C'est La Vie

As toddlers, when my brother was upset I'd sing him the macho man song until he laughed. That's still me. I'm still Jenny from the block.

[strawbarrymore]

Bob Marley- Waiting In Vain (cover)

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my heart tonight

this song is eerily appropriate

[strawbarrymore]

Hi, haven't been here in a while. In my feelings this morning. Here ya go.

[strawbarrymore]

Girl, love yourself. 

Love yourself.

Love yourself.

Love yourself.

Love yourself.

Love yourself.

Love yourself.

Love yourself too.

Love yourself to life.

[refinery29]

Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shut down a Trump supporter claiming you shouldn’t believe all the racism surrounding Trump’s campaign

Both Adichie and Emmett Tyrrell were discussing the role of racism in the U.S. presidential election, particularly in relation to President-elect Trump’s campaign, when Adichie made a salient point about the conversation around racism that has resonated with viewers, creating a viral clip that’s being shared across the internet.

Gifs: BBC Newsnight

WATCH THE FULL CLIP

[witchy-fawna]

Strongly recommend watching the entire video

[strawbarrymore]

I can’t stop watching and reading about all of this.

[strawbarrymore]

I used to LIVE on tumblr. 

I don’t even know where my head is at anymore. I wish that depression and anxiety didn’t make up my life. I have to believe that I’ll make it back out. I’ve done it many times before and I’ll do it again. If I ever felt like I was in purgatory before I sure as hell feel it now. I’m in between all the time. 

I’m looking for feeling and the things that make me happy but I feel almost totally numb and disconnected. I don’t like or want that anymore.

I don’t know how to build my home in myself and in the place where I am in and the important and good people in my life. I don’t know how to make that enough. I’m trying but something is missing. Existing is a mess. I think I’ve been this way for a year. Usually I get a 3-6 month breaks where I feel healthy mind and body.

Gotta find my way.

[aheadfullofbooks]

“I like to show women who exist in solitude but do not suffer. They are not depressed or crying. Rather [they] are safe, exalting in the sense of enjoying the company of just herself.”

Postmodern Loneliness is a series by Mexico-based artist Idalia Candelas.

[strawbarrymore]

Standing outside waiting for Peter Pan to get off work. I heard an instrument and looked up but it was another Peter Pan man playing another instrument.

[dorrismccomics]

[thelovejournals]

She is not ‘my girl.’ She belongs to herself. And I am blessed, for with all her freedom, she still comes back to me, moment-to-moment, day-by-day, night-by-night. How much more blessed can I be?

Avrahan Chaim, Thoughts after the alchemist (via thelovejournals) Goals

[poetryeater]

Define loneliness? Yes. It’s what we can’t do for each other.

from Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (via poetryeater)

[strawbarrymore]

Got me fucked up like "never wanted your love but I needed it all"

[strawbarrymore]

Only signed on to quickly post that I miss my old roommate. He's the best friend I've ever had here. A shit day on either end was remedied by our kitchen-to-porch-to-kitchen-to-porch-to-sometimes-livingroom conversations. Along with living under the same roof, he had became a symbol of home for me. I had an awareness of this but I couldn't know how valuable our friendship had been until I left that house and then he left that house. Yeah. I'm going to miss you too, dude. I'm so inclined to get more intentional with the writing but I'm going to save that for myself to flesh out later and, maybe, share another time.

[laughingsquid]

The Present, A Touching Animated Short Film About a Boy and His New Dog

[strawbarrymore]

Good one.

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A good last thing to reblog before social media/Internet entertainment hiatus. For at least until I graduate I guess. I’m not feeling mentally strong enough to forgo without a physical post holding me accountable. 

So here it is brain! Here’s your check. The Internet will be here when you get back. Go prioritize and work hard. We know this. We’ve done this before and are so capable of choosing the way we experience and give life to life.

[thegirlwhocrieswolf]

New piece, hope you like it! xo Lang 

………….

My NEW book Memories is now available via Amazon, BN.com + The Book Depository

[strawbarrymore]

This that ‘When Harry Met Sally’/ ‘One Day’ kinda love. I love those movieeeeesssss.

[cobangy]

November//8//2015

[gencritical]

Ok but why do men always talk to you like they’re trying to teach you something? 

[rawkiss-deactivated20210921]

i learned about this in my comm theory class!!! 

basically when men speak they tend to prove status/higher intelligence but when women speak we tend to seek connections! so like for example: when asking questions- women ask questions to know more about their conversation partner, while men see asking questions as showing no knowledge on the topic. So a man would rather talk about something that makes him more comfortable and makes him seem smarter rather than something that makes him look inferior. 

ALSO!!! when women are communicating with each other, we often have cooperative/positive “interruptions” like asking questions or saying “oh yeah thats happened to me” or “i know how you feel” to show interest in the conversation/build a connection, but men see these kinds of “interruptions” as hijacking the conversation/making them lose their “status” 

[strawbarrymore]

Huh

[paperflowerspress]

I do not need someone to complete me but if you wanted to we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.

Meghan Lynn

(via

kvtes

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Oh. Yes, this.

(via marleyandme)

Mhm mhm