#passing down knowledge

[coffee-with-a-stranger]

The act of passing down knowledge as a sacred and enriching tradition that honors wisdom, connection, and legacy in your personal and spiritual journey. Recognize that sharing knowledge, experiences, and insights with others is a powerful way to preserve, inspire, and empower future generations to learn, grow, and evolve. Embrace the idea of being a steward of wisdom, a beacon of light, and a guide for those who seek understanding, guidance, and inspiration.

Cultivate a mindset of generosity, humility, and service as you pass down knowledge to others, knowing that the act of sharing wisdom, lessons, and teachings is a gift that fosters growth, learning, and transformation. Embrace the transformative power of passing down knowledge, as it can spark curiosity, ignite passion, and inspire others to explore, discover, and create their own paths of enlightenment and fulfillment.

Practice embodying the values, teachings, and principles that you wish to impart to others, leading by example, authenticity, and integrity in all aspects of your life. Embrace the joy of witnessing the impact of your knowledge-sharing efforts, knowing that every seed of wisdom planted in the hearts and minds of others has the potential to bloom, flourish, and bear fruit in the world.

By embracing the concept of passing down knowledge with love, wisdom, and a spirit of service, you can create a ripple effect of learning, growth, and empowerment that transcends time, space, and generations. Let the act of sharing knowledge be a legacy of light, a legacy of love, and a legacy of transformation that honors the past, enriches the present, and inspires the future on your personal and spiritual journey of impact, influence, and enlightenment.

[lakotaboy605]

Native American youth workforce

Over the weekend, something happened to my vehicle and at my mother's house that made me realize how fortunate I was to have grown up learning how to make various trades. The first thing to happen was on the way back up to Rapid City from the reservation, my ride got a flat tire, and it was dark and cold out when this happened. I changed the tire to my spare and was fortunate to make it back safely during these cold winter nights. 

The other dilemma was that the hot water heater went out at my mom's, and after trying a few ideas, we could temporarily fix it. Having the ability to make these trades made me realize how a lot of younger kids do not have people to show them how to do a simple task like changing a tire. After thinking about this for a few days, I realized something needs to be done to show our younger men the skills needed to be successful in their future.

           Looking at the workforce now and the help from tradespeople shows that some people do not need to attend college to make a living. The pay is way up due to the shortage of skilled workers these days, and it is a career young men can do to provide for families if they stick to it. When I researched the pay rates for skilled tradespeople, I came across this statement that makes me want to do something to help these younger Lakota people get the knowledge and skills needed to succeed. "These career benefits stem from the fact that there is a significant shortage of skilled trade workers. For the past several decades, the gap between the need for skilled trade workers and the supply has been steadily growing in the United States and other more economically developed countries. According to Forbes, more than 3 million skilled trade jobs will remain open by 2028. This means that trade jobs will continue to be in high demand." (SKILLED TRADE CAREERS: KNOW ALL THE OPTIONS, 2021).

When thinking about this fact and the need for workers for the future of this country to develop, if a person can get the skills they need and the knowledge passed down to them by older people, the sky is the limit for our youth. Having older people like my grandpa, uncles, and cousins showing me how to make various trades makes me feel lucky to learn these skills and makes me want to have our younger people know a skilled trade. The reservation is poverty-stricken by unemployment and other factors. If these more youthful kids can get the skills needed, they can come back to our reservation and start their businesses. 

           The time is now for us older people that know trades and skills to start passing these down to the next generation to give them and our reservation hope for a brighter future. Passing down knowledge and teachings is a value our ancestors used for hundreds of years to survive and is a virtue we Lakota men need to do for our younger kids who have no positive male figure to look up to and gain knowledge. 

Works Cited

SKILLED TRADE CAREERS: KNOW ALL THE OPTIONS. (2021, 07 21). Retrieved from ASVAB Career Exploration Program: https://www.asvabprogram.com/media-center-article/135

[st-hedge]

Timelapse for this painting I posted

[tma-thoughts]

"Kids these days can't do xyz" that's so interesting i wonder whose job it was to teach them

[1000sunnygo]

Been thinking a lot about Oda choosing Queen of Night as Law's image flower.

Like. Isn't that really important? In a story heavily featuring sun symbolism, MC with an image flower called Sun-facer, being assigned with "Beauty under Moonlight" is a dead giveaway that the author considers his role to be complimentary to the protagonist, an alternate source of light that takes its light from the sun.

A lot of Japanese fans think the last bit of vegapunk's message, "Those of you who are toyed by that fate, I hope this message reaches you" - was directed at Law's plot. There's no other D who is currently alive and interested in their "checkered fate" other than Law. Dawn and Dusk shared an interesting observation about Law's family being the only family of D's confirmed to originate from the opposite side of the red line (x). Then there's the hidden family name, and a five billion berry devil fruit ability. The groundwork has been laid out and none of these have been properly explained yet, there's no way Law wouldn't be important to the endgame plot.

[heuldoch7b]

hey warhammerheads do you guys know of any initiation rites amongst astartes? probably would be per legion if so.

ive been reading about real world military initiation rites (blood wings, entering the domain of the golden dragon, etc). i love sociology so fucjing much humans loveeeeeeee rituals so bad.

[pine-rhyme]

Today we thinking what if Anastasia knew Māori. Do you think maybe she had a moko kauae (the chin tattoo) and John freted awkwardly around her the first days before he gathered his courage to finally salute her in Māori? Surprised but very kind she salutes back. John instantly becomes a puppy when around her and often attempts to speak his rusty Māori around her, like a secret they are both partakers into, immensely pleased that there are families out there that kept their traditions and languages even if it would have happened outside his control. But the she kindly stops him, forgiving herself that her knowledge of the language only goes as far as a few phrases. Her mother only knew very few words, she can speak even less than her.

This momentarily sets John aback but he offers to teach her (from the little he knows himself), so she could teach it to her children (gesturing towards her already visible stomach).

She laughs bitterly. She wouldn't want to keep him from more important business. But he still finds time to teach her. He desperately wants to reconnect with his coulture. He obsessively latches to Anastasia.

We don't know for sure what happens next. She becomes a sewn tongue? Takes the silent vow? Retreats into the tomb before her children come of age?

Thousands years later John with almost the same emotion and apprehension salutes Harrow with a very akward "kia ora". She doesn't understand. The language was lost entirely in time. He cannot manage to connect to her in any meaningful way.

He could have done better for her. He could have passed down the generational knowledge. He could have been her parent.

Except she wouldn't accept his teachings.

He renames his daughter Kiriona.

[du-sailarar-nerilia]

Going back to what Saphira says about the Ra'zac when Eragon first mentions them before he even knows what they are, how she seems to already possess some knowledge even though she's never seen or heard of them before, and in general how she seems to have a strange level of wisdom even for a child and I have to wonder if perhaps all dragons possess some innate knowledge, or if they can absorb information while still in the egg like in the Temeraire series. It might have been just early installment weirdness and an attempt by Paolini to make dragons seem more mystical, but I do wonder

-Mist

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[anhonest-puck]

guess who’s getting the light of knowledge passed to her?????? :333

[bonefall]

mistystar n who

I think fratboy Podlight who sends his powerful grandmother stupid texts is a VERY funny concept.

"My dad didn't love me because he could never move on from the lover he had in his 20s. My sister is up to no good. I party hard at Aftergatherings about it, are you rockin' with me?"

He is 38 cat-years-old.

[olivegardenhunter]

The sannin as normal childhood friends who have sleepovers and play games in the forest and bond over liking "gross" animals

anon thank you SO much for this mental image. you have made my very miserable assignment-filled day. I have many thoughts about the sannin and baby sannin being inseparable best friends who were just normal kids make up about 90% of them. here's some hc I have about that (sorry for the massively long post, I'm a yapper at heart)

yes absolutely. I like to think of the sannin as misfits who never fit in anywhere else except with each other. there's so many different reasons for this. we know they became genin at age 6. if this makes them the exception, rather than it being the normal practice for a village in tumultuous times, then this must have meant each of them were prodigies in their own rights in the academy (yes, even Jiraiya I'd say, though I'd suspect his was more a case of recognised potential rather than showing any obvious prodigal talent from the get-go). this is further reinforced by the fact the third hokage became their sensei. I doubt the hokage would've taken up any random group of genin as his students. if this is the case, can you imagine how difficult it must've been for them to make friends with others, their age or otherwise? not only would it be hard to relate to their other peers cause of the age and probably ability gap, but I'd imagine people would've found them downright intimidating! all this, along with all their individual personality which, if their 6 year old selves were anything like their 50 year old selves, would've meant the little baby sannin would not have been anyone's first choice of friends.

so I'd imagine each of them being a bit of loners in the academy. then they get put in a team together. recognise they each stick out like a sore thumb from everyone else, but have all of the above common ground. their personalities are difficult for each to get used to initially, but once they do, these three super super super quickly become absolutely inseperable. to call them family would've been a serious underestimate of their relationship imo.

anyway this is all a long winded way of saying YES they're absolutely those regular childhood best friends who have sleepovers and hang out and play games. I imagine that tsunade grew up with a massive family in a massive loving home. direct contrast to orochimaru who's an orphan and, I imagine jiraiya is an orphan too (hence no canon last name). therefore, the senju compound is typically the designated sleepover venue.

the senju compound has mito, and nawaki, and depending on what your hcs are, would have tsunades parents, and I'd think they'd still effectively live like royalties even if the first and second are dead. (hashirama and tobirama wouldn't be around anymore by the time the three became genin I think, because (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) hiruzen would've already been hokage when he took on the three of them as his students, meaning tobirama would have already passed)

jiraiya and orochimaru just being at awe at the way tsunade lives and just how lively her house is and tsunade is just happy to have kids her age at home with her that just gets her cause her parents always nag her about training and chores, mito still treats her like a baby even though she's already a Shinobi that can take care of herself damn it!, and nawaki is so young he's so boring and sometimes gets annoying. so she always convinces her fellow teammates to come over to her house to practice and train, to babysit nawaki with her, to be the test dummy for try out this new jutsu or technique she's learning, and anything else that she insists she cannot do alone and needs them to be there with her

until suddenly it's already dark and oh her teammates can't possibly walk home all alone at this hour and besides my mum's making dinner and it's your favourite jiraiya and she'd scold me if I didn't offer some to you guys and orochimaru, mito found some sort of old scroll that uncle tobirama wrote about a new jutsu that she wants your thoughts on and besides, we have to meet sensei soooo early tomorrow for our mission and the training ground is closer from my house anyway, and you guys are just trying to get out of the bet we made and that's cheating y'know! and and and suddenly the senju compound just so happen to always have a few sets extra clothes and pyjamas that just so happened to be orochimaru and jiraiya's size and hey oro, raiya, look! it's got toads and snakes! and it matches mine! and the adults always just so happen to have two extra plates set at the table during meals, and the house just so happens to always be stocked up with both her teammate's favourite snacks, and orochimaru and jiraiya can suddenly enter the senju compound at any time of the day, with or without tsunade, and are greeted joyfully by the household's residents who had started nagging at them about training and chores and picking up after themselves, and mito is treating them like babies even though they're fully trained shinobis! and nawaki is being sooo annoying today and damn it, why isn't tsunade home yet? we agreed to train at 3!

(the three of them never quite notice that jiraiya or orochimaru's unannounced visits to the senju compound never trigger any of the seals that are activated by the presence of non-senju, non-family chakra in the compound. they never quite notice that the anbu guards at the front never give jiraiya and orochimaru any of the trouble or scrutiny that any visitors or guests to the senju compound are always subjected to, and the guards merely let them in with a slight bow of their heads, the same way they would to tsunade, or mito, or her parents.)

the only other times the sleepover isn't at tsunade's place is when there's a thunderstorm and orochimaru insists he needs to spend the night at his apartment because he tells them that last time the storm was this bad, lightning had struck a branch that smashed through his apartment that, if he wasn't already there and was even a little slower, would have destroyed the very few things his parents had left him that he so carefully keeps in a chest and he cannot ever take the risk that that would ever happen again he lost his power and his food went bad in his fridge, and c'mon tsu, you know oro not-so-secretly has a fear of thunder! don't you remember what happened last time at that mission where we were camping? we can't possibly let him spend the night alone at his house!

(later on when they're older, they'll come to find that jiraiya's new jonin apartment will become the new designated sleepover venue as jiraiya begins bringing back questionable sake from his missions that they were definitely too young to be having that he could not have possibly obtained that legally, and mito started banning them from playing card games at the senju compound when she noticed her granddaughter's tendency to lose her entire pay packet in a single game was becoming a bit too familiar to her... like a certain husband of hers' gambling habits that she had tried so hard to make sure wouldn't get passed on to the grandchild who the man had unwittingly taught said card games to at the age of 4. jiraiya started to call his apartment the degenerates' club then, much to the other two's dismay. though they couldn't quite protest when he correctly pointed out they were absolutely behaving like degenerates, even if princess tsunade and the leaf's once-in-a-generation prodigy felt like they were above those sort of disreputable behaviour.)

jiraiya and orochimaru fight tooth and nail that the massive forest that makes up the backyard of the compound, created by the shodaime himself of course, is the only reason they choose to hang out with tsunade at the senju compound, because princess tsunade (dammit oro stop calling me that!), the shodaime hokage seemed to have left so many fascinating things in this forest, there's so many secrets to discover. I don't think I've seen any of these species anywhere else in Konoha. I believe the secrets to some of his jutsu or techniques lie in this forest... oro you're such a nerd. and besides, Princess, the snakes here really seem to like oro for some reason and I think the toads are about to make me their king, I'm sure of it! and also, me and oro are the only people who don't find the fact you use the slime from those slugs in your potions or whatever absolutely disgusting, so we're the only friends you have to play in this gigantic forest with in the first place (it's not potions, it's a new medicinal gel I'm creating! and can you two just shut up? hide and seek is supposed to be a SILENT game and right now, you both really suck at it! I can literally locate you without even moving!) ...hey tsu, is mito-sama going to make those cookies she made last time again? she told me yesterday she would cause hiruzen-sensei told her we did a good job on our last mission.

the three of them knew everyone in Konoha had started calling them the 'Hokage's brats' behind their backs. but none of them realised that, particularly among the elders, this didn't seem to just be in reference to their sensei... there were other, more hushed whispers going around that if they had tried to listen to, would've sounded something like the adopted senjus... or lord first and second's legacies...

(these rumours may or may not have started when people started noticing tsunade's parents went from talking about their two children they adored, to their three rascals plus sweet little nawaki. or when mito kept comparing jiraiya's antics and personality to hashirama or orochimaru's brooding nature and hunger for knowledge was like tobirama's, or how tsunade's own hot temper and tenacity but also mischief was like her own's and the many Uzumakis that came before her, and that all three of them together balanced each other the way she, hashirama, and tobirama had. or when hiruzen constantly raves about his students and how much he sees his senseis in each of them and how the will of fire burns so brightly in them that he knew lord first and second would be extremely proud to see. in the end, though tsunade may have been the only one who shared a name with the senju founders, everybody couldn't help but see hashirama and tobirama and everything they had been and everything they had stood for in all three of the legendary sannin.)

[buckybarnesisjewish]

Bucky being really involved with the youth at his synagogue. The kids always seem drawn to him and he finds himself roped into helping out with youth activities, but soon finds it’s something he enjoys. Teaching them to make challah the way his mother taught him. Helping the kids with their Hebrew studies. He’s a valuable resource of Jewish history. Sometimes he’ll talk to the teens about the war because they’re older and understand, but none of them ever press him to talk about his experiences. What the kids seem to be mainly interested in is how Jewish life has changed for kids since Bucky was a kid. They want to know how their shul compares to his, what games he played, and hear the stories he can pass on about living in a Jewish immigrant community. He often finds the kids ask the questions but the grown ups in the room are listening just as intently. 

[hiimcanadia]

I love how deeply human it feels to braid my hair. Like. Since the dawn of humanity people all over the world have been looking at their long hair and going "you know what would make this easier to manage and also look beautiful? If I condensed some of this a bit." And now, in the modern age, I can be one of those people

[tonysopranosfeverdreams]

I love when I bring my cats to my parents place and they hang out w their cat and they do the cat equivalent of kid cousins at a family hangout which is like. Going to the garage and accidentally breaking something in some like mass hysteria version of a normal game you’ve just made up which is throwing table tennis balls to try and catch one in a ceiling beam but u end up getting them all stuck up there knocking something important over and your parents are all sooo stern but you can’t stop giggling and then they get more mad but have to be nice abt it because it’s a family hang

[mistocho]

terminator 3 is not a real film to me, but the idea of a john connor, alone after his mother’s death, living in a world where skynet seems to have been stopped before it ever started, yet he has been raised from birth to defy it. what does a messiah do when he has no one to save?