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Reblogged romanced
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*reading historical documents while laying on my stomach kicking my feet and twirling my hair like a middle school girl at a sleepover*

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Reblogged undinesea
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

— Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

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Reblogged anxeious
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(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

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Reblogged undinesea
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“When we feel our own presence, we can feel presence in and around us. When we sit in a forest and feel the trees, they can feel us there too: I’m not merely being sentimental here (I know I am sentimental); somehow scientists have determined this to be the case about trees. Maybe it’s the same as with those we love: We become attuned, magnetized. We embrace what we can reach. The embrace wraps its arms around the absence.”

— Alice B Fogel, “A Love Letter to Longing,” Plume (no. 173, January 2026)

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