omoblog: When I decided to start coming out a few years ago, it was difficult to determine who would be safe people to tell. This wasn’t because I lacked close friends or family members I could trust; it was because I was in a conservative Christian setting, an environment where it’s often difficult to… GoodContinue reading “Odd Man Out: Safe People”
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John Green’s tumblr: Anxiety and stuff
fishingboatproceeds: (Last DFW-related post for a while, I promise.) In a story David Foster Wallace wrote in college, “The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Things,” the protagonist describes depression like this: “Some people say it’s like having always before you and under you a huge black… the feeling of beingContinue reading “John Green’s tumblr: Anxiety and stuff”
soulpancake: Meet the newest member of the SoulPancake family: KID PRESIDENT! I love that Soul Pancake has found Kid President!! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
tylerknott: Walls will find us in this life, walls and fences and so many reasons to give up, give in. It is up to us, us and only us, to climb them, to cling to them like leaves and grow anyway. Let the light shine through, for there are always cracks. Grow, grow defiant againstContinue reading
Before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. Thomas Merton (via kestergoestogradschool)
soulpancake: pulmonaire: CLOUD by artist Caitlind r.c. Brown brillant
Rick Perry claims that the idea of the separation of the church and state is from Satan, and he and others will next week embark on a 40 days to save America campaign, which (as far as I can tell) means “40 days to save America from Obama” campaign. Seems to me Perry got itContinue reading
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
