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I rushed home to make this

OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.

it’s absolutely hilarious to me when dogs use pillows. like rest ur head sweetness

it’s been a long hard day of sniffing around the garden give him a break

doing bad look at donkey images

doing so much better now look at the first one she’s frolicking

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Madam, you are looking very posh in your fancy dress, if I may say so.

Those earrings are a delight, darling and I love what you did with your hair.

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.

Every time I see this I always wonder what the painter’s intended message was. It looks so pleasant, that middle skeleton looks so happy with its work.

Maybe it’s supposed to be a memento mori, but a comforting and encouraging one.

This is one of the most famous paintings in Finland. There are multiple interpretations of it but they all share the same base idea:

“According to Simberg, the flowers represent people’s souls, the skeletons are aids to Death, and the Garden of Death is a purgatory of sorts for souls waiting for entrance into heaven. This artwork invites the viewer to consider the afterlife, to take comfort in his or her own passing, and to not fear what happens after the body fails to function.”

“It depicts Simberg’s thoughts on afterlife, which is not run by angels but skeletons who take care of the heavenly garden with a gentle hand, while waiting for more “gardeners” to arrive. It is derived from the medieval belief that the dead sleep in a blooming garden.”

“In Simberg’s garden the humble Death-like figures struggle against harsh conditions; the landscape around the garden has burnt yellow, it is dry and barren. The cherished flowers grow in exotic shapes, slowly, requiring constant care. The black-clad figures love their nurslings. The garden is a place where Death is allowed to realize its feelings of affection. The Garden of Death can be seen depicting the impossibility of this love; maybe the flowers are tender and fragile because they can not handle the love of Death. Love has two faces: one of them is the face of devastation.”

It's not "everyone" acting like it's normal. The majority of people know something's wrong they just don't have the tools to fix it. Maybe a plurality don't know that the problem is capitalism, they blame it on something else, but they're still aware there's a problem. "Everyone" is just too exhausted from working 4 jobs, 50 hours a week to scream into the void in their spare time.

guess I gotta pull out this bad boy again huh

absolutely love this shot where rose is watching her home planet die off after five billion years and the doctor is just slaying off in the corner

Punch Drunk Love shares thematic threads with Drive, tackling isolated, repressed loners and their attempts at finding connection in spite of their nature.

Barry [Sandler’s character] has had his whole character defined by violent outbursts after being pushed too far. He’s repressed. The abuse he’s suffered has put him in direct conflict with his own emotions, where he has to invalidate them when questioned (his decision to bring in the harmonium from the street, the pudding purchases) and avoids opening himself to nice emotions in an effort to suppress the negative, harmful ones.

Finally, at the end of the film, his violence is justified. It’s satisfying to see him take the tire-iron in hand and decimate his foes. You want to cheer him on, to shed his meek, cowed demeanor and become an awkward John Wick, raining down retribution. 

It’s just like the end of Drive. The emotionally repressed, lonely, quiet guy in a fun jacket finally has moral permission to curb stomp all who would raise their hands against him or his love bobbed blonde haired love interest.

Except Punch Drunk Love has no elevator scene with the main character stomping in anyones head. Barry doesn’t have a scorpion on the back of his jacket. When he’s faced with the slimy boss of the whole operation, when he’s pushed past his limit, no one gets stabbed. Barry literally has the phone receiver (that we all want him to utilize as a blunt instrument) clenched in his hand. The predominant villain of his life is right there, within clobbering distance.

Barry doesn’t kill him, nor does he send the phone through the bank of large glass storefront windows. He effectively ends the cycle of violence. He doesn’t “win,” and no vigilante loner guy justice is served. He hands a confused store employee the phone receiver (cord still attached) and walks out of there to a happy ending, one where he allows himself to feel happiness.

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002) - dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

love the word "methinks". like lol. yeah. me sure is thinksing.

Methinks therefore meam

whenever i see another tiktok girlie talking about how she wishes to have been a fangirl in 2010s i feel like a seasoned veteran overhearing a foolish youngin boasting about wanting to go to war for glory and adventure. you naive little idiot. you know nothing. you understand nothing. you weren't there in the trenches. i have seen things, terrible things. i cannot plug in my phone charger at night without being plagued by the visions of Him

noopy btw. if you care

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

@filmnoirsbian

Happy 10th anniversary Fannibals!

Florence Welch photographed by Autumn de Wilde for the Dance Fever era ✨

you are incredible! you are doing such a good job of being yourself