enough small talk, tell me all the weird stuff you’re into.

the irony of this year's met gala theme being based on a short story about cloistered, decadently-dressed aristocracy desperately pillaging the natural resources at their disposal to hold the advancing tide of the restless underclass at bay is honestly baffling

Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it's called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes

I love fashion and distraction and consumption as much as anyone else indoctrinated into the cult of America. And I hate self righteous grandstanding. So I'm really not trying to be an asshole when I ask: does anyone have a list of celebrities who refused to attend the Met Gala in solidarity with Palestine? I'd like to throw some support their way.

I don't have a giant circle of influence to be sure, but I want whatever noise I make to be added to the outcry against genocide.

Wildlife crossing underneath US Highway 93 in Montana

Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

Turn ON the sound

AMAZING

Slow down, turn on the sound and take a couple of minutes to enjoy this!

I think Vivaldi would have been tickled by this as he actually wrote so much of his music for an all girl orphanage/school. So to see a group of girls still playing his music hundreds of years later?!?!?! On an instrument he'd never seen?!?!?!

Wow, the drama in this performance. Genuinely amazing.

Until you give freedom to your emotions, they won't be free to leave you.

Once stuck within you, an emotion becomes something else:

an insecurity, a trigger, a compulsion, a blind spot, a trauma.

An imprint.

When free from imprints, we can be as we truly are: natural.

To free ourselves from old imprints and to free ourselves from forming new imprints is the twofold essence of practice.