A BEAUTIFUL MESS

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Fall is here 🍂

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Bird expressions

As the crow flies - à vol d'oiseau (within a bird's flight)

At the crack of dawn - à l'heure du coq (at rooster hour)

Bed - plumard, m (feather bag, slang)

Being bird-brained - avoir une cervelle de moineau (having a sparrow's brain)

Being bitterly cold - faire un froid de canard (doing a duck's cold)

Being in a bad state - avoir du plomb dans l'aile (having lead in the wing)

Being like a pig in clover - être comme un coq en pâte (being happy like a rooster carried in a basket)

Being on one's last legs - battre de l'aile (flapping one's wing)

Being taken for a fool - être pris-e pour un-e pigeon-ne

Being the butt of the joke - être le dindon de la farce (being the prank's turkey cock)

Big, proud man - coq, m (rooster)

Birdie song - danse des canards, f

Bird of ill omen - oiseau de mauvais augure/de malheur, m

Burying your head in the sand - faire l'autruche (doing the ostrich)

Changing subjects abruptly - passer du coq à l'âne (going from the rooster to the donkey)

Chatterbox - pie, f (magpie)

Cleft lip - bec de lièvre, m (hare beak)

Cockfight - combat de coqs, m

Cop - poulet, m (chicken)

Crow's feet - pattes d'oie, f (goose paws)

Curved paring knife - bec d'oiseau, m (bird beak)

Daydreaming - bayer aux corneilles (gawk at little crows, neg)

Dip pen - porte-plume, m (feather holder)

Dipstick - triple buse, f (three time buzzard)

Dispenser nozzle - bec verseur, m (pouring beak)

Duck face - bouche en cul de poule, f (hen-butt mouth)

Ducky - ma poule (my hen, slang/old)

Eating like a bird - avoir un appétit d'oiseau

Eggnog - lait de poule, m (hen milk)

Featherweight - poids plume, m

Feeling light - avoir des ailes (having wings)

Finding a rare bird - trouver l'oiseau rare

Fired up - remonté-e comme un coucou (winded up like a cuckoo clock)

Flying too close to the sun/getting burnt - se brûler les ailes (burning one's wings)

Foie gras, m (fat liver)

Fountain pen - stylo-plume, m (feather pen)

Genius - aigle, m (eagle, slang)

Getting fooled - se faire pigeonner (getting pigeoned)

Goosebumps - chair de poule, f (chicken flesh)

Goose that lays golden eggs - la poule aux oeufs d'or, f (the golden egg's hen)

Greenhorn - blanc bec, m (white beak)

Green-yellow - caca d'oie, m (goose poo green)

Grouch - vieux hibou, m (old owl)

Happy as a lark - gai comme un pinson (gay as a chaffinch)

Having a go at/laying into - voler dans les plumes de (flying in someone's feathers)

Having a quarrel - se prendre le bec (beak fighting)

Having a sweet tooth - être un bec sucré (being a sweet beak)

Having bad breath - puer du bec (having a stinky beak, slang)

High and dry - le bec dans l'eau (the beak in the water)

High class hooker - poule de luxe, f

Houndstooth - pied-de-poule (hen foot)

Hurriedly - à tire d'aile (with pulled wings)

Insult - nom d'oiseau, m (bird name)

It's nothing to write home about - ça ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard (it doesn't break three legs to a duck)

Joker, random guy - oiseau, m (bird)

Lame duck - canard boiteux, m (limping duck)

Light as a feather - léger-e comme une plume

Lovebirds - tourtereaux, m (baby turtledoves)

Mixing bowl - cul de poule, m (hen butt)

Newspapers - canard, m (duck, slang)

Night owl - oiseau de nuit, m

Not coming out unscathed - y laisser des plumes (leaving feathers behind)

Old cow - vieille chouette, f (old owl)

One swallow doesn't make a summer - l'hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps (one swallow doesn't make a spring)

Ostrich-like approche - politique de l'autruche, f

Overprotective mother - mère-poule, f (mother hen)

Parroting - faire le perroquet

Partner - poule, f (hen - slang, retro)

Poison-pen letter writer - corbeau, m (crow)

Pothole - nid de poule, m (hen nest)

Proud as a peacock - fier-e comme un coq/paon

Putting pen to paper - prendre sa plume (taking one's quill)

Quarrel - prise de bec, f (beak fight)

Quill - plume, f (feather)

Recorder - flûte à bec, f (beaked flute)

Ripping off - plumer (plucking one's feathers)

Scatterbrain - tête de linotte, f (linnet head)

Screaming bloody murder - pousser des cris d'orfraie (screaming like a white-tailed eagle)

Shark/vulture - vautour, m

Showing off - faire le paon (doing the peacock)

Shutting up sbd - clouer le bec à (nailing someone's beak shut)

Simp - canard, m (duck)

Slow and steady wins the race - petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid (little by little, the bird makes its nest)

Snakes and ladders - jeu de l'oie, m (goose game)

Standing on one's own two feet - voler de ses propres ailes (flying with one's own wings)

Strange person - drôle d'oiseau, m (funny bird)

Sticks and stones may break my bones (but words will never hurt me) - la bave du crapeau n'atteint pas la blanche colombe (the toad's slobber doesn't reach the white dove)

Sucker, fool - pigeon-ne (pigeon)

Swansong - chant du cygne, m

Sympathetic, nice - chouette (owl)

Tailcoat - queue-de-pie, f (magpie tail)

Taking under one's wing - prendre (smb) sous son aile

Thieving magpie - pie voleuse, f (bling-focused thief)

Tooth and nail - bec et ongles (beak and nail)

Tweet tweet - cui-cui, m

Ugly little duckling - vilain petit canard, m

Waiting impatiently - faire le pied de grue (standing on one foot like a crane)

Walking splay-footed - marcher en canard

Watch the birdie (before taking a photo) - le petit oiseau va sortir (the little bird is about to come out)

When pigs fly - quand les poules auront des dents (when hens will have teeth)

Wimp - poule mouillée, f (wet hen)

Woodcock - bécasse, f (silly goose, for women)

Written by - sous la plume de (under X's quill)

"Yeah, right!" - et mon cul, c'est du poulet? (is my ass chicken?)

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[barbienefertiti]

You are beautiful. You are confident. You are that girl. Believe in yourself 💙

[hungwy]

i come back from a book and its like how the hell are you people just going on like this. didnt you read the book with me. how is the real world so disconnected from the whole book world i just experienced

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[hcolin-blog-blog]

Living in God's Economy

I have had a crazy few days this past week, all revolving around money; the lack of it or the ability to give it away.

A few months back, I had been praying for God to put me in a place where I could learn to trust in him fully and not “lean on my own understanding” – Basically, be in a position where I realize my only way out is through a miracle. This is a very scary thing to ask. Oh, and it happened. It happened.

I don’t have many financial responsibilities right now, but not having a solid job makes any responsibility difficult.

The bottom line of it is, I have bills to pay, and not a lot of money.

But my point here isn’t to tell you of my shortcomings.

My point is how I’ve radically changed my thinking.

Old thinking: Need money = hold on to what I have.

New thinking: Need money = give away what I have.

Here’s what happened:

I’ve always been challenged by the thought of receiving God’s blessings. One of my favorite quotes is by a pastor out here in Nashville, and he says, “You can’t out-give God. Just TRY to. Trust me.”

This can’t be any more true. My solid job went out the door with transferring schools. Though I’ve picked up a coffee shop job, I only get about two shifts a week. Not enough to pay rent or gas or groceries or anything really.

So, one day I decided I would just sell some things to make rent.

God said no. After I received a response to a craigslist ad I had posted selling a guitar pedal, I felt the Lord asking me to give the pedal to the person. This guy ends up being a believer and having some incredible mutual friends in Nashville and New Orleans.

The next day at work, I find a $5 bill in my apron. I think God was just sitting up there laughing and going, “Hey look what I can do. If you’ll just trust me, I can do more.”

That day, I decided for sure I would send him the pedal.

I also have come to the conclusion that I will start tithing on my tips, and the gross amount of my paycheck.

Sunday comes around, and my dad surprises me and takes me to Kroger and buys me over $100 in groceries. I was floored.

That night, I went out with some friends to a local donut shop. I simply asked for the price on this big loaf of sweet bread stuff.. And the guy just gives it to me for free. Hello breakfast for a week.

I’ve gotten multiple free meals this week at school, AND it looks like a job is lining up for me at a local starbucks. Praying for that.

Two days ago, I felt God asking me to give away a little more to some friends raising money for mission trips. I started to say no, while changing the amount of what I was “comfortable” giving.. and finally gave in. It was hard.. But part of me was so excited to give back into the Kingdom.

And just to add icing to the cake, I get to work last night and my paycheck is ready for me. Not only was the amount 3 times what I was expecting, but I also received a raise.

Boom.

Well, it looks like I’ll make rent this month.

Finances can really suck.. I mean really suck. I don’t like paying rent. I don’t like not having a lot of money. 

But living in God’s economy makes everything so much easier. The thing is, we are blessed to be a blessing. We’re given more so that we can give back more into the Kingdom.

So my challenge to you, if you are struggling. Ask God to reveal the beauty of walking in his economy, and ask him to challenge you to give. 

It sucks at first

But it is so worth it, and he will honor and bless you for it. I’m sure of it

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218 by la-chauve-souris on Flickr. Please check out my Vintage Cats blog <3

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[abirdepisode]

she was a physically and emotionally abused orphan who at 12 years old knew she had no family or friends, and knew no one wanted her. and she still chose to see the beauty and magic in the world. that’s not saccharine, it’s courage and strength.

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