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Farmer with lamb, Italy, Photo by Bill Perlmutter, 1955

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Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia

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Vicinity of Rawa Mazowiecka, central Poland.

Photography by Stanisław Gadomski, 1970s, from the digitalized collection of Muzeum Miejskie w Tychach.

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when i was a little girl i always thought i would grow up to do something great, like be the president, write a novel, do something heroic

then after a while, i thought i was born for nothing. i drifted aimlessly for a time.

but as it turns out i was meant to garden quietly, to bring up living things. and that’s nicer than I could have planned for myself

good to discover that there’s still room for gardeners in the world.

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Covid is not over and black lives still matter. Stop trying to “go back to normal” when shit is still happening.

Stop going on trips and going to restaurants without masks.

Keep educating yourself and protesting and calling and donating and signing petitions.

Wear a mask. End white supremacy. Defund police.

I know it’s tiring but it’s not over for either thing even though people are pretending it is. I know the overlap is exhausting. But be safe, social distance, and keep fighting the good fight.

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“No culture can survive that incorporates an anti-heroic myth about itself”

- Jonathan Bowden

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“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

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two 1961 Bulgarian stamps from a series on mushrooms

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“Creating a beautiful home, a strong marriage, and raising decent human beings is an art form, not something you do in your spare time.”

-Alice Teller (via littlest_folks)

So, don’t let Anyone tell you different!

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Luis Ricardo Falero - A Beauty, 1885

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Warsaw, Poland. Then & Now

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In Poland, July 11 is a National Day of Remembrance for victims of genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic, dedicated to the memory of the tens of thousands murdered by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during World War II.

From 1943 to 1944, the UPA murdered 100,000 Polish civilians in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. July 11 is the anniversary of the so-called “Bloody Sunday”, the beginning of the bloodiest wave of massacres in 1943, in which 99 Polish towns and villages were attacked. 10-11 thousand Poles were murdered over the course of a few days.

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“I am the son of a nation which has lived the greatest experiences of history, which its neighbors have condemned to death several times, but which has survived and remained itself. It has kept its identity, not by relying on the resources of physical power, but solely by relying on its culture.”

— St. John Paul II, UNESCO, Paris June 2, 1980.

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“Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error.” —  Tasha Tudor

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“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.” — James C. Snyder

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“Landscape from the Vincity of Krakow” (1886)

by Roman Kochanowski (Polish;1857-1945)

oil on canvas

National Museum, Cracow

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