In quest of sunshine

Counselor

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:49:50 -0400

I started working as a sort of counselor with a little boy today.

I worked toward this for a few months.

I thought long and hard about the commitment, always with the thought that I HAD to commit if I was going to do this, because I didn’t want to disappoint a child if I couldn’t follow through.

I thought of protecting whatever kid I ended up working with.

I forgot to protect myself. my tendency to get emotionally attached to people. Am I going to hurt when I can’t see this boy any more during the summer? Or what if I end up talking with him next year too… then he goes to middle school.. and I cannot have any contact with him outside of school… Am I going to feel like he’s my own child? Will I miss him? Will I be heartbroken?

Yeah, Probably.

I am an idiot.

tinydragongina: bwahahaha

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:45:52 -0400

tinydragongina:

bwahahaha

candyforgiraffes: prozd: rearmedic: feriowind: Two...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:06:38 -0400

candyforgiraffes:

prozd:

rearmedic:

feriowind:

Two exclusive games from the new Whose Line is it Anyway airing this summer on The CW

omfg yes ryan you have the best ideas and WAYNE BRADY!!! pulled off that j-pop pretty amazingly hahahahhahahahhaaa (he’ll never let ryan get the best of him…..) and colinnnnn!!! i wonder if they’ll keep making more bald jokes…..

It just hit me how much I’ve needed this show in my life. I’m so glad they’re bringing it back…it’s going to be the best birthday present ever.

I’m really happy these guys are back.

Aisha Tyler as the host?!!! omg <3

Best news!!!!!

thebigblackwolfe: lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:01:11 -0400

thebigblackwolfe:

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

!!!

MY WEAKNESS

GRANDMOTHERS WITH FOOD

omg omg omg I love this! It made me teary-eyed. My abuelita should be in this set. And I hope someday to be one of those grandmas. Grandmas are the shit. <3

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Tue, 14 May 2013 06:27:00 -0400

looks like home

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:50:43 -0400

looks like home

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Mon, 13 May 2013 23:49:51 -0400

moresongsaboutbuildings: yaoxiaodraws: Yesterday: 19 were shot...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:53:01 -0400

moresongsaboutbuildings:

yaoxiaodraws:

Yesterday: 19 were shot & wounded at Mother’s Day Parade in New Orleans. Among the victims were 10-year-olds.

I never quite involve my work with politics just because I did’t feel the kind of entitlement to police upon other countries’ policies — most of the time I listen and share. BUT it drives me NUTS to hear little kids get gunned down at school and at Mother’s Day Parades. Gun control is something I don’t have mixed feelngs about, even though I am no citizen of this country.

I can’t vote (or even be sure that I have rights to stay); but I can draw pictures. So I sat down tonight and drew this. Tell me I’m not crazy.

I love Ms Yao.

MY son hates meand I hate him despite how much i love himHe said he’s nice to people who are...

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:08:39 -0400

MY son hates me
and I hate him despite how much i love him

He said he’s nice to people who are nice to him. He said it in a mean way.
He said his dad is nice, never hits him and lets him play video games. Oh and sleeps with him.
His dad has done great damage to my son.

But the fact is, my son has hated me since he was 2. He said he was going to kill me. He would yell and me and slam his fists down at me at restaurants. He threw fits every weekend he was with me. He won’t hear it. Says it’s because of Reiken. But he also blames me. That;s Because he can’t take responsibility for his own actions. He won’t. He refuses. He dragged my jacket all over the dirt and then almost hit me with his fishing pole.
No amount of love hugs, kisses that i give him, when i wake him up when i tuck him in, when i prepare his food, when i buy him things he likes, when i drag myself to his school w/a a 104 fever to turn in his field trip permission slip, when I drive all over town to his therapist and various doctors to get his medicines.
None of that matters to him.

He can only see what he DOESN’T get from me. Because al he cares about is what he wants. cares about no one else. I told him that, as much as I love him, I don’t need to put up with people who bring me down. Who treat me like shit. Who don’t appreciate me. I respect myself too much to put up with that- yes, even from my own son. I don’t deserve that.
He can get out of my life, as much as it hurts.

(And then I really have no one. I can die now).

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Sat, 04 May 2013 08:06:31 -0400

zombie-barbie420: Too fuucking trooo #thisisme #truth #mylife...

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:24:03 -0400

zombie-barbie420:

Too fuucking trooo #thisisme #truth #mylife #slavegirl

LMAO

holyfer: China Moon / Luna de Porcelana

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:19:14 -0400

holyfer:

China Moon / Luna de Porcelana

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:32:27 -0400

Are you the artist or the mechanic? :D

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:47:42 -0400

lol take a wild guess

The Cave Man(ifesto) | Three New Leaves

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:06:09 -0400

The Cave Man(ifesto) | Three New Leaves:

I don’t think we are necessarily worse off than our ancestors. Back in the day, any common infection would kill a baby, people croaked at age 50, and horrible crimes have been committed since times unknown. There has always been war and famine- we just didn’t have Twitter or Facebook to let the whole world know.

What I DO know, is that for all the advances, we are certainly no better off than our ancestors, either. All the technology in the world cannot find a missing common sense, fix an inability to manage time, or make anyone give a shit (well, maybe that last one potentially could be remedied with many healthy doses of social awareness… but the person has to have a working conscience first).

Nowadays there is more people to litter the earth, more radiation, more chemicals stuffed in food, more spoiled people, more spoiled people, and did I mention more spoiled people?

That is probably the only thing I could manage bringing from so-called simpler times: wholesome food and pared down fitness, honest morals, and hard work. But you don’t need to look back to an imagined place in time. More than anything humans need to stop, look around, and realize that it’s NOT ABOUT THEM.

At the expense of suffering from all sorts of backlash.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:49:29 -0400

At the expense of suffering from all sorts of backlash.

Going full circle and a win

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:48:30 -0400

Flashback to five years ago when I was having to leave the house with kid in tow because the other half of the equation couldn’t handle the noise (or, the distraction). Come rain or shine or snow or flu.

And, you win. Wretched Watchtower, you win! You have taken my family away from me and forced me to come back to your evil claws. If I don’t, I will miss out on family. Nieces. Nephews. 40-year wedding anniversaries. Why? Because I am a wicked evil wrong doer? No. Simply because I Don’t believe your lies. But they do. I give up. No one will ever replace one’s family. Even if they suck. I hate you, Jehovah, and I absolutely abhor your organization. But… It is, what it is. Give in and conform, or be unhappy and alone. Fine. I looooove being brainwashed!!!!

(Jehovah’s witnesses are some of the delusionally self-righteous, close-minded and bigoted group of people In religion today). Did I mention that I hate Jehovah? And dear self-righteous Witness: don’t tell me to “not hate him because of what imperfect men do”… If those imperfect men are claiming to be Jehovah’s mouthpiece; then he is supposedly
Speaking through them… So if I hate the WT, I must have Jejovah too. That jealous, evil, cruel god.

Oh the mistakes we make in life due to poor decisions…

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:13:58 -0400

Oh the mistakes we make in life due to poor decisions…

Sadness

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:23:00 -0400

Over so much suffering all around… i know it’s always there and it has always been there but it still hurts my oversensitive soul.

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:14:21 -0400