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I used to have that. I used to have that. I used to have that. I used to have that. Enjoy it.

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AND NOW I WILL TOO

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“The paternoster elevator at Prague City Hall. These door-less, continuously moving lifts are the 1860s invention of Peter Ellis, an architect from Liverpool, and were once popular all over Eastern Europe and Germany before production ended in the 1970s over safety concerns. ” Video courtesy Jada Yuan

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I read your post and I'd like to help you get started. Please talk to me about how vegetables aren't real, because that sounds like an interesting af conversation.

Well let me tell you.

Everybody and their cousin has experienced the argument “is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable” at some point in their lives. It’s a fun bit of trivia, and let’s know-it-all’s speak condescendingly, or at least they did like 10 years ago. “Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad”. Whatever.

Which brings up the point, that botany and culinary sciences are very different. Botany is the study of plants, culinary is cooking and how things taste. Botany is science, and it has rules (kind of), where cuisine is full of guidelines that are completely cultural.

Tomatoes are a fruit. A fruit is how many plants have babies, and are made in the ovary of a flower. I have a diagram.

Armed with this knowledge we can know that tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans, peas and peppers are all fruit.

“Now”, I ask you, “what are lettuce, and cabbage, and spinach, and kale”?

“Vegetables”, you say, assuredly.

“Yes, but, what are they?”

“…vegetables”, you say, slower, and louder this time, not quite sure what I’m wanting from you.

No. They are leaves.

What are carrots, beets and radishes? Roots. What about celery and rhubarb? Stems. Potatoes? Tubers (food storage for the plant, and where new plant babies will grow from). Garlic and onions? Bulbs (also food storage). Mushrooms? They’re not even a plant, they’re a fungus, in the kingdom of fungi, which is somewhere between the plant and animal kingdoms.

“Vegetables” is just a word for plants that we eat, that doesn’t have enough sugar to be a fruit, and not enough flavour to be a herb or spice.

Botanically speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. They’re just different parts of a plant that happen to be edible.

There are other plants, normally considered weeds, that can be “eaten like a vegetable”. Dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, purslane, can all be cooked and eaten, making them vegetables, at least to the people to treat them as such. It’s all very cultural, and biased, and based on nothing but what people think it is. Therefore, they are not a real thing, it’s just a concept.

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Early autumn checklist

Take a drive up the mountain (obviously)

Spend a night out around a fire

Spend one night camping before it’s too cold

Enjoy some time to yourself in the outdoors

Enjoy your favorite pie for the first time in months

Plan some cozy activities with friends

Plan a non horror cosy movie night

And a classic horror movie night

Grab a hot chocolate after a cool night outside, remember that warm feeling

Play night games

Plan a board game night, with warm drinks and laughter

Go on a walk as the air gets crisper

Go to the park, have a picnic as the leaves change color

Plan your spooky activities for halloween

Plan and design your Halloween costume

Set aside a day to spend up the mountain, taking pictures of yourself in the leaves

Hit up your local coffee shop for their seasonal beverages

Write a poem about how the weather makes you feel, even though that’s cheesy

Give pumpkin spice another try, remember how much you do or don’t like it

Turn on your TV, watch one of those movie marathons

Visit your family, remember family doesn’t always mean blood

Go to your local schools football game, even if it’s not your thing it’s fun to just try that one time.

Choose your chilly day outfits

Go sweater shopping for your new favorite sweater

Go thrift shopping for that perfect look

Spend at least one cold night star gazing wrapped up in blankets

Take a deep breathe, you can feel it in the in the breeze. Autumn is coming

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SOS NYC

If you live in NYC or know of anyone who lives there and can host me for some $$ or makeup services plssss let me know??

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How extremely valuable is it to be able to tell somebody that you love them when they are struggling. How infinitely valuable is it to you when you feel alone and someone walks beside you.

Patrick Dehler (via breanna-lynn)

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You don’t have to love your body

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Emma Fischer | @styledbyemmahos

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With every act of self care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side; each day I am more and more on my side.

Susan Weiss Berry (via makeandgather)

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7 Benefits of Change

1. It grows you as a person as you gain new insights and learn new lessons.

2. It keeps us adaptable and flexible which are beneficial traits in all areas of life.

3. It helps us to see life from a new perspective, and challenges old values and points of view.

4. It helps to makes you stronger as you have to leave behind what was previously familiar, and made you feel secure.

5. It opens up new doors of opportunity that you never would have walked through if you’d just stayed as you are.

6. It develop your resources and creativity as you have to learn new things, and to change your old routines.

7. It provides a new beginning where you turn a fresh clean page, and write on a fresh slate, and start to reinvent yourself.