backroadshaiku:

irises

already gone by

,,,fence paint peeling

    ____

dusk -

a silhouette moment

with a weathervane rooster

    ____

weather

blowing in…

the dog sniffs the air

the-uterus:

ugly-bread:

Anxiety attacks can take different forms, such as:

• Unpredictable bouts of rage or irritability
  
• Nit-pickiness (obsessive behavior, which may be a part of OCD), and even a hypersensitivity to disarray, chaos, or any sort of change
  
• Fast-talking, stuttering, stumbling over words
  
• Not talking at all
  
• Sitting rigid, staring into space, almost seeming “zoned out”
  

Understanding the way our or other’s anxiety works can help to decrease the stigma and help to calm a person faster and get them out of that state. These are just a few, but it gives an idea of the range in which attacks can come.

(via hiddenandhappy)

 _{I remember when I was doing Rent and I was too thin, and I was doing that on purpose because I’m dying, I’m a HIV+ drug addict.  I remember having to eat raw food and doing all this work to make sure I could stay thin…And I remember everyone asking when I was doing press for the movie, ‘What did you do to get so thin? You looked great’ and I’m like, ‘I look emaciated’…It’s a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be– for what sake? Not health, not survival, not enjoyment of life, but just so you can look pretty.  I’m constantly telling girls all the time everything is airbrushed, everything is retouched to the point it’s never even asked.  None of us look like that. - Rosario Dawson}

(Source: fyeahrosariodawson, via hiddenandhappy)

maileedwards:

dalganinsesi:

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
there is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
there is society where none intrudes, 
by the deep sea, and music in its roar: 
I love not man the less, but nature more”

this movie changed my life but a lot of people miss the actual point of the movie

(via etreenfleurs)

(Source: thursday, via blakesteven)

benningtonstudents:

Communications asks you, oh dear prospective students, “Where would you be if you were at the center of everything?”

I have to admit, after three years of working in this office, I hate that question. 

I hate that question because to me, the most interesting place to be is not the center, it’s the margins, the edge, the fray. The edge is where things are happening and changing - where new ideas are forming. The edge of a piece of paper is where things start to get interesting. You don’t jump into the water from the center of the dock, you jump from the edge.

The center is safe, comfortable, free from risks - you are surrounded by people of similar interests, it is easy because it doesn’t challenge you or push you to explore new ideas. 

Education at Bennington lives at the edges. We are all constantly combining new and interesting things . That is very much what this school is all about. It is the heart of a liberal arts education

In my experience I am most fulfilled when I am on the edge combining things - sculpture, radio, firefighting, math, knitting, anatomy etc. Everyone from who knew me before I came to Bennington is shocked that I am pursuing a career in public safety. It seems insane that I would be an EMT and a firefighter. And it is insane. But because of my experience at Bennington, where I was asked, almost required, to take risks I discovered interests that I would never have found. 

So, as I reflect on my time at Bennington I remember all of the times I was pushed out of my comfort zone, when I surprised myself, when I was challenged to explore something new, when I was scared out of my mind by what I was doing. The edge is where the adventure is and I urge you to go find it in your own way. 

Love, 

Glennis