“Change is never painful;
Only resistance to change is painful.”
— Buddha (via mikefrawley)
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You do, you do.
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Diego the Chihuahua lost his eyesight when he was attacked by a coyote at the age of 5, but when his lifelong canine companion passed away, Diego was literally lost without him. Then Diego’s owners introduced him to Buddy Nixon, a pug they’d rescued from a shelter, and today Diego uses Buddy as a seeing-eye dog by following the tapping of his nails.
7 inspiring dogs from the ‘Pets With Disabilities’ ProjectGod, who’s cutting onions in here?
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein
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“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (via whitedenial-ontrial)
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It Tastes Like Pink!: Ten Lies You are Told Every Single Day -
- If you don’t physically hold someone down, you can’t be an oppressor.
- Racism is physically hating and acting on that hate based on a person’s race.
- White Privilege means you are rich and/or have an easy life.
- Pointing out racism is a racist act.
- Not knowing better is…
“Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.” — Alan Watts (via inacalicodress)
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Neil Gaiman: Pocket Con: A one day convention for Chicago Teens -
Big plug for Pocket Con, in Chicago. July 7th, 12-6pm. It’s free for teens, and the adults who accompany them.
What is Pocket Con?
Pocket Con is a single day convention for Chicago Teens. It focuses on work by artists of color, particularly African American authors and artists, as well as…