I Have No Idea What I'm Doing

[aidashakur]

[velvetvexations]

[silktheblogger-deactivated20230]

Very aware that I’m weird & a little strange

[i-am-a-fish]

I've decided we're all going to make it

[fiercestpurpose]

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

[noctiscorvus]

Googled it and you know what, it is beautiful:

[floralprintsharks]

[ID: a photograph of purple asters growing amidst bright yellow goldenrod flowers. End ID]

[sweetoothgirl]

Toasted Hot Cocoa Cupcakes with Marshmallow Filling

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

here’s to all the things you survived quietly and privately this year

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

here’s to all the things you survived loudly, to the dead horses you beat to death, to the shit that makes you scream

[mossymycelium]

heres to a year with new horses, new things to survive, and damn good weapon upgrades.

[monoamine-qveen]

It’s hard being so beautiful and annoying with cool interests

[sandandglass]

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Icon, role model, and an absolute legend that we all must stan

[glowcowboy]

without arts & crafts we are in hell

[mrsterlingeverything]

I miss my fucking something so bad

[louisegluckpdf]

need him in a way. not telling you which one

[sirpuntine]

Not only did mama raise a quitter, but she also raised a procrastinator, people-pleaser, doormat, coward, and liar, and you can’t put a price on that

[reemillustrated]

a reminder

[vexheart]

[disconsolate-enby]

“I want what she’s on.” The spectrum??

[iron-dogwood]

Progress on my stained glass Narsil.

[rosehaunt]

why do I keep hearing people say “if you are 25+ and not settling down and getting married wtf are you doing”. going on walks, watching a movie, reading a book, infinitely better things.