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Taking life at an 8-to-5 step..

@marchingmermaid

My blog is whatever so... || Bassoon & Saxophone || L.D. Bell Band || 16 / TX
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Eartha Kitt (via omni)

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thetime-ishere-deactivated20180

Falling back into a destructive mindset after being okay for a while is exhausting and upsetting.

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celebrate small victories!!!! u deserve it so much!!! congrats on reading a whole chapter of your textbook! congrats on taking a walk when you felt like you needed it! congrats on that glass of water! ur body needed it!!! congrats if you got out of bed today!!! im so proud of u keep it up!!

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Last remaining speaker of Native language painstakingly creates dictionary
In the U.S., more than 130 Native American languages are endangered, and some are spoken by only a handful of people. Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language. At 81 years ...
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The dictionary took seven years. Marie worked on it constantly, sometimes until late at night, writing down remembered words on scraps of paper and typing them up slowly and carefully. Now she and her daughter hold weekly Wukchumni language classes, and she’s recording an audio version of the dictionary with her grandson.

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The video and accompanying high school lesson plan seem like a decent introduction to language revitalization, although I’d add a small preemptive caution: I’ve heard from people involved in language revitalization that many aren’t too fond of death metaphors like “dying”, “disappearing”, “extinct”, “saving”, and so on. Words like “endangered”, “struggling”, “precarious”, “sleeping”, and “revitalizing” emphasize the agency of the communities involved, even in the case where a language is brought back into speech from writings and recordings. 

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lifeofexcess

Reblogging again because stuff like this is so important. Please watch the video–it’s so amazing and heart felt.

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theeverywhendiner

This is amazing.

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fakecrocs

Yep, talking about a language in terms of “dying” or “disappering” isnt helpful and creates a false sense of inevitability, which is the last thing u need for successful revitalization. Also it fucking hurts those who speak it because that language is alive in them right now - Not Dead.