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To take the lesson out of every experience…… to silently forgive people not necessarily for their sake but more so for yours…… to hold yourself accountable but simultaneously view past experiences through a lens of compassion…… to make peace w things you can’t change……. to let people be who they naturally are even if it means losing them… to be okay w people misunderstanding you…. to recognize that things not working out is the universe’s way of protecting you from things or people who were not meant for you…… to be kind and gracious but also to stand up for yourself where necessary…… that is the way to living a happy fulfilling life unencumbered by yesterday’s regrets

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Alex Alemany

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i love pacing so much. got too excited about stories i gotta go have a little brisk walk about it

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i love you well crafted narratives i love you clever callbacks i love you seemingly nonsensical plot lines that begin to make perfect sense when they converge i love you sneaky little easter eggs you only notice on your second watch i love you consistent but not overdone motifs i love you deeply satisfying series finales i love you gratifying and tangible character development

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Lauren Mercer-Smail (Canadian), Helena from the Alley, Toronto, 2019, Oil on canvas

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Dongqian Lake, China

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{Marya Hornbacher from Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia//stay away but come closer via Altusboy on Tumblr}

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mortifying ordeal, etc. 🕊

(claire schwartz / coco mellors)

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The only sorrow is that there is only one month of summer left and it has gone too quickly; I am hungry for it still and feeling cheated. There was never enough time and there was never enough summer.

Martha Gellhorn, from The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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Strawberry vendor in Gaza, Palestine, January, 2019 @Aya Isleem

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At times, the original flora [of Palestine] manages to return in surprising ways. Pine trees were planted not only over bulldozed houses, but also over fields and olive groves. In the new development town of Migdal Ha-Emek, for example, the JNF did its utmost to try and cover the ruins of the Palestinian village of Mujaydil, at the town’s eastern entrance, with rows of pine trees, not a proper forest in this case but just a small wood. Such ‘green lungs’ can be found in many of Israel’s development towns that cover destroyed Palestinian villages (Tirat Hacarmel over Tirat Haifa, Qiryat Shemona over Khalsa, Ashkelon over Majdal, etc.). But this particular species failed to adapt to the local soil and, despite repeated treatment, disease kept afflicting the trees. Later visits by relatives of some of Mujaydial’s original villagers revealed that some of the pine trees had literally split in two and how, in the middle of their broken trunks, olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.

—Ilan Pappé, from The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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Just another day in Australia

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Y'ever think about what absolute mad decadence we live in that "vanilla" means "plain"

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circle of sleep <3

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