Milk Cartons and the Question of Man
Today I bought a liter of milk. It was in one of those paper boxes, where you have to pinch the top inwards, making a triangular opening. I’m making it sound more complicated than it is, but I was able to open it with an unusual amount of ease as I poured it in to my 12 PM coffee.
It reminded me, suddenly, that for the past few months on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I’d been volunteering at an elementary school in the afternoons. Where kids from 5 to 7 would line up with their little milk cartons from the cafeteria, patiently waiting as I fumbled with each box. I’m not a very graceful person, and it took me a few dozen times to be able to open it properly without making a tear. But by the holiday party we had, by gosh could I open those milk boxes.
I’m not very clear and this message is very basic. But a key part of my religion will always be we learn from man- by helping others, by willing to be the person people will turn to with complete trust for even the most menial tasks, we learn to help ourselves.
So this isn’t about milk cartons- or at least it mostly isn’t. GD doesn’t *seem* to give us much in the modern day- no parting of the Red Sea, no bread from heaven- but He certainly has given us each other.
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Don’t wait up…
colored this panel from @thegunnsara's Back to the Past comic (part 6) :]
the bottom panel was so striking when I first saw it that I just needed to color it heheh
sorry it took a while to finish ><
orig under cut vvvv
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what if YOU were a poor little animation studio who kept straightifying the very homosexual moments between a tiger and a malnourished victorian child in order to make the anime more appealing to the general public. but THE MANGAKA HIMSELF said NO here’s a scene where said malnourished victorian child sensually bites the tiger’s neck while he’s transformed as a vampire and U HAVE TO ANIMATE IT THIS TIME BCS ITS IMPORTANT TO THE PLOT!!! now bones if you straightify that scene like you did to akutagawa telling atsushi to run you fool then you can trust that i’ll find you more than you trust in god
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| By Way of Wit | rated M | COMPLETE |
The jury summons arrives on a Friday.
“You have to get yourself disqualified,” Alex says.
Kara frowns. “What about my civic duty?”
Her sister ignores her. She’s on her phone, already finding her an out. “Your occupation should qualify you for an exemption,” she discovers. “It says here, if you’re full-time military, or a firefighter, or a cop—”
Kara holds the letter up for Alex to read. “They didn’t summon Supergirl,” she says. “They summoned Kara Danvers, freelance food critic and full-time reporter.”
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In which no one escapes jury duty, not even superheroes and celebrity CEOs, and when Kara Danvers and Lena Luthor end up in sequestration, well—the defense submits that there's more than one type of civic service.
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He's got nice Triceps!
Meet Brent! He's a very kind dino who never hesitates to offer his assistance when someone is in need, whether it's sharing a meal, stitching torn clothes or healing the wounds 🌱
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