it’s so wild to me that heterosexual people can talk about their first crushes when they were in elementary school and how they had their first awkward kiss at really young ages or they would chase boys on the playground to try and kiss them and that’s all fine and normal and cute but no one considers the fact that lgbt people experience this too like….i had elementary school-aged crushes on my girl friends and spent hours talking to them on the phone every day after school with butterflies in my stomach and together we daydreamed about throwing extravagant parties together and being movie stars or high-fashion models or pop stars or writers and together we held hands on the playground and kissed behind the trees in my backyard…the innocence of a childhood crush does not only exist for straight people….please stop seeing homosexuality as inherently sexual because when you do that, you are erasing all of the girls whose braids i memorized like a pattern and whose faces i can’t recall but still have love for and their stories deserve to be told and remembered and passed down like folk songs

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco, 1979.  

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

Having feelings about how so many of us end up getting apologetic about how we'd prefer to listen to something instead of read it despite the fact that our current literacy levels are so recent and prior to that so much history and storey telling was purely oral. Preferring an audio book isn't a failing, it's the human desire to hear someone tell you a story.

*sees any flowing water* tch, maybe this world ain’t so bad after all…

self reflection is a good thing but too much self analysis is so exhausting. constantly questioning your own motives and how you're being perceived and whether or not you're being real and what's authentic leads to such a convoluted mentality like. u don't even know who you are cause you just end up being a case study and not a person. i just want to let myself move through the world for a moment

Ceramic Whales

Alexa Verg on Etsy

survival show where grown adult men who dont cook meals or do chores and etc and just make their wives/girlfriends do all of it for them are locked in a fully supplied house and have to try and survive for a year. losers are shot like lame horses. winners are also shot like lame horses.

Now that’s a show!

Strange neighborhood.

ACAB seen on a police truck in San Antonio, Texas

A running dog…amimated in embroidery.

we get lady president because old man joe had to get his hole blasted. proud to be an american today