It’s Just,,,, It’s Just So Pretty

This is so cool

A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.

— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

I am not getting better and feeling like this is scaring me.

I have heart eyes for a strong young women who has declared her worth and found her own true understanding of dignity and worth after going through trauma and mistreatments. I said what I said.

“…I came to understand that I was the same person the whole time. I’m loved now, but when I wasn’t it didn’t mean that I wasn’t worthy of it. No one but you is allowed to dictate what you’re worth.”

— Anne Shirley Cuthbert, Anne with an E (s3, ep7)

Bloodlines

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Happy Valkyrie Week!

Day 1: Training (yes, one day later)

ancient greek word of the day: συναστρέω (sunastreō), to be born under the same star

It's June 1. It's time.

Go be gay.

Ally pt. 2

Just because something doesn’t directly affect you, doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect someone else. If you are going to support something then it is your responsibility to look at it from all angles, not just from where you sit. Not everyone has the privilege that you might possess. To be a public voice means to also be a voice for those who do not have one. It means to use your interests and passions to create a safe place for everyone, not just everyone like you.