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Mayor Cuts Down Man’s 30-Year-Old Majestic Tree, His Revenge Is Awesome
This is one of the best stories we read in a long time. An arborist AKA a tree caretaker and tree surgeon from Redondo Beach, California had to watch the death of one of his favorite trees, which was ordered by the mayor. Although he lost a great battle, he won the war. Find out how he avenged the death of his 30-year-old pepper tree named Clyde.
His story was recently shared online and has already been shared over 150k times. RIP Clyde.
Credits: GoblinsStoleMyHouse
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the greatest skill a woman can learn for herself is self reliance
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These are all great! Just to add on:
- If they advertise that they are energy efficient, ask them what makes them so.
- Aluminum windows are going to make your electricity bill higher than vinyl.
- Old appliances will also add to a higher electricity bill.
- Make sure you try and/or ask what every switch does as well as ask about the circuit breaker. Mine’s not labeled correctly. It blew on a Saturday night once and I had to wait until Monday morning for help because management isn’t in on Sunday’s.
- Most living rooms don’t have ceiling lights. You will need a lamp.
- My bathroom does not have a fan, but you can’t open the window while you shower because it opens up to the shared courtyard and pool.
- Ask if the previous tenant had any issues with mold or pests. Chances are there is an even bigger issue that hasn’t been addressed.
- Ask what they have upgraded since the last tenant moved out. This way you’ll know what quality of work they do and the quality of any appliance that was replaced. In general though, apartments won’t get fancy upgrades. If you are renting a home though, the owner may put in better quality things.
- Read the reviews on the apartment. They are valid.
- Make sure you look at the paint job on everything, even the cabinets. Mine have several layers and it is indicative of the kind of repair work they do here.
- And lastly I wish I would have asked if they were planning on replacing or upgrading anything in my apartment. There are definitely things that need to be fixed that I know they won’t do anything about. The only reason I got a new dishwasher was because my old one broke.
When you guys have visited potential apartments, what kind of questions did you ask besides the basics like what rent and utilities include?
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my parents aren’t teaching me life lessons.
#i need some adults to TEACH ME SHIT ABOUT LIFE
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A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life.
Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.
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Reblogging because I didn’t know half of this???
hi everyone im still pissed we never learnt in school that shakespeare was bi and wrote the sonnets about a dude and a woc he was into
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Just gonna put this right here....
LITERALLY MY FAVORITE
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a witch’s palm.
palmistry placements that may indicate certain natural traits or abilities related to witchcraft.
the mystic cross.
“x” shaped cross located between the head and heart lines.
indicates that spirituality, witch’s intuition, and acknowledgement of power or ability were understood at a very young age.
the psychic cross.
“x” shaped cross located beneath:
the index finger: blessings from jupiter/zeus. wisdom, and a great capacity for knowledge. often destined to teach or impart.Â
the middle finger: blessings from saturn/cronus. intuition, and a great capacity for visceral power. often has natural ability working in dreams and meditations.
the ring finger: blessings from sun/apollo. attraction, and a great ability to naturally draw in your needs and desires. often powerful with enchantments.Â
the little finger: blessings from mercury/hermes. instinct, and a great natural ability for practice. often adopts new methods with ease and natural talent.
the psychic triangle.
triangular shape located beneath the ring finger.
indicates that in this life, or another, you have chosen to suppress your abilities. they are likely powerful, but potentially caused harm- intentionally, or not. (this does not mean they are unreachable, it more likely encourages you to work very consciously.)
the healer’s mark.
a series of parallel lines located beneath the little finger.
indicates powerful healing abilities; the more lines, the greater the gift.Â
the traveller’s mark.
a series of parallel lines located beneath the mount of the moon.
indicates that there is an innate talent and drive in travelling both the physical and the astral planes. a natural ability for astral projection; the more lines, the greater the gift.
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Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
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Something I wish more people would understand…
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okay, i don’t hate kids. i think they’re sort of funny. i like that you can talk to them like an adult and they’ll make sounds like they understand. i taught one kid “phosphorescence” and he looked at me and said, “they could just call it glowing if it means something that glows.” the kid undid the entire science community in one sentence.
but i hate kids.
or really, i hate how they’ve always been expected from me.
when i was five i was given “babies.” i hated the hardness of dolls, disposed of them for dramatic stories between stuffed animals. i knew how to wrap, feed, and care for a baby before i could spell my last name. when i was nine i was already “watching the kids”. i was only four years older than my cousins were. i wanted to go out and play. instead i was expected to have responsibility. by the time i was thirteen all of my friends had told me about how many children they were going to have in their twenties.Â
my hips were “child-bearing” hips. my brother was a scientist, or a fireman, or a steamroller. i was going to make a good housewife, or mom, or nanny, or mom, or mom, or mom.
and when my body hurt, i was told it wasn’t really my body, not really, it belonged to my future children. i couldn’t cut or snip or tie anything; i was trapped by the potential energy that hung above me. a boulder, threatening. i couldn’t get tattoos, because what would i tell my children? i couldn’t kiss a girl, because what would i tell the children? i couldn’t be risky or wild or anything but a lady, because what about the children?
and when i said “i don’t want children” - not biologically, at least, not when cancer and depression and a whole other host of terrible things lives inside me - do you know what they said? “it’ll change, wait and see” “it’s not bad” “you’ll get used to it” “when you meet the right man” “you don’t want to be lonely”.
i don’t hate kids. i’m great with them.Â
but then i’m told again that my life will be forfeit to them - something in me snaps angry. “wait until you have kids” “you should travel before you have children” “you’ll be more happy.”Â
i hate kids! i’ve snarled. i don’t mean it at all. but god. please, leave me alone. i don’t want to be a biological mom.Â
it’s like we’re born with a uterus and told “this is your whole life. your singular purpose. your job.”Â
i want to be my own purpose. not here for the sake of passing genes on.
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I have to live knowing I’m the product of two people who didn’t want kids, but changed their minds once they had me. I’m turning 27 this year and neither one understands how I’m perfectly happy without kids. They both pressure me all the time to meet someone nice and settle down. But it’s like I don’t feel like there’s anything missing in my life? I have a great job, I bought a car, I have a 401k, no debt. Like all things considered I’m doing really good for myself and if I wanted kids, this would have been the point in my life where I felt good about starting a family. Instead all I can think about is all of the negatives.
This is so important, stories like this need to be told. The cultural insistence we have that parenthood is some kind of magical bonding that happens every time without exception does real harm to both parents and children, as you can see from some of these stories:
My father recently told me he never wanted kids, but my mother wanted them. She thought he would love us when we were born.
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I didn’t realize that a maternal instinct is not universal. You know how you see parents in the delivery room and they are crying tears of joy? I felt nothing. […] My boys are well cared for and I am always here for them, but it feels very unnatural and fake and unenjoyable. It is a bit like a retail job you don’t like where you put on a fake persona and slog through it the best you can. I don’t get to leave this job, though.Â
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I also thought I wouldn’t mind missing out on all the partying and holidays because I would have the ultimate gift, a child.
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I always said I would never have children. I hate kids..I do. I am just not that type of nurturing person. I was always very careful to make sure protection was in use (condoms, birth control) but I am that .1% and apparently very fertile. I do not have that natural motherly instinct that all women seem to have, you know..that one that kicks in the moment they know they’re pregnant. I have to work really hard at it and it’s exhausting. I miss my solitude and being able to “check out” of reality from time to time.
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Because kids aren’t the life completer we believe they are.
Are there people for whom having children completes their lives? No doubt. Are there parents for whom the downsides like sleeplessness and loss of personal time are outweighed by the love and joy they feel? Of course. Are there people who change their minds about wanting kids once they have them? Sure. But that’s not true for everyone. It doesn’t happen every time, it’s never guaranteed, and the consequences are grievous when people who don’t want children have them anyway trusting that they will love the child and be happy.
We need to dispel the starry-eyed myths around pregnancy, childbirth, and marriage and create more realistic expectations. Parenthood is too important a choice for people not to go into it with their eyes open.
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