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Oh damn

—thanksgiving

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"You were the storm that changed the skyline."

Memories, Lang Leav

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“We all pretend that we live in castles made of stone, but in reality they are made of sand, one bluster of wind away from crumbling into the seas of long forgotten past.”

- A Veil of Vines, Tillie Cole

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Poems & Words

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Why yes, my show dog does run... and can keep up with the racebreds. (At least for a few hundred yards!)

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From 3 weeks to 1 year - Happy Birthday, Obie! photos by myself and @silkenagentsofcsbeck

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H is for hawk and The Soul of an Octopus are absolutely amazing books!!!

Some animal books I’ll hopefully get around to reading soon. 

“Seabiscuit” by Laura Hillenbrand

“H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald

“The Soul of an Octopus” by Sy Montgomery

“The Eighty-Dollar Champion” by Elizabeth Letts

“The Book of Eels” by Patrik Svensson

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Compliment people. If you think a good thing about someone, there’s no harm in saying it aloud.

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Me: “I want to read a book.”

My Brain: Then read one...?

Me:

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Of Beast and Beauty by Chandra Hahn

A review of the book "Of Beast and Beauty" by Chandra Hahn. A spellbinding read with Rosalie as he mothers tool, designed to bring revenge to the kingdom of Baist.

Of Beast and Beauty (Daughters of Eville #1) by Chandra Kahn

Length: 310 pages

Recommended reader age:

Publisher: Neverwood Press 2019

Genre: YA

About the author:

Chandra Hahn is a bestsellling Young Adult author and has had books on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists.

Originally from Seattle, she currently lives in Wisconsin, and uses her experience as a librarian, bookseller…

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#book recommendations #book reviews #fairy tales #fantasy

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suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

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Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

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Happy National Writing Day! ❤

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thunder woofs

inspired by this neat storm cloud outside my house. 👁👄👁

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if you could smell like anything by default at all times what would you smell like tell me in the tags I wanna smell like almond butter, honey, and damp moss

#Fresh cut grass #Nala's paws #Fresh waffles #Newly turned soil #Clean straw

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this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

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Books by POC authors that you need to read

In light of the recent events in America and the UK and the rise of awareness for Black Lives Matter, I have compiled a list of books from both POC authors and discussions of racism both past and present. If there are any you recommend please let me know!

The recent events in America have made me aware of just how little I know about the struggle, discrimination and fear faced by Black people in every single day. Growing up, going to school and living in a white, middle class area means I am essentially clueless and to be honest I am angry at myself for living like this for so long.

I have compiled a list of recommended reads about race, Black…

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