Row for Eternity

I row sometimes 

[heroinwasmyhero]

[fiveseatisthepowerhouse]

“Size wise, you guys aren’t big, but that isn’t going to stop you. You’ve got to hang your whole body weight on that oar, hang all your hopes and all your dreams on it every stroke, and you’ll move the god damn boat just as well and anybody else.”

-my coach to the team after we saw our competition

Size isn’t everything. Efficiency, technique, and solid power/weight ratio will beat out raw power and size.

[justnoodlefishthings]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

DO NOT MAKE YOUR ANIMALS SUFFER

[deglorath]

Seriously, don’t put your ideological bullshit onto your animals which CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MEAT!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

If someone is vegan and is not comfortable with feeding an animal meat then put simply they should not have a pet that eats meat

End of story

There are pets they can get that DON’T need meat to live

But if you aren’t okay with feeding an animal meat DO NOT get a dog or a cat

[yourowglencoco-deactivated20180]

The Beauty of Rowing - A poem

Early rise, those eager wake, Crack open the glass upon the lake.

Gracefully gliding, slicing, drifting, The peaceful air suddenly shifting.

A forceful heaving, muscles tense. Breathing quickens. Pain immense.

From beyond the lake they only view Harmonious rhythms through and through.

Flying puddles the only trace As the quiet boat propels it’s pace.

So many will live their lives not knowing The unique beauty that is found in rowing.

[fiveseatisthepowerhouse]

It’s winter training.

I have not left the gym in a week. I have forgotten the feel of sunlight. The laundry basket is full of nothing but spandex. I have eaten so many eggs. So much pasta. I lay down to sleep and I feel like I am still on an erg. Back and forth back and forth.

I love winter training.

[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

[source]

[sashiscorner]

I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

[jadedsoggy]

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

[rooksandravens]

I need to be more like tree

[azzandra]

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

[sailorofships]

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

[dangerbooze]

HOLY SHIT

[weloveshortvideos]

[colombianreina]

Me every night

[sixpenceee]

An archaeological dig on the Menemonee Reservation in Wisconsin yielded a clay pot. The pot was dated to 800 years ago and contained seeds. Some of the seeds were planted to see if 800 year old seeds were viable. An ancient squash was the result. 

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

This is the coolest fucking thing, and don’t try and tell me otherwise.

[blogtitletaken]

Oh my god I have people who need to know this

[actuallythomyorke]

Life is so fucking cool

[sixpenceee]

Probably why beluga whales were mistaken as mermaids. (Source)

[therowinglife]

[noortherndownpoour]

Concept: I’m laying on your lap while you play with my hair and our puppy snuggles against your leg. Chinese take out boxes are stacked neatly on the coffee table. A rerun of our favorite show is playing in the background. We don’t have anywhere to be tomorrow except in bed with each other. The bad feelings have left and we’ve finally made it.

[audaciousmentality-deactivated2]

everything about this makes my heart flutter

[three-peach]

[row-for-eternity]

IT THIS HEAVEN 😍😍

[lifepro-tips]

When To Buy Everything

[homedecordream]

[wittacism241253-deactivated2016]

It’s essay writing season for tons of students!

After being a college writing tutor for over a year, I thought I would share my advice with all you awesome people on tumblr. This is how I write essays, but if you’ve got more tips, feel free to add them below. 

Happy writing. You can do it!

[row-for-eternity]

🙌🏼

[piratesofthecaribbean]

[thecrowdedmindofjohnnydepp]

 ”no u arent doing it right let me demonstrate”

[jacks-compass-deactivated201411]

Johnny depp teaching other johnny depps so they can rule the world in his absence

[toxeh]

The mother Depp teaches its Depplings how to behave in the wild. 

[demon-moose]

depplings

[joli--coeur]

Spent a little bit of my day in this spot. 🌧 Instagram: kokokourtney