[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

http://www.instagram.com/schoolhouse

[ellacalm]

The sound of heavy rain while you are in bed.

[shallweyeslets]

Swapped an old painting out and made some pretty new art for my room

[palomawool]

Albert Riera painted paloma wool’s Napoli trousers.

Barcelona, September 2016.

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!

it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.

and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.

making things have improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.

take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.

[haverst]

SAY THEIR NAMES

source

[unbotheredmuse]

IG: tyrathezombie

[violetattack101]

tbh being able to freely admit when you’re wrong without getting defensive or angry is a skill we should all be working on more as a species

[whitepeopletwitter]

[evilbuildingsblog]

This is how horror movies begin

[withoutyourwalls]

Glenn Ligon, Hands, 1996

[owlmylove]

no one tells you how much of life takes practice. not just writing, painting, running, singing, etc, but practicing how to make friends. how to make the right ones. getting practiced at how to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good person. practice identifying when people haven’t earned that. learning to recognize your right to rage and, eventually, how to offer mercy. so much of life is muscle memory, and i’ve begun to realize there are so many more parts of ourselves to flex and stretch and strengthen than those we’re taught in anatomy lessons

[coffee-in-europe]

“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013, p. 359)

[blackzya]

SKIN

[beyonceprivilege-deactivated201]

spotted in LA #blacklivesmatter

[valtsv]

being weird together is a love language

[gaiahealing-deactivated20200719]

if you are sick of seeing blm posts, i hate to break it to you, but you need to ask yourself why. if you 'just want this to be over with', you need to ask yourself why. i'm not here to tell you what i think of you, i'm simply saying if you want this world to be a better place for everyone, you need to take part in the collapse and transformation, which always starts with you. this is never gonna be over. it never has been. it's been happening for hundreds of years. it's time we take our power back, it's time people of color can use their power freely. question your thoughts, change them, listen.

[swagammemnon]

Absolutely support this, and I would like to add: if you need to take a break from blm, the posts, the protests, the info dump--that is OKAY. It is physically impossible for someone to care so much, about so many things, all the time. Hasan Minhaj articulates it better in Patriot Act on Netflix, it's called 'compassion fatigue,' where you get burnt out from caring so much. And with the current increased occurrence of police brutality and the heart breaking tragedy that comes with it, it's okay to step back, because seeing so much death and injustice every hour of every day isn't healthy for you.

Keep caring, keep loving, keep fighting, but please take care of yourself.

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