I really love talking to ppl in different languages bc unless you’re truly, masterfully fluent in both, there are so many little things that get “lost” contextually.

I worked with some French guys and every day at around noon we’d go to do some work in the shade to get a break from the sun and they’d say “let’s go into the shadows.”

I loved that.

To me it sounded so intense. Of course they just meant “shade,” but the connotations and implications of “The Shadows” is so literary and dramatic.

Felt like I was being told to walk the path of darkness when we needed to stop haying the field for 15 minutes.

selena forrest @ fendi ss17

Riley Montana X Wonderland Spring 2018 by Jakob Landvik

The Paantu (パーントゥ?) festival is an annual festival on the island of Miyako-jima in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.[1]

Every year during the ninth month of the Chinese calendar, male villagers will dress up as paantu, supernatural beingsmeant to spread good luck and scare away evil spirits. The common feature is a wooden mask with a large forehead, small eyes, and a thin mouth, and the spreading of sacred mud onto newly built houses or onto newborn children’s faces. In some villages, the Paantu are accompanied by traditional animist noro priestesses.[2]

In other villages, the Paantu will chase after small children, making them cry, or chase after people who are avoiding having their faces smeared with the sacred mud.

Surreal Woman by Roberlan Borges

My Current Dire Situation

Due to essentially a year of overdrafting -1000 or more, there’s no funds left in Dessie’s GoFundMe. Please do not let the amount of money showing in the goal distract you — it’s gone to keeping Dessie and the rest of us alive, which has been difficult up until quite recently.

Now yay, we’re doing better and Dessie has her kidney, which seems to be doing well. But we still need about $6000 ASAP to get us through this. By Monday the 5th would be great.

There has not been a donation to the GFM for 15 days. If you don’t want to go through that, that’s fine I have paypal at paypal.me/kerryren . Venmo is @KerryRen. Cashapp is $KerryRen.

The link to Dessie GoFundMe is

Help!!

Whanki Kim

This mr Rogers documentary is killing me he said so much meaningful things about children....that I love. He told kids they didn’t have to do anything to be valued and loved...that’s so important. Capitalists and dumbasses were upset and criticized him for raising “entitled people” when all he did was tell them that they are more than how they contribute to society.

In response to the news that:

When I was about 11, my father was listening to NPR in the car and I was the captive audience in the back seat with no choice but to listen. It was some gardening and/or food themed show and the host was talking about how carrots grown in the winter produce more sugar. This is an evolutionary tactic on the carrot’s part to survive harsh conditions. And that was when this man dropped the most banger line I’ve ever heard. “When you bite into a carrot and it tastes sweet, that’s the carrot saying ‘I don’t want to die.’” I was floored, changed as a person forever. This line haunts me. The poetry. The emotion. NPR made me the sappy garden idiot I am today, romanticizing senescence and over analyzing the science behind vegetables.

When They See Us dir. Ava DuVernay (2019) TV

In 1989 five Harlem teens are incorrectly identified as having brutally raped a jogger in Central Park. Vilified in the media and convicted in court, they must wait until 2014 for their names to finally be cleared.

San Carlos Hydroelectric Power Plant, Antioquia

“It is good to remember here what fascism is and is not, how it is like and unlike the day-to-day crimes of non-fascist capitalism. As Aime Césaire reminded us, it was run-of-the-mill European civilization, its “respectable bourgeois,” which extirpated 90,000 in Madagascar, three million in Indochina, and colonized the US, pillaging and killing across the continent. Fascism is an extension and intensification of liberal capitalism. As Césaire reminded us, and as Modi’s moves against Kashmir should further remind us, fascism has historically had a colonial or expansionist edge.”

— Max Ajl, Eco-Fascisms and Eco-Socialisms (via probablyasocialecologist)