How My Red-tailed Hawk Says Hello. X

We get one chance at life, and it pisses me off that some people may not get to live their life the way they want to. It’s not always possible to have it all. But if you have a chance - the smallest chance - at getting to where you want to be, I say take it. Take it. You’ve nothing to lose by giving yourself that chance.

broken thoughts (via br-o-ken-poetry)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9QlDX8mPAcc?feature=oembed

I love Amanda so much. This is an animation that uses a voice memo from her phone of a conversation she had with me while I was asleep (I can have conversations while I am asleep, I am told by people who have tried it). 

She found the message she had left for herself on her phone a year or so after she’d left it, and played it to me. I said it sounded like an animated film, and she agreed, and used her Patreon to make it happen…

Only watch it if you want to know what the inside of my head is probably like while I am asleep.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QlDX8mPAcc)

Barbara Tuchman says the widespread apparently juvenile behavior of medieval Europe should be considered in light of the fact that most of active society was in fact people in their teens and twenties

Which on the one hand is like one of those things that’s obvious once it’s pointed out

But also its funny to think there was a whole historians’ tradition of being like “why were medieval kings so overemotional” until Tuchman clears her throat and goes… “Ahem… Have you ever met an eighteen year old boy” and then everyone’s like “oooooh”

“There were no paved roads here when I was a boy. We had to walk for 3 days to get to places that only take 2 hours now. There was never any money for school. We had no wealth or property. Beginning at six years old, I cleaned dishes at a restaurant until 9 pm. Then I would go to sleep and start again. All my money went to my parents. I’d hear stories about cities and airplanes, but they seemed like fairy tales. I’d dream of visiting these places, but before I could get too far, I’d be hungry again. So I grew up thinking that the entire world was like our valley. I thought all children lived like me. Then one day when I turned 16, I had the opportunity to visit to the city of Gilgit. I couldn’t believe it. I saw a boy eating at a restaurant with his father. He was my age. He was wearing a school uniform. I broke down in tears.” (Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

Remember: you are beautiful only when you do beautiful things. Full lips aren’t as beautiful as a full laugh. Skinny hips aren’t as attractive as a quick wit. Think about treating others right, and those others will flock to you in screaming droves.

Welcome to Night Vale, First Date (Ep. 27)

dandelion to seed head

“They do nothing but fight at home. But they stick together when we’re out in the world.” (Namakabroud, Iran)

Amanda Palmer as a statue for a children’s book benefit at the New York Public Library.

And here’s David Hirst’s Verity, that she’s recreating.