#develop

[dk-thrive]

People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming. 

— Kathleen Winter, Annabel.  (House of Anansi Press, 2010) (via Alive on All Channels)

[lilies-and-laughing-gas]

SFMWeek 2024 Day 3 - Develop

My sweet dummy made so much progress, he made one whole friend!! Feel like Nat would say friend is a strong word haha. Either way I'm so proud of him.

[momentsbeforemass]

“I could never…”

One semester I filled in as an academic advisor at a junior college. To help cover a friend’s maternity leave.

I really enjoyed helping students figure out where their strengths lay, what they wanted to do. Helping them sort out what programs and courses would best build on their talents and position them for the future they wanted.

One of the questions I had been told to ask students was about their heroes/role-models. To find out who inspired them. And how.

There was an odd dynamic that I saw in a lot of students when they answered that question.

They would tell me about someone famous they looked up to, who inspired them. With a genuine enthusiasm for doing something with their talents. Inspired by that person.

Then almost immediately follow it with “but I could never…”

Like they were embarrassed. Embarrassed to be excited. Embarrassed because they wanted to do something with their talents.

They were looking at the achievements that had inspired them. People at the peak of their performance. Then talking themselves out of doing anything at all. For fear that they might not measure up to that inspiring ideal.

There’s nothing wrong with being inspired by someone’s use of the talent that God has given them.

But there’s a lot wrong with comparing yourself and your use of the talent that God has given you to someone else’s use of the talent that God has given them. The consequences of that sort of unhealthy comparison is one of the main points of today’s Gospel.

God gave you your talents so that you could be you. Not so that you could be someone else.

If God had meant for you to be them, God would have given you their talents.

Instead, God has given you everything you need to be who He called you to be.

Which means if there’s a talent you don’t have, then you don’t need it to be who God has called you to be.

It also means that you have an obligation to use the talents that God has given to you (which is the other point of today’s Gospel).

In the words of John Paul II, “talent is a gift from God, whoever discovers it in himself has an obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”

Today’s Readings

[thesharkandthesnout]

Just a reminder that it takes 21-days to build/develop a habit but only one day to destroy the newly developed favorable conditions one has built.

[ennaku-sirri-da]

Credo in te

Day 3 of @smileformeweek 2024 :Develop

[ ID: Traditionally done fanart subsequently colored digitally. It is of the game Smile For Me and involves Randy Hapukurk. It is of my AU Roseverse.

Randy here has black eyeshadow and longer bangs.

Randy stands in the center, one foot in front of the other, almost like a dancers pose- raising his hands above and spreading his fingers. A red quill floats above, spilling down dark ink in rivulets upoun his hands. On his hand is his mark of magic, a pointed rose pink star. He looks determined, mouth set in a firm line and brows furrowed. His black Persian Cat, Lady Macbeth, curls around his leg, curiously looking up at him.

Red text above him in a medieval European style reads "Archivum", with the first A being set in a golden box adorned with flowers. Below the text, flowers curl out all around Randys figure, like those on medieval manuscripts. On the left side, among miscellaneous flowers and berries, the known flowers are Liverwort, golden Saxifrage, purple Deadnettle. On the right side, among miscellaneous flowers and berries, the known flowers are Violets, sunset shades Cowslip, Iris, Wild Rose, Hyacinth and leaves of Lupin.

Background is the white paper. End ID]

//

OK this is one I've gotta explain...Basically in my AU verse magic has been gone/hidden from the world for a long time now. But it has recently resurged so someone needs to do the work of documenting it. Enter Randus!!! Down-on-his-luck and money writer...

He starts documenting magic, the old and new writings, becoming an archivist. His work remains underfunded for a long time, but things slowly develop as he gathers a team...

Even his own magic, so amateur that he called it "bad luck magic" begins to flourish. He still keeps the "bad luck" cat he'd found as a stray though, he named her Lady Macbeth.

/

Also him looking emo makes me LAUGH SO MUCH

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Carl Jung

[author-orchids]

You know when you're imagining scenarios of your characters in your head and the development of one of your characters hits you like a Ford F-150 going 200 mph in a school zone

[cheetos-lolbruh]

Stranger???🕴

[happinessisaconstruct]

Feeling weird towards the topic of positive affirmations is self evident that you should probably be doing them 🤭

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Michael Malone - Psychetypes - Pocket Library - 1978

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

Working on my mental and spiritual health was not some walk in the park. It was difficult, eye-opening, and at times a painfully lonely walk. However, with each step, I grew stronger and wiser. I not only learned from my emotions and experiences, but I also learned why I felt them in the first place. Don't give up on your journey because this chapter is hard. Search yourself, seek God, and heal from all that is hurting you. This season is not meant to destroy you. It is here to develop you.

Morgan Richard Olivier - Blooming Bare

[dk-thrive]

I plant my hands in the garden soil- I will sprout, I know, I know, I know. And in the hollow of my ink-stained palms swallows will make their nest.

— Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from "Reborn", Sin. (University of Arkansas Press, June 1, 2010)

[momentsbeforemass]

“I could never…”

One semester I filled in as an academic advisor at a junior college. To help cover a friend’s maternity leave.

I really enjoyed helping students figure out where their strengths lay, what they wanted to do. Helping them sort out what programs and courses would best build on their talents and position them for the future they wanted.

One of the questions I had been told to ask students was about their heroes/role-models. To find out who inspired them. And how.

There was an odd dynamic that I saw in a lot of students when they answered that question.

They would tell me about someone famous they looked up to, who inspired them. With a genuine enthusiasm for doing something with their talents. Inspired by that person.

Then almost immediately follow it with “but I could never…”

Like they were embarrassed. Embarrassed to be excited. Embarrassed because they wanted to do something with their talents.

They were looking the achievements that had inspired them. People at the peak of their performance. Then talking themselves out of doing anything at all. For fear that they might not measure up to that inspiring ideal.

There’s nothing wrong with being inspired by someone’s use of the talent that God has given them.

But there’s a lot wrong with comparing yourself and your use of the talent that God has given you to someone else’s use of the talent that God has given them. The consequences of that sort of unhealthy comparison is one of the main points of today’s Gospel.

God gave you your talents so that you could be you. Not so that you could be someone else.

If God had meant for you to be them, God would have given you their talents.

Instead, God has given you everything you need to be who He called you to be.

Which means if there’s a talent you don’t have, then you don’t need it to be who God has called you to be.

It also means that you have an obligation to use the talents that God has given to you (which is the other point of today’s Gospel).

In the words of John Paul II, “talent is a gift from God, whoever discovers it in himself has an obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”

Today’s Readings

[tribulationteam]

Tinkle-fingers progress report #3

Great news! The main menu is done! kinda.. I might change some things in the future. I also got the theme done! nothing fancy but yknow its still a theme

(Trimmed for tumblr because it was over 10MB)

It's a relief to get that over with. earlier this month I was on face time with Evan (Another member of the team) And I said I wanted to make a main menu.. It's been like 4 weeks and august is almost over..

Shout out to Retro Cemetery Gaming for their tutorial

And Missing Mildred Official for their tutorial on putting music in the game.

Tinkle-Fingers is coming along great and I'm so excited to finally share it with you guys when it's done. To anyone out there who reads my blog posts I wanna say thank you! Anything helps.

8/30/2024 Friday

[yeesiine]

Developing a friendship before a relationship.