trappedsou11
reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.
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But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it.
But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables.
When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades.
Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them.
The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.
Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.
Like, last year I watched no fewer than twenty-nine monarch caterpillars grow up on my milkweed and fly away as butterflies. I watched swallowtails and moths grow. There are hummingbirds fighting over flowers now.
I did that. Me. You can do the same.
Is this post about making a garden or beating depression
As someone with clinically diagnosed anxiety and depression;
Yes.
*old hillbilly with long beard voice* they bout done tore my pussy UP
Anonymous asked:
you'll be torn open and laid bare.
hehe and then what
cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point
Mark Rothko, Untitled (Red on Red) , 1969
© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society
Private collection of Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg
“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy
Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
The housing market is a fucking travesty.
Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....
When I first saw the interior photo of this library (presented by the architect at a conference), I had the strangest feeling, and one that I’d never had before: it reminded me of a project I did in school. And, in that moment, I was getting to see what it might have looked like had it been built.
Specifically (because there are, of course, thousands of differences between it and my school project), it was those amazing bookshelves. Suspended from the structure above, they become this dense sculptural object and leave the area beneath them clear. Which is wild, and more than a bit surreal, walking freely under these ordinarily heavy objects that would divide and constrict the space. Here, instead, the overall feel is of the open space, soaring upwards and infused with light from three sides.
Which is pretty darn epic. Seeing something that I’d, in a way, envisioned so long ago, was its own kind of surreal, and I can’t help but dig it.
Biblioteca Vasconcelos by Alberto Kalach (who also did this reflection pavilion)
