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"Grandma how do you deal with pain?"

"With your hands, dear. When you do it with your mind, the pain hardens even more."

“With your hands, grandma?"

"Yes, yes. Our hands are the antennas of our Soul. When you move them by sewing, cooking, painting, touching the earth or sinking them into the earth, they send signals of caring to the deepest part of you and your Soul calms down. This way she doesn't have to send pain anymore to show it.

‘’Are hands really that important?"

"Yes my girl. Think of babies: they get to know the world thanks to their touch.

When you look at the hands of older people, they tell more about their lives than any other part of the body.

Everything that is made by hand, so it is said, is made with the heart because it really is like this: hands and heart are connected.

Think of lovers: When their hands touch, they love each other in the most sublime way."

"My hands grandma... how long since I used them like that!"

"Move them my love, start creating with them and everything in you will move.

The pain will not pass away. But it will be the best masterpiece. And it won't hurt as much anymore, because you managed to embroider your Essence.”

~Unknown Author

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Benzaiten, the Goddess of Music and Good Fortune

弁財天図

Kano Joshin

mid-17th century

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

DIMENSIONSImage: 81.2 x 34.2 cm (31 15/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

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Teacher greets students, by having them choose which greeting is most comfortable for them.

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socialjusticeissue

B O U N D A R I E S

WE STAN

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i love the variety of choices and that the kids get to pick day-to-day. sometimes you need a silly dance, some days a hug, and sometimes you need the distance the formality of a bow affords.

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theliralen

some days you just need the silly dance….

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junewild asked:

your tag “sometimes a historian is someone who etches marks on the wall to catalogue your growth” made me clutch my chest and sit down. yes. i’m literally going into a public history grad program next year and you just casually summed up the entire field and why i love it. thank you

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catadromously answered:

here is a gravestone from ancient Athens, a young girl with her favorite pets.

here is a food-sharing scene from the Maya site Calakmul. when they remodeled the building, the people there packed this mural with mud to preserve it.

here is a child’s footprint stamped into clay in Mesopotamia more than 2000 years ago. many of these have been found, and some are inscribed with the children’s names. 

we don’t want to forget each other. that’s history.

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[image ID: Text reading Texas State Aquarium staff stated that the animals have been getting a little restless. One of the employees had an idea to let some of the land animals spend time with some of the sea animals, and it has worked out brilliantly.

Putting the sloths near the dolphins was the biggest surprise of all. The dolphins are absolutely delighted with the sloths, and the sloths, normally very quiet animals, have been squeaking replies back to the dolphins for hours at a time. Who would have guessed these two species would be such a great match?

There is a photo of two dolphins in a large pool, their heads peeking out above the water to look at a brown sloth, who is hanging on a branch. End ID]

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hemipelagicdredger

As alien species encounters go, this is like the absolute best possible outcome