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Sappho fr. 22 (Lobel-Page)

because I prayed this word: I want

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Such a beautiful day in Mantua today 🌿

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Sometime u just have to sit on ur porch

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How amazing would it be to live next to the ocean, wake up every morning and go for a walk on the beach… this is kinda my dream, first thing u hear when u wake up is the ocean and last thing u hear when u go to sleep is the ocean, thats peaceful

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as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

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The rest is silence.

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things people do in real world dialogue:

• laugh at their own jokes

• don’t finish/say complete sentences

• interrupt a line of thought with a sudden new one

• say ‘uh’ between words when unsure

• accidentally blend multiple words together, and may start the sentence over again

• repeat filler words such as ‘like’ ‘literally’ ‘really’ ‘anyways’ and ‘i think’

• begin and/or end sentences with phrases such as ‘eh’ and ‘you know’, and may make those phrases into question form to get another’s input

• repeat words/phrases when in an excited state

• words fizzle out upon realizing no one is listening

• repeat themselves when others don’t understand what they’re saying, as well as to get their point across

• reply nonverbally such as hand gestures, facial expressions, random noises, movement, and even silence

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29.01.17

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ― Susan Cain, Quiet

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She liked all that soothes, everything that is conducive to daydreaming; all those joys that appeal to young women and amuse youthful sovereigns alike: havens of familiarity where friendship flows freely, intimate conversations in which the mind lowers its guard, and Nature, that friend, and the woods, those confidantes, and the horizon, in which the eyes and the spirit can plunge, and flowers, with their eternal merriment.

–Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Histoire de Marie Antoinette [translation: Versailles: A Private Invitation, Guillaume Picon]

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What would get to her first — the lack of sleep or an overabundance of it? 

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“I can only connect deeply or not at all.”

— Anaïs Nin, Fire (via wethinkwedream)

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y’know, I know that tumblr gets a lot of shit for being obsessed with a Persephone, how they make her into something that she’s not supposed to be and misinterpret the actual myth etc. etc, but honestly? The fact that the people who are changing Persephone into who she has become to tumblr– the young woman who claims agency over herself and isn’t half so helpless as men would make her out to be, the woman who licks her fingers after every pomegranate seed, the woman who walks into hell with sunlight in her eyes, flowers in her hair, and hard ambition in her heart, –the people who do that are most often teenage girls themselves. It’s an act of reclaiming a piece of what’s practically pop culture and adapting it to the times, just like myths have always meant to be. It’s taking the story of a victimized girl and making it the story of a queen.

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hey shout out to PBS and public libraries

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“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

— Theodore Dreiser (via loveage-moondream)

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#current financial situation