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The DIY Couturier: 21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You're Depressed.

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:37:41 +0100

The DIY Couturier: 21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You're Depressed.:

A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet – the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren’t Happy, you simply weren’t doing the right things.

I’ve had depression for as long as I can…

carladoll6: thegodmolecule: here is a tribe in Africa where...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:42:51 +0100

carladoll6:

thegodmolecule:

here is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it.

And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.

In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.

The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

This is so sweet.

putinarainbow: My little Putin so

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:52:19 +0100

putinarainbow:

My little Putin

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Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:59:04 +0000

"You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:00:37 +0000

“You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

- Franz Kafka

troysvisions: Why Are You Still Here?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:51:18 +0000

troysvisions:

Why Are You Still Here?

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:57:35 +0000

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:05:00 +0000

Without the white border, one would be more content. That is...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:38:58 +0000

Without the white border,

one would be more content.

That is what you get, when you use the conversion on a colour copier and can not change the settings.

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Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:25:23 +0000

by Martin Gruell

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:18:26 +0000

by Martin Gruell

The existence of my self in this moment, the annihilation of moral judgements in my head, through...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:56:08 +0000

The existence of my self in this moment,

the annihilation of moral judgements in my head, through which, i used one eye to voice.

Disappears, into the vague abyss no longer necessary this implicit idea of truth in a way that one vouches for the ideal status on humanity.

Why is it that we can not have an equality? Is that ceteris paribus is not the case for human nature. That we are confused over what it all means, because it means nothing.

Life means nothing, it just is.

Now roll with it, and jump to dive, to swing from trees and sing with birds.

that life we run so far away from, is here, apprehend it, touch it and taste it

Play for some of it is fun, and some of it is hard. But as long as we can find the virtue within it, we exist to bring joy to those who are finding it difficult to track.

Love

Khalkha Mongolian Noblewoman, ca. 1908 I still don’t know how...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:07:18 +0100

Khalkha Mongolian Noblewoman, ca. 1908

I still don’t know how they did some of that stuff with their hair. Some of it must be wigs/falsies/hats but even so…

This passage from Jennifer L. Hanson’s Mongolia might be of interest to you.

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Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:42:47 +0100

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:56:50 +0100

Ruth Orkin: Einstein Laughing, 1953

Lucien Clergue: icasso dans l'atelier au milieu de ses tableaux, Mougins, 1965

Joel Shapiro: Untitled, 1989

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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:30:33 +0100

"We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we..."

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:32:02 +0100

““We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We’ve lost our connection to ourselves.””

- http://synapticstimuli.com/