that you will be blessed this mothers day! My prayer is that no matter if your mother is here, or there, or even if she was not what you needed her to be, you will find joy and celebrate the life she gifted to you, in the moments with the people around you that bring peace, love, faithfulness and joy into your life. No matter your situation, a mothers love is why you are here. Celebrate that. Celebrate YOU!
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