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Fri, 17 May 2013 20:12:48 -0400

"Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you."

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:10:48 -0400

“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

- Maya Angelou (via creatingaquietmind)

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:09:04 -0400

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

- Carl Jung (via oust)

lovelyydarkanddeep: Unknown location, 1937.

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:00:56 -0400

lovelyydarkanddeep:

Unknown location, 1937.

carladoll6: thegodmolecule: here is a tribe in Africa where...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:05:50 -0400

carladoll6:

thegodmolecule:

here is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it.

And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.

In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.

The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

This is so sweet.

nest-guild: Brother Vellies: We love the shoes, the photos, and...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:02:49 -0400

nest-guild:

Brother Vellies: We love the shoes, the photos, and the story.

Hand made with Kulu leather by a small group of artisans in Namibia.

tinyunicorn: from the Hiut Denim newsletter (via omfgco)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:13:06 -0400

tinyunicorn:

from the Hiut Denim newsletter

(via omfgco)

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nevver: 365 Days of Hand Lettering

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:20:51 -0500

nevver:

365 Days of Hand Lettering

choose-life: Yogi necklace from Etsy arrived in the most...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:36:06 -0500

choose-life:

Yogi necklace from Etsy arrived in the most beautiful packaging with a handwritten note and ‘Be Infinite’ magnet. I love micro commerce

(via Block Shop)

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(via Block Shop)

natocartul: Supermassive Black Hole by ELIA FERNANDEZ

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:55:43 -0500

natocartul:

Supermassive Black Hole by ELIA FERNANDEZ

"Each era finds something new to return to; things that seemed out of date have a way of coming back..."

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:48:00 -0500

“Each era finds something new to return to; things that seemed out of date have a way of coming back in new forms, and revealing aspects of themselves we might not have noticed before.”

- Beck (via explore-blog)

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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:13:34 -0500

"In my 20s—I was 19 when I first started to tour—was when feminism came on my radar again. I think I..."

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:07:19 -0500

“In my 20s—I was 19 when I first started to tour—was when feminism came on my radar again. I think I really saw feminism as something that was important to everyone. My feminism definitely changed from when I first started and I was just like, “I cannot fucking stand men!” When you first step into the Feminist 101 personality, you’re like, “Get the fuck out of my face, men!” I was just sick of it. Every movie I saw, everywhere I looked, I saw sexism. I had never been looking before. And once I had that lens on, I just got more and more rageful. But then I started getting more nuanced, pretty much because the writer Kathy Acker called me an idiot to my face. [Laughs.] She said that sexism damages men as much as it damages women because it doesn’t allow them to be their full selves. It also keeps them away from all the cool girls if they’re being jerks.”

- Kathleen Hanna dropping some grrrl knowledge in this A.V. Club interview (via lindsayzoladz)

"Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with..."

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:01:32 -0500

““Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.””

- Henry Miller’s Reflections on Writing | Brain Pickings