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#my photography

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It's okay if you have trouble understanding people. Reading others is not as important as being compassionate and open to understanding them.

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#young royals

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It should be a bigger scandal that J.K. Rowling is threatening to sue small accounts for accurately calling her a Holocaust denier. So glad the Streisand effect exists. Now we can all rebuke her reprehensible views more than ever.

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

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my 8 year old has some emotional regulation difficulties, and I've done my best to help him with those.

unrelated, I gave him a shovel a couple of days ago and told him to go have fun in the field because I was tired.

He suddenly seemed happier, having less trouble breathing through disappointment and just being generally all around more cheerful and able to focus in school better. Sure, my partner had to pull him out of a six foot by three foot hole today, but he was stoked about it!

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things that I think are magical

morning dewdrops and mist

the sound a wind chime makes on a cool evening

very old trees, and ancient woodlands

sunrises over mountains

the way hair looks underwater

pan flute music

the ocean and the sea

moonlight on falling snow

the bluish light of dusk

the call of loons

silence

flowers that catch raindrops

insect wings

ancient castles and cathedrals

the sound of a coin dropping into a wishing well

luna moths

volcanic eruptions

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I think one of my very favorite things about linguistics is that the subject matter is so available. We're almost all native speakers of a language, and language is all around us every day. Making observations about language is cheap and easy. And linguistics is a young field, so most questions are open and there's lots of low-hanging fruit. Of course you have to put in the work if you want to answer a linguistic question to a high epistemic standard, but when it comes to just playing around you really can do linguistics—meaningful, new linguistics—wherever and whenever. You can just zero in on some thing you notice about how people talk, and bam, that's a research question. It's like a constant smorgasbord of intellectual stimulation. I really cannot recommend getting into linguistics enough.

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Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

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oh to one day live in a world that doesn't hinge on the whims of the united states of fucking america.

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hand in unlovable hand

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remember to be alive. spend less time scrolling and getting trapped in old thoughts...you won’t find what you need there. it’s time to be making new things, thinking new thoughts, loving and appreciating as much as you can, and experiencing the life in front of you.

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Thanks for hanging out with me! Was I cool? did you like me? What do you think of me in detail? Do you hate me?

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note: am v aware i have horrible taste lol

#bean and watermelon

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Moments"

[Text ID: “Me, inside myself, / always waiting for something / that my mind can’t define.”]