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casper, 22, they/it

[markgraysn]

blue paintings + solitude

rick humphrey / aron wiesenfeld / charlotte ager / holly warburton / devin leonardi / richard cartwright

[ericacrochets]

Velvet & Lace Blanket by Yarnspirations Design Studio

Free Crochet Pattern Here

[spaceboytoy]

Hello bisexual community

[spaceboytoy]

Begin killing

[nyanbinyuri]

[legendary-scholar-deactivated20]

[indigodreams]

Archaeology & Art@archaeologyart·

Golden cicada on a jade leaf, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). This sculpture was discovered in a tomb in 1954: it is the top of a hairpin, belonging to a woman of high rank. The imagery of a cicada on a leaf had a double meaning and was a high compliment paid to beautiful women. .

[lilascent]

i have stitched life into me like a rare organ

[2percentsugar]

i wish all affluent people who are in college and make nonstop jokes about being poor a very understand that poverty is not a temporary condition

[2percentsugar]

if you are poor for four years and know the exact date at which it will end, you have not experienced poverty.

this is the same reason that "politicians should have to live a month on minimum wage to see what it's like" doesn't work. poverty is a lack of resources beyond monetary ones. it's not having family members you can borrow money from. it's not having a place to stay if you were outdoors for a bit. it's not having the nice kitchen equipement with which you could make food more cheaply. it's having to buy cheaper things which will break sooner because you can't afford the better ones.

the bit about knowing the end date is not a semantic point to make me feel better. if you know you'll be out of this soon, it enables you to make choices you otherwise couldn't. you can splurge on pizza delivery or spend half your paycheck on good shoes because it isn't real. if a crisis comes, the irreality of this situation allows you to deal with it. you can ask your parents for money, you can stay with someone for a while. impoverished people can't.

i think a lot of times otherwise progressive people come out of college more classist because they think they know what it's like to be poor now, and they made the right choices, so why doesn't everyone else? you weren't, and you didn't. poverty is more than that.

[nyctaeus]

Luisa de Donato, Judith and Holophernes, 2014, sculpture resin and hornets

[figdays]

Small Strawberry Tea Cosies // AddictedToKnittingCo

[akhuna]

I have three WIPs at the moment, all socks. I love every minute of it.

[comfortabletextiles]

SOCKS!!

The brown is my favorite, it’s so texture 🤩

[kafk-a]

Arna Óttarsdóttir, Circle of Life (Six Ladies Braiding Each Others Hair), 2011, wool, linen, cotton

[thekimonogallery]

1925 umbrella ad. Japan.

[lazyyogi]

“If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.”

— Adyashanti

[bogus-nonsense]

[thichnhathanhgems]

Life is found only in the present moment. I think we should have a holiday to celebrate this fact. We have holidays for so many important occasions - Christmas, New Year’s, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, even Earth Day - why not celebrate a day when we can live happily in the present moment all day long? I would like to declare today ”Today’s Day”, a day dedicated to touching the Earth, touching the sky, touching the trees, and touching the peace that is available in the present moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, in ”Essential Writings”.

[errantabbot]

The Zennist’s Life of Practice

The practice of Zen isn’t really all that difficult, it just requires honesty and persistence.

Furthermore, Zen isn’t goal based. The object of our practice isn’t awakening, it’s awakened living, that is, a way of being informed by a constant recalibration of the heart to reality.

Just as a physician never becomes practiced, but rather is ever practicing, the Zennist never arrives, but perhaps orbits nearer and nearer around a living vision of reality that, when engaged with accord, does three things, namely:

1.) Precludes one from suffering;

2.) Predisposes one toward the compassionate embrace of each and every moment alongside the beings who populate them and

3.) Informs one’s engagement of those moments with an air of wisdom and fearlessness.

~Sunyananda

[thichnhathanhgems]