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Happy Tutu Tuesday! Photo credit: Jerome Tobias https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl4-1lA_od0LSIVAs1bAecGVHywR5FFcyZyNU0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p64m4w5gons8

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Wait what 10 years?!

Sozin’s Comet, the 4-part series finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender, aired 10 years ago today on July 19, 2008

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San Francisco, California

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I miss the air I miss my friends I miss my mother I miss it when Life was a party to be thrown But that was a million years ago

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Circa 2011

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Drag Show Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, San Francisco, 2014.

"In San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood sits Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, a small, windowless locale that’s the only remaining gay bar in an area once known for its nightlife LGBTQ attractions." (Sara Barnes, Beautiful Decay)

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Into the Wild

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Maui, Hawaii. 2014.

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Like This Rumi (Translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne)

If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulness of the nightsky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, Like this. If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God’s fragrance" means, lean your head toward him or her. Keep your face there close. Like this. When someone quotes the old poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe. Like this. If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don’t try to explain the miracle. Kiss me on the lips. Like this. Like this. When someone asks what it means to "die for love," point here. If someone asks how tall I am, frown and measure with your fingers the space between the creases on your forehead. This tall. The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns. When someone doesn’t believe that, walk back into my house. Like this. When lovers moan, they’re telling our story. Like this. I am a sky where spirits live. Stare into this deepening blue, while the breeze says a secret. Like this. When someone asks what there is to do, light the candle in his hand. Like this. How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob? Huuuuu. How did Jacob’s sight return? Huuuu. A little wind cleans the eyes. Like this. When Shams comes back from Tabriz, he’ll put just his head around the edge of the door to surprise us Like this.

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Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.  You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,  stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,  sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine  and tomorrow's dust flares into breath.

(The Coming of Light, Mark Strand)

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SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Tattoos by Austin Tott 

This awesome photo series titled ‘Tiny Tattoos’ by Austin Tott, a photographer based in Seattle, Washington, revolves around just that. More after the jump:

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"The universe is change; life is your perception of it." Marcus Aurelius