me as a mom

i just think that, most of the time, you really do need to teach people how to love you. and equally, you need to be taught how to love others. this can feel scary and hard and even like a failure, especially if you're approaching a relationship with trauma - shouldn't it be easy to love me? yeah ofc. but love is an act of translation between people across experience, geography, culture, memory. it's constant, purposeful translation. and though it can be hard, there is real joy to be found in the teaching and learning of love.

Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.

More... https://imgur.com/gallery/100MhvX

FOR THE RECORD. i am aware that i am cheesy, corny, embarassing, cringe, stupid, have bad taste, etc. it just means i get to skip to the front of the line at the gates of heaven

That moment that you walk down even the slightest slope and find yourself doing the Vince McMahon Powerwalk.

im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers

the first rule of Ken Club is horses