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This is my potato plant. I've named her Sharon Tate as all my plants have names in the scheme of murder, death and occultism. I'm going to hill her up soon.
#gardening#potato#containergarden#potato plant#the octopus' garden#learning to grow#self sufficient living
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energy alignment and evolving spaces
energy alignment and evolving spaces
I came across this on instagram the other night. It struck a chord in me as I immerse myself in packing.
I like how it says not ‘aligned with who you are anymore’.
I like the idea of your space evolving as you do.
I’ve been thinking about this concept as YBW and I leave this house to live in the new house.
The new house will begin with who we are together, where and how we are aligned now.
A new…
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#alignment#all the feels#clutter#curating your environment#energy#growth mindset#healthy relationships#learning#learning to grow#life#living my intention#love#mental health#mindful#mindful living#organization#positive energy#purging#relationships#self reflection#truest self
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Basking or Growing: the Black Decision.
Have you ever tried to get some friends to do something that would be epic! But it just won’t come together? What could be worse than having all the best resources but being unable to pull those resources together? It’s like.. African Americans!
We move cultures forward at the change of a radio station. Create universal styles with the snap of a photo. It’s a fact to almosT anyone, that most American music is based in African roots. Especially now with the Afro pop rhythms that have made their way across the Atlantic. Most fashion trends are set by the black culture and especially now that celebrities are making their mark again in the fashion industry. FENTY taking the world by storm, even with some greats returning like Baby Phat to restate their claim. Atlanta is becoming its own “black Hollywood” arguably taking the title of the place to be. Hell even Black Gay colloquiums inevitably transcend color and even sexual boundaries.
Yet with us building all of these great cultural moments and such..why aren’t we benefiting? While many will argue that some of us do, they are not seeing the issue and the point of this. SOME of us are benefiting... not all of us. Since there is no logical reason as to why everyone can’t be, it needs to be addressed.
We need to figure out how everyone can benefit. Not just in a sense of basking in the glow of others.. but to make sure “everybody eats b”. Not just eating but learning what wealth is versus being rich. Building assists outside of jewelry, cars, and platinum plaques.
Some men don’t want to learn anything outside of what they know. Maybe in fear of the change but inevitably their complacency creates a cycle of UNeducated bystanders. Our queens could literally take over the world... but it’s too many unfocused. Petty, and fighting for clout and spots that can’t be “claimed.” Wasting time, and money of yours and others?
What about land, stocks & bonds? Something that will appreciate with time. Somehow we’ve been told about the importance of “guns and butter” but we haven’t taken it in. Only when someone has reached a pinnacle such as opening a black owned film studio, do we acknowledge the come up. Can we acknowledge the struggle? Will we ever see that we are all we got, all we need, and need to get out of our own way.
Awaiting Your Response,
Christopher Marquisè
#africanamerican#fashion#music#musician#hiphop#rnb#fenty#babyphat#learning#wealth#rich#eachoneteachone#blackownedandoperated#culture#tylerperry#revolution#basking in the glow#learning to grow#blackblogger#writer#poet#model#Marquisè
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Growing Like a Wildflower
A Wildflower
“A flower of an uncultivated variety or a flower growing freely without human intervention.”¹
“Wildflowers find themselves growing anywhere. They grow in the most unlikely of places, even in the darkest of night. They find any cracks and crevices that will allow them to sprout up, and they do just that. They grow despite everyone’s belief that they never would. They allow the rain to heal them, not drench them.”²
There is a toughness and simultaneous beauty to wildflowers that I have grown to admire. They grow in the most unlikely of places and resiliently find a way to blossom in the most challenging of circumstances. It’s science.
What I love most about the characteristics of a wildflower is that it grows freely, resiliently and untamed wherever it is planted. It is even able to grow in the unlikeliest of places – in cracks, in crevices, in forgotten fields – and they bring beauty to the space that they inhabit.
There’s a quote that keeps popping up on my Pinterest feed and popping into my mind at moments I need the most reassurances, and it is this by Morgan Harper Nichols, “And somehow, after everything, she still bloomed in the way she was meant to.” (It might also be my phone background.) Morgan Harper Nichols is an artist, a writer, and a storyteller. In 2017, Morgan started a project where she invited people to submit stories to her website. From there, she began creating art inspired by the stories her readers submitted and then sent the person who submitted their story the artwork at no cost. Her words and artwork are illustrative of hope. I am in awe of her talents and the way in which she uses art to build a human connection to bring hope and reassurances to the world. It’s incredible.
“And somehow, after everything, she still bloomed in the way she was meant to.”
When questions start to come up that I don’t yet have the answer to, I refer to this quote. I feel like this unearths the hope that lies within. It’s the reassurance that no matter what detours or winding turns that feel as though they’re pulling me off course come my way, the experiences have grace within them. I feel like she created those words for me.
This season of my life is about growing and learning to listen to my intuition again. It’s a season of looking at the world in a relaxed, matured lens. It’s teaching me patience and to appreciate the fruits and blessings I currently have in the now. It’s having me take a step back from looking at the future and the next step and focusing on appreciating the here and now, in order to know more clearly what I want the picture of my future to look like. It’s also creating a space to let in a rush of gratitude, because when you take the time to pause and reflect, you can’t help but pull out of that place of unfulfillment and count the things that you do have that maybe you didn’t have years ago. It’s allowing me to look at the twists and turns of decisions I’ve made with an objective lens and learn a lesson from it. Giving yourself the space to turn an ordinary, plain moment into a significant pause of reflection to appreciate how far you’ve come is renewing. It’s hard to slow down in a society that elevates and applauds productivity. It’s hard to slow down when my mind is comfortable operating at a heavy pace and my fingers itch for a distraction often found in mindless apps on my devices. It’s tough to turn off the outside world – full of opinions and misplaced directions and decisions – and come into my own body and listen to my mind, my thoughts.
Lately my happiness hasn’t matched my picture of what life would look like by now. The timeline is off. Dreams deferred, along with befuddled expectations are all funky. That’s my technical term for it. Funky. They’re criss-crossy and tangled and difficult to follow and unexpected. It doesn’t match my picture.
But it’s my story.
And that, my friends, is beautiful in and of itself.
Because you’re unique, lovely and hand-made with not one being the same to make up this fabric of the world. So embrace those qualities and sink more into your unique, one-of-a-kind gifts and find your people that have those similar qualities too. And get together and make great shit happen, so that you can share your beautiful, wildflower story of how you overcome. I hope that you fill up your day with words of love and wisdom and reassurance and hope. And that you truly believe you have a wildflower heart within you, meant to blossom in the hardest and darkest of times because you bring beauty to this world simply with your story.
“You want to be happy, Doc? Change your picture. Or change your life,” said Wade Kinsella from Hart of Dixie on Netflix (the full quote is beautiful and located on Pinterest) to his love interest Zoe Hart as played by Rachel Bilson (shoutout to all my Gossip Girl fans!). Please go watch it if you haven’t. It might be my favorite, weird, lovely love story. And I think Wade Kinsella had some wisdom when it came to leading a happy, satisfied, contented life. He was a wildflower, learning to grow in the toughest of places, but he was resilient. He was kind to himself.
In this season of growing, I’m learning to embrace the beautiful and the tough sides of me, to be kinder to myself, to give myself patience in this place of grace and rest.
I came across this quote as I was searching Morgan Harper Nichols’ blog and I’ll leave you with this:
TRUTH ABOUT GRACE
Here’s the truth about grace:
It probably won’t look like you expect it to.
It probably won’t even really make sense to you,
because it’s glorious unmerited favor,
and nothing else really works that way.
There are so many things in life that say to you:
“You are not worthy, and you will never be worthy
unless you can prove it to me.”
But grace says something else.
Grace says:
“I see where you are,
and I know that you have been lost out here,
but there is still a way Home for you.
And you are free to carry on
on that journey,
even before it makes sense to you.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
Dictionary.com
The Odyssey Online article Have a Heart Like a Wildflower
Growing Like a Wildflower was originally published on Elise Kovi
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Unknowingly, her toxicity levels are rising again.
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Alright. You guys know the other day I was feeling incredibly self-conscious and overall in a bad mood. It was because of this day, taking these photos in my photography class and not being happy with how I looked at all. But these were the ones I felt most happy with after giving myself a few days to return to them. I’ve grown more confident, but I still have my downs. I’m not a model, nor am I trying to be. This was simply for class, and I had fun! I just didn’t see myself in a likable way at first. I’m still growing.
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the thing is if I give a writing prompt--even a detailed story outline--to 10 different writers, I'm gonna end up with 10 different stories, and be excited to read each and every one.
so I don't really care if there's no such thing as an "original idea." there are plenty of original executions. maybe it's been done before, but it's never been done your way.
#not a shitpost#writing#also um...there ARE plenty of original ideas? there's like a bunch of them#including a ton of mediocre and outright terrible ideas bc Original doesn't automatically equal Good#also...please write mediocre stories. write mediocre stories bc that is how you LEARN.#write mediocre stories bc every good story was written by a writer who practiced and practiced by writing mediocre and lousy stories#mediocre is a stepping stone to good. lousy is a stepping stone to mediocre. worse is the precursor to better.#stop shaming people--and especially yourself--for practicing and learning and growing as a writer/artist/creator etc#if you are making art to the best of your current ability--that is as radical as it gets and I'm freaking proud of you#GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO MAKE LOUSY ART
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this goes back to one of the things im so scared of with this "new" internet. these kids are growing up thinking their mistakes at a young age are not things they are supposed to learn from and grow from. no one is perfect. you cannot go through life without hurting people, without messing up once in awhile. what MAKES you a good person is how you choose to move on from that. from apologizing and changing your behavior etc. but jesus christ stop acting like people on the internet are not still people.
#lb#dreamwastaken#it makes me geniunely worried about kids online#youre going to fuck up#thats how life works#but everyone has the ability to grow#aside: you can fuck up and apologize#and that apology isnt taken. u arent forgiven#thats just how it is#but you still need to take it as a learned lesson#there isnt a rulebook to this shit
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so that post about some politician calling quillworts weird grass has been floating past my dash again, and like unless your understanding of grass is short and green, it really does not look at all like grass, looks more like idk tiny junkus
yeah i mean, isoetes is really interesting in terms of like, how non-plant people interpret it, because like 99% of normal people who aren't super informed about plants tend to have a few set mental bins of what plants look like and leave it at that, which is fine until it drastically malfunctions at the cosmic horror of what plants can be. so i think people just glance at it, see it has long narrow leaves, and are just like 'ah, a grass', while meanwhile it's definitely one of Those Plants that gets increasingly more 'off' the longer you look at it, which brings us to your next segment,
isoetes images arranged from 'ah, grass' to 'green onion???' to 'by talos this can't be happening':
and finally, my absolute favorite, from the paper last year that confirmed their roots ARE indeed true roots and not fucked up leaves:
#image sources in descriptions#also the roots probably look 'off' growing in gel in the last pic because these are plants from before plants learned to branch#so the woody corm part IS capable of very slightly branching but only if it feels like it and only directly in two#and the leaves and roots cant/dont branch at all#its a big part of why they look so uncanny valley i think#also the roots are contractile and can pull themselves down over the course of a couple hours if they need to#usually because the mud around them dries and shrinks but also if you just kind of. tug them up a little and leave and come back#ive never done it but my old professor tried it once to see if theyd actually do it and they did#(eastern skunk cabbages have these too. probably are a little too big/well anchored to try pulling them up a little to watch though)#isoetes#asks#plont asks
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no.
not lately he did not
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@scumbagsimon you activated my angsty trap card
#lets say being what is considered a monster and growing up learning how to off your kind?#not a great self esteem booster#werewolf au#thats what im calling it for now because i literally svck at names#docm77#hermitcraft#the hunt and the hunted au#hunt!doc
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As someone with BPD who got told all their life to surpress negative feelings and was made to feel ashamed for any emotional outburst, this scene really hit hard. I spent most of my life wishing I had no feelings at all - I even would have been willing to give up positive feelings forever just to get rid of the negative ones. It took me years of therapy to learn that emotions such as anger aren’t inherently bad and are allowed to exist, that I need to learn how to live with them instead of continuing to push them away. I really hope that kids who grow up like I did can learn this from this scene - instead of having to go through not knowing who they are for over 20 years because they keep painfully surpressing a huge part of themselves that they think makes them a monster when in reality it only makes them human.
#and tbh i also hope that parents can learn from movies like this one or encanto as well#let the future generations grow up with less trauma than we did#turning red#bpd
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First attempt at succession sowing today
I planted the second batch of radishes today. I also planted some cilantro and rosemary.
#gardening#containergarden#the octopus' garden#cilantro#coriander#radish#learning to grow#self sufficient living#rosemary
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again and anew
I journaled about Thing 2 visiting before she arrived.
I wrote about my excitement and joy.
I wrote about my desire to learn this newest version of Thing 2.
Who is she? How is she the same as she’s always been? How is she different?
What does she love? What is she passionate about?
To learn as much about this version of her as possible filled me with enthusiasm.
Who has she evolved into as she…
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#evolution#family#family dynamics#family systems#growth#heart wide open#knowing#learning#learning to grow#love#love is safe#mothers and daughters#open your heart#pay attention#personal growth#unconditional love
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Happy kairi day and re:mind anniversary!! Heres hoping for more kairi content in the future and maybe even 👀 a kairi game game one day 👀 Heres a fake one to tide us over tho 😭
#kingdom hearts#khkairiday#khkairiday2022#kairi#ok so the left represents believing in urself and the right represents reaching for ur dreams#lessons id like kairi to learn by travelling to disney worlds#mirabel is set up as a paralel to kairi as they grow together#anna is there
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Fox pLEASE
(Foxes make this unholy screaming sound. It is a very creepy thing to hear outside your window at 3am.)
More baby clones in animal onesies here
#don't worry fox#when you grow up you'll learn how to scream on the inside#star wars#the clone wars#tcw#sw tcw#commander wolffe#clone commander wolffe#wolffe#commander fox#clone commander fox#fox#baby clones#star wars fanart#baby clones in animal onesies#cat art
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Try not to enter 2022 hating yourself for the mistakes you made in 2021. Try to see yourself as someone who has grown, who has changed and learned from the past to make better choices in the future. Because when you see where you went wrong, you have already changed. You have already grown. And you are strong enough to face hardship again and know what to do. That is how we learn how not to repeat our mistakes: by making them in the first place.
#mental health#self-care#self-acceptance#self-love#emotional health#self-worth#positivity blog#self-kindness#2022#new year's#learning from mistakes#growing wiser#growth#end of the year#original writing
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