🌼~BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out.~🌼
This is very important reading. As I grow older, I find I have doubts about so many things, but of this, I’m surer than ever: nothing will fundamentally change or get better about our world as long as humans treat other species as if they’re disposable objects that exist for our pleasure, use, and profit. The step between a man who exploits an animal and the man who exploits another man is much, much shorter than we think.
(And also: unpopular opinion, but ‘exploit’ can mean a lot of things. Farm animals are exploited, but so are dogs bred into absurdity, guinea pigs living alone and cats forced to wear fancy costumes.)
Please think once, twice, three times before adopting - NEVER buying - a pet.
Walt Whitman, “Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd”, Leaves of Grass
[Text ID: “Now we have met, we have look‘d, we are safe,
Return in peace to the ocean my love,
I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much
separated,”
Li Songsong, known for using thick layers of paint to craft scenes that appear similar to fragmented memories, brings his historical look at China to Pace Gallery with the show “One of My Ancestors.” See more here.