the germarican

beck. 21. wanderlust. dancer. catwoman. yes.

[lorettabosence]

Scott Outdoor Amphitheatre, Swarthmore College, PA. Designed by Thomas Sears and completed in 1942. 

2ft high retaining walls are made from layers of local schist slabs and the randomly spaced trees are Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Tree) and Quercus alba (White Oak).

I love the idea of a ‘turf proscenium floor’ and it looks like a great place to learn. I can imagine this kind of space would conform to the theories of design laid out in ‘A Pattern Language’ by Christopher Alexander…

http://tclf.org/landscapes/scott-outdoor-amphitheater

[fores-ttrial-blog]

Looks like a scene from Swan Lake, how beautiful. 

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[misspelledlife]

SLAAAAY TORONTO IM SO PROUD OF THIS

[jonnovstheinternet]

I’m starting to think Canadians are the best people ever

[farkie]

dipstick

[colourofthepast]

[beers-not-tears-deactivated2014]

[archatlas]

[archatlas]

Yann Arthus Bertrand

[lapetiteflamme]

[thegermarican-blog]

sad because

I don't want to leave my beautiful and perfect apartment with my perfect front porch and perfect side yard under the perfect pine trees.  I don't want to live somewhere without these 1970's green kitchen chairs or my dream catcher collection or flowers in wine bottles.  The sun it setting and the light is streaming perfectly through my big living room windows and I'm sitting on the floor with tears on my cheeks because in four days this will no longer be mine and neither will this old tv stand that I found in someone's garage or the washer and dryer I found in the Pennysaver.  This is hard hard hard and so much harder than I ever anticipated but this is the only home I've had in the better part of the last decade that actually FELT like a home and now I'm giving it up.  I'm taking five steps back and living in two places at once, with my things scattered who-knows-where and spending my time driving over ten hours in any given week just to keep up with my life.  I'm leaving my friends, and family, and any sense of home that I've gained.  It's a fresh start and it is oh so miserable.  I don't want to leave.  I don't want to go.  I don't want to move.  Now the sadness has turned into anger and I have a headache in the back of my eye that makes me regret ever agreeing to this.  Regret regret regret is all I feel.  I want to take it back.  I want to go back to this fall and pause.  Reconsider.

[rackensackstate]

America’s fifty states have a lot in common, but if their internet search histories are any indication they also have significant differences. Estately ran hundreds of search queries through Google Trends to determine which words, terms, and questions each state was searching for more than any other. The results ranged from mildly amusing to completely disturbing. No doubt this information will come in handy for anyone trying to decide which state they want to buy a home in, especially for those curious how their potential neighbors spend their time online. 

[carmorty-deactivated20160315]

Why Illinois, why

[turning0nthelatheofheaven]

Canadian men!

[terfect-deactivated20140719]

"back shaving" oh my gOD

[locsgirl-deactivated20141225]

Never would have guessed. =0

[cardamomz]

Get the unicorn tattoo. Convert. Tattoo removed.

[soloikismos]

the truth is out there nuevo mexico

[eastsidestoners]

Butt implants

[sunshine--daisys-blog]

Seriously, Thumb Wrestling?

[with-grace-and-guts]

[berrysherlockholmes]

[lulz-time]

A short story of a college students life

[tomhanksy]

[10knotes]

That street art life though.

[oldpoloniall-blog]

[pianister-deactivated20131210]

people who bite ice cream with their front teeth are on a whole different level

[b-agatela]

[delreigns]

[thegermarican-blog]

sext: lets go to a farmers market and buy organic produce

sext even harder: let’s grow a garden together and cook from our own.

[comemorningslight]

Today little sister cracks open a second egg and mom’s eyes dart across the kitchen. 'You are not supposed to eat more than one egg a day you know that is far too much cholesterol.’ The first meal I ate at the hospital was a two-egged omelette drenched in cheese. My mother sat across from me while the nurses and social workers retaught her how to feed me. They told her I was not allowed to hide cheese under my plate, or pick off the tortilla shell and avoid the egg yolk. They told her there were new rules, now 3000 to 5000 calories a day, every day no more sugar-free jello egg whites and tea That night we went to the grocery store and felt the world tilt upside down We walked passed the low fat, no cholesterol sugar-free Until we hit the goldmine: poppyseed muffins, ice cream bars whole milk full fat butter. Foods that would make my heart beat regularly again and put life back in my eyes. Today I tell my mother I think it is fine for little sister to eat two eggs, cholesterol be damned. But she looks me in the eye and says “It’s different for you.” This is the same phrase she repeats when I ask her why she does not want us to cook noodles for mother’s day dinner or why she is not eating sugar this week. It is a phrase which means: because you showed so much control that you grew out of control You are Hereby Exempt from the Dieting Culture It is a phrase which means, ‘I am drawing a firm line between the South Beach diet The No-Carb diet The No-Sugar diet The Atkins diet The You Are Inherently Flawed and in Need of Fixing Diet and illness.’ Because nobody likes to think about the fact that perhaps we are all playing with fire that perhaps The American Dream (and by this I mean weight loss) is nothing but a smokescreen. That perhaps shrinking oneself successfully does not actually move mountains, paint your soul in bright gold, or part the seas. That perhaps making ourselves disappear won’t fix the real problems our good intentions will never pave the path to heaven. Tomorrow when I wake up I am going to breathe in the morning air and thank the universe for poppyseed muffins, ice cream bars whole milk full fat butter I am going to change the world and fry two eggs for breakfast.

Sarah T, Two Eggs (via bravegirl-living)

omg you’re amazing

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