June 2012
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hello tumblrverse,
almost a year ago my hard drive crashed and I had backed up everything at that point except for my music. I’ve been putting off trying to get it all back because it broke my heart. It is honestly really fucking discouraging because I don’t even know where to start. But I need to start because music…well, I don’t think I have to tell all of you how important music is.
I...
May 2012
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Stephen Winters →
good morning, friends. if you are interested, the man who did my back tattoo just created a new website and asked me to spread the word. check out some of his tattoos as well as drawings, paintings, and sculptures.
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Nosing Out the Facts: The Retrieval of Intuition...
“…Especially to be examined are those long-held tenets which make life too safe, which over-protect, which make women walk with a scurry instead of a stride….
If we stay overly long with the protective mother within our own psyches, we find ourselves impeding all challenges to ourselves and therefore blocking further development. While I do not in any way advise that a woman ought to...
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Bonita: Ugly Bananas →
“When Scottish artist, Jan Nimmo, travels to Ecuador, the world’s largest exporter of bananas, to gather workers’ testimonies, she observes the formation of the first trade unions in the banana sector for 30 years. The Los Alamos banana workers decide to go on strike for the most basic of rights. But the company which owns the plantation, Bonita Brands, is owned by Alvaro Noboa,...
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Then Winks
“Everything is clapping today. Light, Sound, Motion, All movement. A rabbit I pass pulls a cymbal From a hidden pocket Then winks. This causes a few planets and I To go nuts And start grabbing each other. Someone sees this, Calls a Shrink, Tries to get me Committed For Being too Happy. Listen: this world is the lunatic’s sphere, Don’t always agree it’s real, Even with my...
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The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman
An old witch from Ranchos told me that La Que Sabe knew everything about women, that La Que Sabe had created women from a wrinkle on the sole of her divine foot: This is why women are knowing creatures; they are made, in essence, of the skin of the sole, which feels everything. This idea that the skin of the foot is sentient had the ring of a truth, for an acculturated Kiché tribeswoman once...
USAID FRONTLINES: Pepsi and Chickpeas: An...
Q: As a private entity, what does PepsiCo hope to accomplish through this work? And why is it important now?
Yach: With Enterprise EthioPEA, PepsiCo hopes to use chickpeas to address famine and malnourishment in the Horn of Africa, stimulate economic development in Ethiopia, and support PepsiCo’s business strategy for Africa more generally. Today, PepsiCo is one of the world’s largest...
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Going to bat for our furry flying friends |... →
A great, easy-to-read article about the importance of bats to our ecosystem.
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“What was it like when the walls weren’t packed with insulation, when ‘white noise’ meant crickets? I search for the answers, but all I find is novelty. The city uses nature as window dressing, a means to an end to bring beauty to an otherwise dead and lifeless environment. The advertisers tell us to tromp our SUVs over the National Parks—nature is just a weekend...
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No Queer Girls Are Queerer Than Others: Resisting... →
ahhh, yes.
