June 2012
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Running into people from high school and being socially awkward with my dad.
“My brother died in the World Trade Center. I promised myself, if something like...”
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A man whom police are hailing as a hero in Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a Seattle’s cafe braved gunfire to hurl barstools at the suspect. Identified by police only as “Lawrence,” the man says he didn’t hesitate to put his life in danger, emboldened by the memory of his brother ….
Lawrence’s...
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Mental Health Recovery: Avoiding Triggers! Posted...
I hate to admit it, but when you live with a mental illness there are probably things you/we need to avoid–things that can upset the stability we have fought so hard to find. First, let’s break it down a little bit.
Using Addiction as an Example…
Let’s use the example of addiction. I know a thing or two about addiction. When you are in recovery from addiction you are told, wisely, to avoid...
STFU, White Liberals!: Ten Lies You are Told Every... →
racismschool:
If you don’t physically hold someone down, you can’t be an oppressor.
Racism is physically hating and acting on that hate based on a person’s race.
White Privilege means you are rich and/or have an easy life.
Pointing out racism is a racist act.
Not knowing better is a…
I got nothing.: glossylalia: Every time new... →
glossylalia:
Every time new commentary appears on my dash about that Anti Amendment One billboard in Charlotte I want to tell someone new to blow me.
It’s advertisements like that that helped me to find a church to go to in college, and actually LIKE going to church because I found a…
May 2012
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami - “Kafka on the Shore” (via annieloveslilies)
“…once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
– The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (via morvia)
“Males as a group have and do benefit the most from patriarchy, from the...”
– bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (via transformfeminism)
Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
I don’t want a boyfriend; I want someone to remove my glasses when I forget and fall asleep.
beautythroughhealth:
Numbers that don’t define you:
The amount of pounds you weigh
The circumference of your waist
The number of people you’ve had sex with
Your age
The number of scars on your body
How many calories you ate today
Your GPA
The amount of money in your wallet
Numbers that do define you:
I got nothing.: Bad Romance →
rosa—sparks:
I wrote a post yesterday reacting to something very specific on my dash that a few people were discussing.
Someone had posted a story that a woman was fuming and pouting over the fact that she didn’t like her proposal. A grown-ass woman who was MARRIED to the person who proposed to her was…
Someone make this into a graphic and put it on Pinterest.
INFJ Confession 1098) I feel like an emotional...
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I wish it were more socially acceptable to say that I’m confused and am having a hard time with so many things right now. I hate the notion that it’s not okay to have a perfectly executed life plan or that not being amazingly successful at 24 is going to mean I’m doomed for the rest of my life.
I’m ready for a new culture in this country.
I fucks with these crab cakes: Anonymous asked:... →
lyssamae:
happilyevernow:
No bother at all, anon!
Woody Allen was accused by Mia Farrow, whom he’d been married to, of sexually abusing/molesting their 7-year-old daughter back in 1992.
I wasn’t able to find anything about Kelsey Grammer, other than his abuse of drugs (cocaine)…
Gross people are gross.
FRUSTRATED ABOUT EVERYTHING
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The Opposite of Loneliness // Marina Keegan
We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. What I’m grateful and thankful to have found at Yale, and what I’m scared of losing when we wake up tomorrow and leave this place.
It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on...
When someone asks why I chose to go to grad school
whatshouldwecallme:
“I saw my life branding out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
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– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via mottle)