#Accepting Change

[lunaplush]

I used to struggle so hard with accepting change in my life....I just wanted things to be how I wanted them to be. But letting go of things and accepting change made me see how it was blessing to let go and let things change. Going forward I hope i can keep that mindset.

[storytimewithsophie]

Accepting Change

I know a lot of my posts have been kinda dark, but my life has been dark recently. Losing a loved one is traumatic and theres no way to down play that. I'm seeing new insecurities and anxieties in myself that were never an issue previously. This event will be something that affects me for the rest of my life.

I'm ready to start change. I've been seeing my therapist, learning how to release that guilt, eating more regularly. It's hard to accept that my partner has changed but when I spend time with her i remember to be greatful and I see how happy she is. She was sick, very sick and very unhappy and theres not much I could have done to change that as much as I may have tried.

I'm taking each day one step at a time, making sure to put my needs first so I have more to give to things that are important to me. I'm relearning how to balance the important things in my life.

I am accepting change, and taking life one step at a time.

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[papermenageriie]

From Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (1988)

[bulldog-butch]

i’m gonna say something controversial yet brave: sexuality labels are a convenient tool we use to define something that is undefinable

[opalrose]

My Time

I was lost for so long. So empty I didn’t know how deep I was in. But with every decision I started climbing. With every decision I rose again. I went with my gut and travelled alone. Dealing with all my hardships surrounded, yet all alone. It was hard, very hard at first, to make certain decisions. To change a pattern I’ve known my whole life. It was time. My time to say “no” and let go. To say…

[seefasters]

no but it's the way for aziraphale "nothing lasts forever" meant "i'm willing to give up the bookshop if it means i can be with you safely" and for crowley it meant "nothing lasts forever, not the bookshop, not earth, not us"

[theseasonofnow]

It is one of life’s most commonly accepted axioms; everything changes. Why, then, do we spend so much time fighting against it? We are continually evolving in our outer experience and our inner experience as well. It is the challenge of being human that for our lives and the working systems of our bodies to grow and work well, they are faced with a significant problem.  We need to continually be…

[bellaciao-ciao-ciao]

[150en]

Welcome to the Etho Lab. I need to make Etho look even more weird and uncanny.

[moisfrenchadventure]

The Revelation!

So following on from my post about inspiration this was the next post I planned to share with you. The one where I had a revelation way back in the summer, in the midst of our renovations. When we left Montaigu we left behind our big black American style fridge freezer. (It was the present I had given myself to recompense for leaving Selsea, the house that I loved so much). So when we moved here…

[idolomantises]

me: you know some of the comments about sera and prince not being able to sexualize them anymore were weird, but im sure that'll be the end of bad faith criticisms

instagram comments: (yelling at me over domino's redesign because they think its "twink death")

me:

[egophiliac]

we were fucking ROBBED

[stemmmm]

Don’t think about it. Don’t fall asleep. Don’t look. Not yet.

fanart for the latest chapter of Then It Becomes, It Becomes, It Becomes A Problem because holy shit

[opalrose]

The End - The Transformation

Many people associate “the end” with “THE END”. Which shouldn’t be the case in the slightest. For example, “the end” of a chapter is not “THE END” of the book series. We get worried and hesitant, prolonging the much needed growth because we are scared of the end. Not realizing that the end is good for us. The end is where the leaves dies, but it’s not where the tree dies. That some things Must…

[desultory-suggestions]

Even if your body isn’t what you wish it were, you can still treat it with the respect it deserves. While it’s completely fine to dream of certain goals and changes for yourself, it’s equally important to learn to appreciate your body for what it is right now. Don’t try to fuel yourself on self hatred.