im just a poor wayfaring stranger

[noorshirazie]

do not resent your soul as it guides you to an unseen side of yourself. discovering something new does not mean you have to say goodbye to everything you have known till now.

Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)

[spiritualinspiration2]

[hplyrikz]

Clear your mind here

[noorshirazie]

while others feared uncertainty, she confidently ended each chapter with a question mark. doing so has never hindered her ability to begin a new page.

Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)

[guddram-deactivated20180109]

god is real but you can only see him behind the 7/11 at 3:34 am after you down 6 and a half 5 hour energys

[queerpong-blog]

i wonder what war soulja boy fought in

[wnq-writers]

My wild heart seeks adventure. I cannot stand to stay put while the world remains a mystery. I want to fly with the leaves and leave a trail of memories tangled in the weeds.

cosmic-blissss (via wnq-writers)

[pez-uzi-deactivated20160424]

Places where reality is a bit altered:

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

[coolpepcat-deactivated20190924]

what the fuck

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

[sp1ne-sh0t]

I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

[kourus-deactivated20201103]

[theweirdwideweb]

[legoswrld]

aesthetic: blasting weightless by all time low through my headphones as i walk through a crowd with my sunglasses, head held high. maybe its not my weekend. even though it is a weekday. and it probably will not be my year but i love emo music.

[heteroerotic]

look at her go, boys…….

[tipzyhippie-blog]

someone: we both said some things we didn't mean

me, thinking about how i was right and absolutely meant everything i said: ......... sure did, pal

[finefrog654654675-deactivated20]

[emigration]

when will your fave

[gemini]

Six inch heels, she walked in the club like nobody’s business. goddamn, she murdered everybody and I was her witness

[kumagawa]

The filters handed out by planned parenthood and the government aren’t working for Flint’s water.

[jehovahhthickness]

Wow

[fishyfishgul]

Oh shit…

[quietdiversions]

The water crisis in Flint is getting worse and the media has pretty much stopped covering it. Not only that, it goes beyond Flint and into other areas of Michigan (like Detroit) (and even other states) as well. I found an article back when coverage of the water crisis was heavier that I wish I had bookmarked, because I can’t find it again. It showed a map of other areas in Michigan of varying degrees of also suffering from lead pipes.

A couple of years before the news broke of the Flint water crisis, my husband and I went to Michigan for a friend’s wedding. We stayed with my brother in law and his family in Milan. Our nephew had a rare form of melanoma not caused by sun exposure removed from his finger when he was 3. And my brother in law and sister in law proceeded to tell us of several other people in their neighborhood who had various forms of cancer and other illnesses. It got weirder when after showering at my brother in law’s house, my husband and I both had rashes are showering. The water had a strong smell and after shaving my legs they felt like they were on fire. On the way to my friend’s wedding, my husband asked me if I thought there was something strange about the water in their town and if all the illnesses among their neighbors and them were connected. I agreed the quality of the water was not good and it was really strange how we both felt after showering there. But my brother in law kinda waved our concerns away when we tried to bring it up.

Then about two years later the news broke about the Flint water crisis and that conversation came back to me. I really wish I could find that article again. I don’t feel the water in Michigan is safe period. The governor of Michigan needs to be held accountable for what he’s done. He had full knowledge of this. Also, the state of schools in areas like Detroit? Deplorable. Michigan’s government is terrible. Sad thing is, none of them will ever be had accountable for what they’ve done.

[fed-detector-deactivated2018030]

Environmentalism is not for rich white yuppies. Environmentalism is a matter of life and death.

[memewhore]

[atari-gang-deactivated20131215]