Becca Kello

good: Americans are more likely to be killed by lightning than get HIV from a blood transfusion. So why is there still a lifetime ban on gay men donating blood? Amanda Hess looks into the structural homophobia of the blood supply: Even some guys who are otherwise out of the closet have copped to lyingContinue reading

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION

thepoliticalnotebook: “I never believed that the moment freedom would come, but if it did I wanted to be well-dressed for it.” – Charles Mamur, a former child soldier bought this suit two years ago, hoping to wear it for the independence of South Sudan. He will be wearing that suit today in the newly mintedContinue reading

At the theological discussion I go to on Thursdays, there is a kind conspiracy theorist who wears hats with buttons on them. We are an odd, wonderful group. (Taken with Instagram at Panera)

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. Gabriel García Márquez (via bookmania)

sunsurfer: Rainforest Canopy Walkway, Borneo photo by Jollence Lee

I can paint the world.

I was rounding out the outlined circle for my painting of the Earth for my preschool classroom and it hit me. That moment when you are struck with the beautiful genius of this life we live and you get goosebumps. I know how to paint the world. My life path has lead me to live in aContinue reading “I can paint the world.”

The A.T. on CNN

northtomaine: For a nice refresher, check out this rundown of the Appalachian Trail today on CNN. The A.T. on CNN

Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is beautiful. Softness and plumpness and roundness are beautiful. It’s more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous, than to sit for pictures. A woman’s soft tummy is a miracle of nature. Beauty comes from tenderness. Beauty comes from variety, from specificity, from theContinue reading

I am more than my past.

My grandmother was an overt racist; growing up in a small town in middle Tennessee paved that way of life. She wasn’t the “quiet, ignore people with brown skin” racist, but the vehement, outspoken kind that makes your stomach turn to think that anyone could speak to another human that way. In 2005 when anContinue reading “I am more than my past.”