#personal retreats

[mlleshopping]

Tips for Cultivating Harmony in a Multigenerational Household

Image via Freepik How to Create a Harmonious Multi-Gen Home The trend of multigenerational households is on the rise, bringing with it a unique set of challenges and rewards. Creating a living space that fosters harmony and unity among family members of different ages requires thoughtful planning and open communication.  Several strategies, from respecting individual privacy to sharing chores…

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

It is very easy to look at Christ’s suffering on the cross and think, ‘I want to bind up His wounds.’ He is no longer crucified - He is risen! He has no need for your salves or gauze or tears. What He asks of you instead is much more difficult. He asks you to bind up the wounds of His church, members of Christ’s body still in need of compassion and tenderness.

[frownyalfred]

something about writing for hours, posting a chapter, immediately conking out and then having feverish dreams about said chapter just feels so poetic you know

[shazzbaa]

Nest in the Eaves was a WILD Exceptional Story for a Light Fingers player for dIFFERENT REASONS, THAN I EXPECTED,

tfw you wanna learn about the Starved Men and instead get scammed into joining a bug cult...... anyway if you let them shape you it doesn't SAY that you get a weird mouth alteration but I just feel like thats the only explanation for Samuel not screaming like he's figured out soylent green as soon as he realised what the "nectar" is

[cluescorner]

A Batman who kills people is a bad Batman. Except for Terry because he is my special boy. Terry can drown a man it's ok. He can literally shatter a woman it's fine.

[chaiaurchaandni]

also remember that no form of resistance is ever acceptable to the colonizer. and that includes non-violent resistance (the great march of return) + non-violence is only successful against a force that has a conscience. but if your opponent had a conscience, he would not be oppressing you in the first place.

[shaissa]

[canisalbus]

To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?

Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.

[beanarie]

i never wanted water once

@sanguinarysanguinity prompted me to write tommy also baking through it.

tw: mention of past child abuse

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"Where did all these flatbreads come from?" Cap asks. "Did one of you save a cafe and forget to log it in?"

"Yeah, huh. I dunno." Not looking up from the couch, Tommy turns a page on his manual. "Box was waiting by the door when I came in."

"Oh damn. Did you get to try the one with the goat cheese and arugula?" Jenner asks, her mouth full. "So good."

Tommy concentrates very hard on the words in front of him and tries to ignore the little pulse of warmth in his gut.

The feeling of bread dough between his fingers, dry under a dusting of flour and pillowy soft, smelling of yeast and occasionally olive oil or rosemary, reminds Tommy of his mother. Of Saturday afternoons when he came back from baseball practice and sat in the kitchen to stuff his face and maybe help out a little. The record player would be on with her favorites, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Laura Nyro, or Cat Stevens adding to the dreamy atmosphere.

She wasn't perfect. She didn't talk much, especially not when some random, pointless, petty thing crawled up his dad's ass and he blamed Tommy for it. But she sang along to her records with a sweet, clear voice, and sometimes she pulled him out of his chair to rock him around the floor in a sort of dance. For those few hours before his dad returned from the VFW, Tommy was safe and happy. She loved him. He'd like to think she'd love the man he turned out to be.

He hasn't thrown himself into baking like this since he was discharged from the army. Once he finds his footing, the results pile up quickly. He starts leaving a box or two behind on his way out for B shift, not only to make space in his kitchen but to hopefully throw anyone off his scent. He considers stopping by on his off days in time for C shift as well, before deciding that's a little unhinged.

Two weeks after leaving Evan, Tommy mentally checks out while shopping and finds himself with the ingredients for keto-friendly focaccia. The dough feels wrong. The smell is off. It seems like all he's doing is building an abomination. But he drowns the whole thing in olive oil infused with thyme and tries a sliver. It's more than passable. He doesn't want it and doesn't want to inflict it on his team, who don't have any dietary restrictions apart from one vegetarian.

He pays someone from Taskrabbit to deliver it to the 118 along with a couple of stromboli stuffed with pepperoni and salty cheese. He gets the tasker to write the labels, not trusting his ability to anonymize his own handwriting.

Then he loses himself in trying to figure out zeppole. They keep coming out too dense, or not frying all the way through.

[dreams-and-honor]

so the new tenant in unit 3 (the one who left the rude ass note for the postal worker) turns out to be the exact same fucking brand of crazy as my mother and she's convinced we're friends

she's knocked on my door twice because someone keeps 'scratching her car' (she showed me the same scratches twice and insisted they were 'new'. It's a used car btw, she just got it recently) and she keeps asking me??? Something? She keeps saying "I dunno if y'all saw anything or..." and getting all buddy buddy with me and it's like

I have one (1) paranoid delusional 'voted for Trump and regretted it immediately' racist jesus freak of a latina woman in my life, I don't need another

Edit: THESE ARE SUPERFICIAL FUCKING SCRATCHES BY THE WAY. Like, stuff you'd expect from driving a car for a while.

[emotionalintellgent]

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[lucybellwood]

A slew of goodies headed off to the Wayward Retreats team tomorrow morning! These items will be included in blind box rewards to say thank you to folks who support our Kickstarter (running until November 30th). The team is primarily raising funds to replenish the scholarship fund for creators of color, which has been amply utilized these last few years. (Hooray!)

I've been involved with Wayward as a retreater and returning facilitator since 2019 and I wanna see this community thrive!!! The whole experience feels like the perfect intersection of my interests and proclivities as an artist.

Also I just wanna applaud them for picking the best photo for my facilitator bio.

"Eyy, you wanna buy a flowah crown?"

Anyway, if you're interested in participating in a future retreat, read on for info about Wayward:

Wayward is a creative retreat for artists of all marginalized genders set on Quadra Island, BC. Free from cell phones and internet, the artists at Wayward have the quiet time and space they need to dig deep into their art, experiment, explore, and hone their craft. We welcome nonbinary folks, transgender folks, and cisgender women from a range of artistic backgrounds with the aim of creating a safer space for connection with self, other artists, and the work. Our artists come back from Wayward revitalized, often with important inroads made into new, experimental avenues in their work. In this way, Wayward fulfills its mission of helping artists advance their art and process in service of a more harmonious world.

In addition to solo work time, Wayward creates space for collaboration and adventure. Retreaters create an interconnected group piece over the course of the retreat week. Optional workshops and excursions into the wild are offered for those who need a break from their work. Morning movement class helps retreaters wake to the day in a gentle way. Daily meals are prepared by the hosts and retreaters together, often with greens from the house’s garden, oysters from the nearby beach, or other local ingredients. 

Check out the retreat website here and keep an eye out for future applications! And thanks to @sawdustbear for their stellar work on this campaign.

[tigwalen]

people talk about being confused as to why white women vote the way they do and there's the obvious answer of being white comes first and how they believe their party will have their back and it's framed as white women not being aware of this party's intention and things like that but like. I can tell you very well that there are white women that are aware of their secondary status to white men, and at the same time an elevated status over everyone else - and they love that. some of them are taught that's the natural order of things but at the end of the day there are some that are very aware of this system and I don't believe in taking that agency or responsibility away from them.

there's a lot of white women that hate being in any kind of non-white group or setting because they get checked for their privilege and behaviors, they would rather be a second class citizen within their own race and privileges then deal with having their ego checked and them being brought down to an equal level of the non-white people around them.

[sweetevoltrap]

Sylus saying "...don't run" to MC when they're finally being openly honest about their desire for one another and their trust and shared spaces.

[fistfuloflightning]

relatives asking me, an ace introvert, when I’m eventually going to get married: 🥰

me thinking about giving up my personal space to share a home/bed/anything with another person:

[sojutrait]

nother wip 😁😁😁