In Case Anyone Is Having A Bad Night:

i gotta remember this

I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever

for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:

https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]

remove the [brackets] when using it!

As I get older I’m starting to let go of the guilty urge to build permanent habits. Like, a while ago I decided I would start jumping rope every day. I did it for like three weeks and felt good about it. Then I got bored, because of course I did, because I’m a human person. So now I do a bit of kickboxing because that’s what I like now. The other week I cut all sugar from my diet, just for a week, to challenge myself. Now I’m back to eating sweets but I don’t crave them as much.

Growth is about stretching, trying new things, and setting small, realistic goals for yourself, not picking a “good habit” you’ve decided you will be doing always and forever from now on. That’s not discipline. That’s pointless self-torture and unhealthy resistance to change.

What’s good for you today will not necessarily be what’s good for you tomorrow.

Source

Ever since I took a class on material culture and the significance of things and objects in our lives, I’ve started taking note of relevant readings I come across. For those interested, below is a partial list:

Objects of Despair: Inspired by Roland Barthes, Meghan O’Gieblyn’s monthly column examines contemporary artifacts and the mythologies we have built around them.

Fake Meat | Mirrors | Mars | Drones | The 10,000-Year Clock

Concrete: The Most Destructive Material on Earth (more on The Guardian’s “Concrete Week”)

The Unfortunate Fate of Childhood Dolls by Rainer Maria Rilke

AirPods Are a Tragedy

Thinging the Real: On Bill Brown’s “Other Things”

Sum Effects: “Personal or real, tangible or intangible, durable, hard, soft, consumable, or perishable: my grandmother owned none of it. Goldyne Alter died with no possessions.”

A janitor rescued migrants’ possessions from a border facility’s trash. Now they’re art.

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, ed. by Sherry Turkle

Friendly Floatees

Great Pacific garbage patch

Plastic: an autobiography by Allison Cobb

Curating the Anthropocene: “Imagine a future archeologist on a dig in what was once downtown Los Angeles, excavating, exposing layers of history, like the paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits are doing today, finding bones of saber-toothed cats, mammoth, and dire wolves. What does the archeologist of the future find?”

simple & soft asks. send me a number!

What did you dream about last night?

What is your favorite color?

Do you feel more connected to the moon or the sun?

Have you ever wished on a shooting star?

Name a movie that makes you genuinely laugh.

When’s the last time you felt like you were floating?

What do you enjoy daydreaming about most?

Do you believe in guardian angels?

What’s a smell that reminds you of home?

What is something (or someone) you’re in love with?

Describe the memory of the last time you felt true happiness.

Name a song that makes you feel ethereal.

What’s your ideal summer aesthetic?

Talk about one of your most cherished childhood memories.

Talk about something exciting or good that happened to you this year.

Where do you feel most at home?

What is something you own that is important to you? What makes it so important?

Do you believe dreams have meanings or are they completely random?

Do you believe in love at first sight?

What’s the sweetest thing someone has done for you?

Do you believe in mermaids?

What do you like most about nature?

What’s your zodiac sign? Do you think you fit the general characteristics of that sign?

Are you more of a hopeless romantic or realist?

What’s a song that gives off good vibes anytime you listen to it?

Do you usually remember your dreams?

Have you ever written a love letter?

Name a book you don’t mind reading over and over.

Do you collect anything? And what are some hobbies you have?

What do you do to feel at peace?

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

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We can change the world

You are the whole Universe; at the roots of our souls, we are all the same. Yet our bodies and life experiences make us unique expressions of one big Universe that experiences itself. You are powerful because your soul is divine energy (but don't forget that your physical body is worthy of attention and care, because it is the embodiment of that Highest Divine Energy - the universe, god, the void, however you call it).

Although our reality is literally a prison, a hologram called spacetime, our soul does not bow to its laws. That's why it's so important to feed your soul with good things - get to know yourself. Get to know the physical Universe through your human experience, and feed your soul by meditating and connecting your inner Universe with the bigger Universe (that exists out of spacetime and out of multiverses and some call "The Void").

Feed wisdom to your soul - learn about our history, about (quantum) physics, philosophy, science. Meditate and reconnect with your soul. Realize you ARE God, just like everyone else, but you're entirely unique and your life purpose is much different than any other's. Find your life purpose, then act on it and find ways to achieve it.

You're safe and protected by the universe/divine energy. Everything you wish for is already yours. Every thought you have shapes your reality, so cut off negativity!

You are already on the right path. Keep looking out for signs that lead you to your purpose - it could be angel numbers appearing right when you're talking about something specific, people having conversations about your interests... And usually, your purpose is strictly connected to what you already love, what makes your soul sparkle, what makes you feel good. And it could be ANYthing, from music, to technology, to gardening, to leading a country.

Lastly, I'd like to say that Gen Z is the generation of innovation and change.

From 1995 to 2003, Uranus (which rules innovation, rebellion, and progress) was in Aquarius: our generation is the one that can and will change everything; we are unconventional, intellectual, and we will break the old patterns.

From 1998 to 2021, Neptune (which rules dreams, imagination, and the unconscious) was in Aquarius: our generation is inspired by analysis, intellectual pursuit, and our collective dreams are much more vivid. We are more connected to our soul in a way that creates change.

And last, from 1995 to 2008, Pluto (which rules power, intensity and obsession, and control) was in Sagittarius: our generation's psyche is positive, freespirited, creative, optimistic, forward looking, independent and confident. When our generation is in power, it will be for the greater good.

We have all the cards to change the world - so let's do so.🧡🦋