You know my name, not my story.

"Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But..."

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““Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer—it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.””

- The Book Thief

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"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:59:52 -0500

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

- John W. Gardner

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Ten ways to love.

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:50:44 -0500

Ten ways to love. :

ka-te:

jlynaaliyah:

shesmisabel:

Listen without interrupting. (Proverbs 18)

Speak without accusing. (James 1:19)

Give without sparing. (Proverbs 21:26)

Pray without ceasing. (Colossians 1:9)

Answer without arguing. (Proverbs 17:1)

Share without pretending. (Ephesians 4:15)

Enjoy without complaint. (Philippians 2:14)

Trust without wavering. (Corinthians 13:7)

Forgive without punishing. (Colossians 3:13)

Promise without forgetting. (Proverbs 13:12)

(via acbajet)

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lazyyogi: The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:58:20 -0500

lazyyogi:

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, swelling in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:56:53 -0500

Forgiveness does not rebuild trust.

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fuckyeahphotographics: Watch as police pepper spray students...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:08:06 -0500

fuckyeahphotographics:

Watch as police pepper spray students at UC Davis, please spread to share awareness of police brutality on students when they are simply protesting peacefully.

Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper-sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.

To sign a petition asking Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign please do so here: http://www.change.org/petitions/police-pepper-spray-peaceful-uc-davis-students-ask-chancellor-katehi-to-resign

"Why do I think sexual freedom is important to feminism? Well, for the long answer, see this entire..."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:44:45 -0500

“Why do I think sexual freedom is important to feminism?

Well, for the long answer, see this entire blog. But for the short answer: because it’s impossible for women to be accepted as human beings if we aren’t accepted as sexual beings. If women’s dignity is contingent on our not being too sexy, we’re never going to have dignity. We have to accustom ourselves to the idea that someone can be highly sexual, publicly sexual, sexual in a way that we would totally never do ourselves because whoa… and still have dignity.”

- Holly at the Pervocracy in “Sex Pozzie”

Emphasis mine.

(via mylifeasafeminista)

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adireadire: exilemoon: xobreeox55: molliemackattack: i go to...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:26:24 -0500

adireadire:

exilemoon:

xobreeox55:

molliemackattack:

i go to the university of memphis, and walking home from my class this evening, i saw these signs. i’m sure there’s more all over campus but these are the ones i saw. it really hurt my heart reading them. because i know i’ve had major self esteem issues in my life, and i’m sure most of you have too. we’ve all been there and we all know how it feels. the one that really got my attention was the one about how girl’s self esteem peaks at age 9. and i thought ‘that can’t be accurate…’ but then i thought about it, and i’ve felt self conscience about my body/face as little as second grade. that’s about 8/9 years old. i just hate this. everyone deserves to feel beautiful. no matter what gender, weight, height, hair color, skin color, OR ANYTHING. we’re all people, we all have feelings, and we’re all beautiful.

Really puts things into perspective.

Holy shit, I reblogged this from someone in Canada.

I saw these too, but it was at 6pm so no photos.

I really want to go to the exhibit Tuesday about the changing ideas of perfection.

staff: Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:54:58 -0500

staff:

Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

— Representative Darrell Issa

We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives.

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