Everyone’s all “ohhh 2026 bring back physical media” until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we’re not on the same page anymore
Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living
So tempting to keep embarking on the same self destructive cycle over & over & over again . But at some point you have to put ur foot down w ur own behaviors & be the thing that truly saves u
Reblogging again cause I tried this site last night and if you need background noise to focus this is perfect for that, I was locked the fuck in on a task. And it’s also just gorgeous to listen to
I’m a big fan of myNoise, which lets you pick from a bunch of different natural or manmade noises, adjust them for your own tastes, then save a URL to return to those presets. Distant Thunder is one of my faves as well as this Cafe.
Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts of Rosa Parks by less than a year, has died. She was 86.
It was on March 2, 1955, that Colvin, then a 15-year-old, bespectacled honors student at Montgomery’s Booker T. Washington High, stepped onto a City Lines bus in Montgomery. She recalled wearing a light blue sweater and a navy blue skirt.
Later, her mother would say that on any other day, events might have played out differently, but that, as it turned out, fate picked the wrong day to test her daughter. Colvin would explain that she’d just spent February studying Black history and learning about injustices throughout the South in school, and that those thoughts played in her head as she boarded the bus that day.
