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SCREAMING

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relationship status: (drives through the night while 80s synthpop plays in the background)

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guy: nice naruto shirt 

me: thanks it’s your girlfriends

guy: i don’t have a girlfriend

me: i’m your girlfriend now

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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BSDGe9UBzBU/

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ZodiacChic Post:Sagittarius

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HOLLERIN

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Why we should have little altars everywhere

“A simple arrangement of meaningful things can help us find inspiration in our daily lives.” 

“I used to hike in the woods with a good friend who loved to create little altars. We’d stop for a rest break and she would stack up several stones into a small castle, then add a tiny feather that she’d found. Or we’d sit on the beach by the lake and write words on rocks: love, joy, passion, determination. Then we’d place them all together like a magnet fridge display and leave them there, hoping the next beachgoer would find inspiration.”

”That is, after all, the point and joy of an altar: inspiration. We can so easily get lost in the mundaneness of daily events. The days stream by in a whirlwind of work, eat, clean, prep, sleep, repeat. We look forward to our days off, when we can follow a more natural rhythm and follow our own desires instead of the dictates of life. We want to be pulled out of this routine flow into something more exciting, more rewarding, more exalted.

But you don’t have to wait until your two-week vacation or a hiking trip in Nepal to feel a deeper connection to something divine within you.

You can make an altar to almost anything. It is a powerful and simple act to create a sacred space in your own home, no matter how small.”

“It can be on a tabletop or a bookshelf; you can turn a corner of a room, or the corner of a counter, into your altar. It doesn’t matter how big or small it is, what matters is your intention. And like meditation, the more time you spend with your altar,  creating and tending to it, the more empowered it becomes.”

“In your home, an altar is a beautiful place you create that can help you remember what is important in your life.”

“If you spend a few minutes every day at this sacred place that you built yourself, you have a few minutes a day of exalted being. But those minutes don’t just end when you snuff out the candle and go to work. Those minutes come with you. They hover over you, like a waft of perfume. And when you lift your tired head up from your desk at the end of the workday, the scent of your prayers can wash over you, reminding you again that you are here on this planet as an expression of divinity. And when you get home that night and glance at your altar on your way to bed, you’ll remember again the joy of your life, the possibilities life holds and the perfection that your life already is.”

Source: Mother Nature Network

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been a little while since i tended to my altar - in grief and exhaustion i’d let it get dusty. then a surprise gift of money from my partner’s dad made me remember that i still need to be present and at least give thanks for what i receive (the rose, for hermes, who always provides me with enough to keep going). just taking a little time to clean and give it attention was helpful to my state of mind.

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siri read a message from my mom (2017)