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I’m trying to figure out how a person can become both your heaven and hell. Your darkest place and your safest place. The angel who brings you life, and the demon who takes it away.

B.L letters I never sent (via im-sad-lets-have-sex)

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I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I’m not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

Stephanie Perkins (via quotemadness)

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I think part of the reason people take photos is because they’re afraid that moment will never happen again.

(via difficult)

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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe (via quotemadness)

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The Druid’s Forest Giveaway!

It’s about that time again! As a follower appreciation for gaining 30,00 thousand followers (I have no idea how I managed that, but I am extraordinarily grateful), I’ll be doing another giveaway! Here’s what you will win!

1st Place:

Celtic-style journal with wooden pencil

Rose Garden loose leaf black tea from our local tea shoppe! (My personal favorite, it’s honestly so good)

A package of joop scented incense

A green aventurine ring from my shop

A pentacle charm, also from my shop

Rose petals, garden calendula, and garden lemon verbena

Tumbled flourite, howlite, sodalite, moonstone, moss agate, and a quartz point

Wire-wrapped green aventurine and moonstone pendants

Oaken Heart from my shop

A creativity charm bottle, not yet listen in my shop!

White, green, and pink chime candles

2nd & 3rd Place:

A free 3-card tarot reading, hand written by me and mailed out!

Rules:

This giveaway is for my followers to show my appreciation, so you must be one in order to win!

Do NOT tag this as giveaway! If you do, you won’t win.

Purchases from my shop are not required (although extremely appreciated), but please at least visit my shop!

Use coupon code GIVEAWAY316 for 20% off any purchase, until March 1st!

I’ll be shipping internationally because I care more about you all than my wallet

Like and reblog as many times as you wish, both count!

Winner is randomly chosen through a random number generator

Winner will be messaged and will have up to one week to respond before a new one is chosen

Giveaway ends on March 1st, 2016

This giveaway is NOT affiliated with tumblr

Have fun my lovelies! :)

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It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via wordsnquotes)

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“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.” —Jack Kerouac

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Anxiety distraction games

I know with all that’s been happening that some of you have been feeling anxious so here’s some links to some of my favourite calming distraction games:

Art game

Flow game

Galaxy game

Giraffe game

Balloon game

Planetarium Game

Imagination Game

Liquid particles Game

I hope this helps x

Links to more anxiety/panic help posts under read more:

Keep reading

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this is a PSA

depression does not vanish just because your life is technically ‘going well’

depression does not vanish just because good things are happening to/around you

depression does not vanish just because you’re surrounded by people who love you

depression is an unconditional illness that comes and goes as it pleases, regardless of what might be happening in your life

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http://iglovequotes.net/

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I really wanted to do a giveaway so I gathered up a few small things to give away to one lucky winner!! Please follow and read the rules carefully to enter!

~ Rules ~ 

-Must be following me. Giveaway is for my followers only.

-Check out my Etsy shop and favorite it if you have an account. (If you don’t have an account it’s ok, no worries!)

- Must be 18 or older to enter (sorry these are tumblr guidelines)

- One reblog per contestant. At the end of the giveaway a number will be assigned to your url and be drawn at random. 

- This giveaway is not affiliated with tumblr. 

- Giveaway will end on August 30th at 11:59 PST. 

- Winner will be notified via ask box and name will not be disclosed. 

- Do not tag as giveaway.

~ Prizes ~ 

~ 1 natural Amethyst crystal cluster

~ 1 Blue Full Moon Necklace

~ 2 natural rough Phantom Quartz.

Hope you all enjoy entering my giveaway!! If you have any questions feel free to message me! :) Good luck!

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Braids!!!!!

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Maybe we’ll meet again, when we’re slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.

(via bl-ossomed)

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Who were the 99% in Ancient Rome?

Most of the information about Rome and Roman society comes from the 1.5% who had wealth, power, and literacy. The rest, the vast majority of citizens, we know next to nothing about. But we have their skeletons.  Most were buried anonymously outside the city, without epitaphs and often without grave goods to tell us who they were or what they did. Their skeletons are as anonymous in death as in life. There are between 10,000 and 20,000 plebeian skeletons languishing in Italian warehouses, without funding  or interest in investigating them.

Now, Kristina Killgrove, an archaeologist from Vanderbilt University, wants to tell their story by sequencing their DNA, and she is raising donations to do it. Since 2007, Killgrove has been studying 200 skeletons recovered from lower-class graves excavated outside Rome’s city walls. She looks at the chemical isotopes from their water, food and environment into their bones and teeth. Using modern science, she can reconstruct to a degree what they ate, where they came from, and much more. For instance, strontium and oxygen isotope levels revealed that a third of them had immigrated to Rome after their childhood, and thereafter lived similar lives to Roman-born people. To learn more about her research, and maybe donate to her project, check out Kristina’s blog, or her website Roman DNA Project