The View Through My Lens

This is just for me, a place where I can play. Queer. Mama. Storytelling + Spirituality. In my concert era. OT5. 💙💚 & 💛💙 & ❤️💛

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Joy Oladokun in Portland March 7

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Daffodils. I noticed these guys pushing up just after Christmas. Today, amid the downpours, hail and thunderstorms, they are stating to bloom. #springing

[elias-stein]

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Indeed. Purebred.

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This is getting such a special place on the fridge!! #harveyjones

[pureblyss]

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman (via homemayde)

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Champagne man... #newyears #2014

[nathanielstuart]

Love is a word that’s been hijacked by greeting card companies, cult leaders, sentimentalists, pop singers, false prophets, romcoms, McDonald’s and a million other unsavory types, who transform the most beautiful thing a human can experience into an inflatable gaudy imitation of itself that they use for their selfish desires and nefarious marketing campaigns. These bastards have made the highest and most intense experience accessible to humans almost impossible to talk about without feeling embarrassed.

Duncan Trussell (via thatkindofwoman)

[5000letters]

I will teach my daughter not to wear her skin like a drunken apology. I will tell her ‘make a home out of your body, live in yourself, do not let people turn you into a regret, do not justify yourself. If you are a disaster it is not forever, if you are a disaster you are the most beautiful one I’ve ever seen. Do not deconstruct from the inside out, you belong here, you belong here, not because you are lovely, but because you are more than that.’

Azra T. “Your hands are threads, your body is a canvas” (via thatkindofwoman)

[howmanyletters]

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“shit it’s raining”

[gpyouthid-blog]

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.

Dalai Lama  (via thatkindofwoman)

[dancingindiversity-blog]

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

David Plotz  (via thatkindofwoman)

So good. Note, research David Plotz.

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...and Elmo rides a motorcycle! #motorcyclemuppet #weirdestcarrideever

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Apparently a Toyota Corolla gets better gas mileage than the reindeer. #santaclause

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Every morning.

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Thanksgiving Table. Happy thanksgiving friends far and near, so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

I am thankful for the difficult people in my life. They have shown me exactly who I don’t want to be.

Unknown (via thatkindofwoman)

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Things to remember, courtesy of Emily McDowell.