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A short afternoon nap restores brain neuroplasticity.

the sun will come out tomorrow and things will be okay i love you

you can literally wake up one day and be like “actually, fuck everything about my past and the self-sabotaging identity i had” and decide to live an entirely new life and be someone who always fucking wins. it doesn’t take a feeling or breakthrough moment or epiphany. only a decision.

Between the 1500s and 1700s, women in Britain, Germany, and Scotland were punished with the Scold’s Bridle—a cruel iron mask that locked around their head, pressed down or pierced their tongue, and forced them into public humiliation. Women labeled as “too talkative” or “disrespectful” were chained, paraded through the streets, and ridiculed. This wasn’t just about keeping someone quiet—it was a tool of patriarchal control, designed to punish women who dared to speak, stand up, or defy male authority. Some masks even had bells so everyone could hear their arrival, turning their suffering into a spectacle. Today, surviving bridles in museums remind us how far societies went to silence women and why fighting misogyny and patriarchal control is still necessary.

THIS!!

“Whatever happens, happens. Stop obsessing over things you can’t control.”

I want to be loved through the art of noticing.

Life when I have time to read again

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and The memory of a bad past.” - Seneca

Oubaitori (桜梅桃李): In Japanese philosophy, the idea that people, like flowers, bloom in their own time and in their individual ways.

I found this letter my brother wrote in his journal to the woman he loved before he died in June and I wanted to share because he was a beautiful writer and had such a capacity to love and I will never stop talking about him