Anonymous asked: You're adorable
Yes. 6 feet of adorable-ness.
Just re-read the card and limerick my APUSH teacher, Mr. Anderson, made for me as well as the recommendation letter he wrote for me in high school. Probably going to cry. Easily the nicest letter anyone has written about me. I’ve been so privileged to have such amazing if not life changing teachers throughout my academic career
"But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both."
— Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, “An Origin Story” (via anditslove)
(Source: larmoyante, via bree83)
I want to see the Avett Brothers with my girl Grace Potter (she actually dropped out of SLU for her music career) so badly. But basically if I make it out of the wilderness and home, showered, and to Rochester in time I can go, and then go to Nantucket the next day. A) I’m going to be broke B) Tired from working and driving all week and C) Hungover driving far SUCKS
Same Love (Feat. Mary Lambert) | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
“We press play
Don’t press pause
Progress, march on!
With a veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
‘Till the day
That my uncles can be united by law
Kids are walkin’ around the hallway
Plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful
Someone would rather die
Than be who they are
And a certificate on paper
Isn’t gonna solve it all
But it’s a damn good place to start
No law’s gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever god you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it’s all the same love
About time that we raised up”Just press play and listen.
I’ve been obsessed with this for the past week. Macklemore is one cool dude for doing this.
“Mom, set the alarm for 11 am…I got shit to do tomorrow.”
Anonymous asked: You seem like a really nice and smart girl, and I know you're in a relationship so I decided to ask you for advice. A lot of people are saying you get confidence from being with a lot of guys (I don't have much) but I've been with the same guy forever, what do you think I should do?
Gurl, first of all let me tell you, even if “a lot of people” are telling you something, that doesn’t make it anymore true at all for you. You’re an individual, not them, things will effect you differently. In terms of more confidence from being with more people? I think experience in life in general makes you more confident, not guys…..But anyways, honestly I’ve only kissed 4 people in my life, and had meaningful relationships with 3 out of the 4, so I by no means have been with a lot of people. However, I can tell you I’ve never been as confident as I am with George. I feel in long term relationships you learn that love has about 10% to do with what you look like (initial attraction) and then 90% to do with your personality, willingness to be a good partner, and whatever other positive attribute you may bring to the relationship. I think in that 90% of things is where the truly beautiful confidence lies. I can try to make myself burp and George thinks it’s cute. Just being yourself is all the confidence you need, not the looks that bring you the initial attraction. Be confident in that, looks matter little at the end of the day. If you don’t feel confident in your relationship with your partner maybe it’s (I’m assuming due to the hook up idea) because of your idea that confidence comes from your external rather than internal self. Help each other grow into more confident individuals, and try to discuss with each other just how that will happen individually for the two of you. That’s what love is for in my opinion and clearly Mumford and Sons’: “Love it will not betray, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free, be more like that man you were made to be.”
"In the real world, not all men want to be “breadwinners”, just like not all men want to be violent, or to have power over women. What men do want, however, is to feel needed, and wanted, and useful, and loved. They aren’t alone in this – it’s one of the most basic human instincts, and for too long we have been telling men and boys that the only way they can be useful is by bringing home money to a doting wife and kids, or possibly by dying in a war. It was an oppressive, constricting message 50 years ago, and it’s doubly oppressive now that society has moved on and even wars are being fought by robots who leave no widows behind."
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- Laurie Penny, ‘We need to talk about masculinity’ (via guardiancomment)
“we have been telling men and boys” that makes it sound as if women have been telling men to go fight wars (i.e. rape foreign women), when in fact it’s always been other men - we manage to feel “needed” and “wanted” and “useful” without killing and raping other people
(via poesizing)
(Source: Guardian, via matualication)
"I align myself with people who support my growth. If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along."
— Dr. Wayne Dyer (via fabulousbitch69)
(Source: thentherewas7, via keepyourheadupandyourheartopen)
It’s so fucking hard for me to talk to people sometimes
Doing some serious self-evaluating tonight. I can’t tell if it’s me being negative about myself or me realizing how much potential I have to do things and how little I have done with that. Either way, it’s extremely depressing yet extremely motivating.
Anxiety isn’t a fashion statement it’s a miserable disorder with actual real uncontrollable symptoms that eat you alive and distance you from the people you love so stop making it “trendy”
(via evanclay)
Doesn’t Remind Me - Audioslave
"Science is simply a long and careful look beneath and beyond the world’s skin. In the same field where I see only a muddle of anonymous green, Henry David Thoreau, scientist of Walden Pond, saw infinite variety: cotton grass, foxtail, life-everlasting, goldenrod, Saint Johnswort, mullein, meadowsweet. An astronomer sees a sky far richer than mine, filled with quasars and pulsars, galaxies and nebulas. In all that bickering at the bird feeder, an ornithologist sees pair bonds and pecking order. In that annoying rock dug out of the strawberry patch, a geologist sees grey granite left in the 10,000-year-old path of glaciers. This new depth of seeing has taken us from the beetles in our own back yards to the particles inside the atom and the gaseous glow at the end of the universe."
— Rebecca Rupp
