anger and armor all the way down

pendraegon:

morepeachyogurt:

marlena by julie buntin

[ID: i want to go home, i want to go home, but what i mean, what i’m grasping for, is not a place, it’s a feeling. i want to go back. but back where? END ID.]

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mental-mona:

You may know, if you’ve ever seen a Jewish house before Passover, it’s hard work. It really is. I try and be away from home when it’s happening. You have to clear the house of all products that contain leaven, you’ve got to clean everything, you’ve got to take out a new set of utensils and cutlery and crockery, and it is really hard work. I got somebody in England to design a special apron for Passover cleaning that read, “For this, we left Egypt?”

I used to wonder, why make Passover such hard work? And now I know: because freedom is hard work. And it has to be fought for in every generation. We have to tell and re-tell the story. We have to remind ourselves what it feels like each year to eat the bread of affliction and taste the bitter herbs of slavery.

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Freedom is hard to attain, but it is very easy to lose. And that’s why it has to be fought for in every generation.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"tl, “In Defence of Religious Liberty,” the acceptance speech at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty award ceremony

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sic-semper-hominibus:

sic-semper-hominibus:

i’m not the praying sort, but i’ll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut’s prayer

for those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard’s prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:

“Dear Lord, please don’t let me fuck up.”

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bigmanroykent:

took me a couple of watches to notice it because i was preoccupied with judge mcadoo but i think about the jump high five a lot

narcissistcookbook:

qalbtalk:

kosmogrl:

“…use things to have good days.”

the loading screen trying to convince me to use even one of my 3000 consumables

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staticwither:

Color Palette Challenge

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storyhearts-journey:

wiionme:

Flask, USSR. A ceramic flask fearing the faces of Belka and Strelka, who survived an orbital flight three years after Laika’s flight.

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queenofnevermore:

not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.

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lindsayvanekart:

“Our Lady of New Frontiers, Nichelle Nichols”

My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.

Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.

Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.

prints can be found through my site: www.lindsayvanek.com

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