[tenderexpressions]

changed my user from keepmeinprayer to tenderexpressions to match where my heart is at now

[tenderexpressions]

I just finished Neon Genesis Evangelion today. You don’t really understand what people mean when they talk about it the way they do until you get maybe halfway through the show and definitely by the time you get past episode 20. I don’t even think I watched the show, I think I was just a witness to whatever was going on.

[bunbunsheart]

hi so recently there was a very strong earthquake in Venezuela that left so many people deeply affected including my family that lives there. The government obviously doesn't have the means to help its people with the current economic situation and all so I would really appreciate some monetary help as my grandpa and aunt are currently struggling, their home is barely livable at this point (theres multiple cracks in the infraestructure) and they're in dire need of basic need products (food is scarce due to the high demand) There's also some direct friends of the family that were deeply affected and I would like to help them too, any dollar or sharing helps

➛ here's my paypal

[starlightacademia]

— Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi, Ghazal 265 (via starlightacademia)

[citylights-nightsky]

[tenderexpressions]

This cop gave me a traffic violation for “my license plate cover covering the writing on my license plate” like I haven’t been driving with this license plate cover for four years. Today, his shift was close to ending and he needed to meet his quota so he decided to shit on me? I wish I could curse like a Kenyan right now oh my GOD the bounds of my current imagination are not enough to relieve the annoyance I feel!!!!!!!!

[thebellavita]

[purehoneyy]

[tenderexpressions]

Levels to modes of being after a regular meditation in my experience are like this:

Awareness (of triggers, influences)

Ability to limit access of triggers/influences on your mind (things still affect you, but you are disciplined enough to not put yourself or to remove yourself from situations where those things exist)

Ability to handle influences (you are no longer affected by things that used to influence you even if they are present)

What is so fun about these modes of being are that they do not exist like regular levels where you pass through one level and never have to go through it ever again. It is more like you might be at the last level for one thing and the second level for another thing and the first level for yet another thing. And this is way more nuanced than I am putting it here because there are levels to the levels!

[stuckinapril]

goodnight

[thewiseone-owl]

[conspectusargosy]

Hibiscus!

[achillesinhighheels]

[tenderexpressions]

I am reading “The Dissident Daughter” by Sue Monk Kidd and she emphasizes in the book how we all, but women especially, need to tell our stories. When we express our thoughts and experiences, it opens up the world more for others to see reality in a different way and encourages them to do the same for the same reason. What would this world be if people did not dream and pursue their dreams relentlessly? I think of how Alice Walker and Toni Morrison and Octavia E. Butler and Kali Uchis have created dimensions with their pens and how I want to do the same. I want to bring to life a world that exists outside of capitalism and gender roles and race. I think of my co-workers who appear resigned to lives where they have to take care of their husbands as if they are children on top of caring for the actual fruit of their wombs and themselves. The world can be much bigger than it is if we resist and push and imagine and sacrifice the things that do not serve the world we want to create.

All of these experiences make my heart feel so full it could burst!

[archivearchangelica]

reorganized bedroom, 2008

[eesirachs]

my best friend is dying. i’ve talked of her before, the one from the convent. if you’re the praying type please tell god (and her favorite, st. joseph) to look out for her in these hours and in the next life

[tenderexpressions]

The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”