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porch bird

#he likes hanging out on my patio bannister

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trying to read a book about compassion when i have so much irritation in my mind, body, and soul right now is like… i have a lot of work to do lol

#even just narrowing it down to compassion for myself... like my level is under the basement lol

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Reblog if a band has somehow changed your life for the better

People don’t usually understand this 

#there are bands/musicians that literally saved my life lol

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Ota Shrine 大田神社

#irises were my aunt's favorite flower

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anyways, i'm going to try really hard to do some reading this weekend cos i have so many library books checked out that i have not been reading

#plus my magazines are piling up again... #its a dreary rainy day so it will be good for reading #though i need to get cat food at some point and not looking forward to leaving the house

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one of the main ways i fucked up my life is not making any friends in college… like if i would have known that the cut off date for making friends was like college graduation, i would have tried a little harder

#instead i spent my twenties with one friend from high school that was basically a codependent relationship cos i'm ride or die #and she's extremely insecure and we both liked to drink #but i could never really talk to her about serious things cos we weren't on same wavelengths #and now i'm too fucked up to make new friends which is apparent every time i try to go to social events #so i basically only do things with my mom and sister #wish i hadn't inherited the 'too unpalatable to make and keep friends' gene from my dad.. he is the same way -_- lonely bastard

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Charles Ginner (British, 1878-1952) - Through a Cottage Window, Shipley, Sussex

#art #trees

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To the Mole

Little digger, dirt delver, I watched you scramble over Wet bricks, soon to the safe shrubs, Unseeing swimmer of soil To what treasures do you tread? A wriggling worm, ringed and writhing, A soft slug covered in silt?

Oh, Mole, your brother by the river Tossed all work for the waters And yet still felt the call of home. After so long, do you? I would be your heart friend To have quiet adventures. Shake the rain from your pelt, The last drops of a passing cloud. Come out from under the flowers, For I am lonely And long for a companion.

#this is a poem i wrote in grad school in virginia like seven or eight years ago after a mole crossed in front of me on campus #i had never seen one so up close before... i had also recently read wind in the willows (obviously lol) #it's better than i anything i can put together now and no one's online on a friday night so posting it now #last few lines really are like wow i've been writing on the same theme for literally decades lol

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

#haven't heard this in forever lol

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The Who at the Windsor Racecourse, July 1966

#actually if i could smash a guitar once a month or so i would probably be more reliably even keeled

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Robert Tinney’s December 1977 Byte magazine cover

#art #star trek

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though... cut my hair is really good too.... quadrophenia has so many bangers

#also i do love a pete lead vocals... #please everyone look away while i am having a who spiral on a friday night lol

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I've Had Enough - The Who

#song of all time? maybe so... #still hits even when you're not longer A Youth #i'm six or more years older than pt was when he wrote it so feeling great about that lol

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Melancholia - The Who

#i'm about due for a who-naissance so i'm not going to resist this as i probably should #the closest i ever get to enjoying 'noise' music is like end of song guitar noises lol

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Snug. ☺️ From April's Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. Source.

#art #cat

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From Jenny and the Cat Club, written and illustrated by Esther Averill. 1958.

#cat #art