Just Random Wonderings

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isseymiyucky:

You ain’t just gonna skip over this. You are going to reblog and appreciate these fabulous looks on fabulous black women!

Oprah looking like a fairy god mother

Zoe gettin some hips

Oprah just murdered my life

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Zola for Chief of Staff.

Where do I vote 👏🏾👏🏾

Lmfaoo that GIF

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The Morning After I Killed Myself

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The morning after I killed myself, I woke up.

I made myself breakfast in bed. I added salt and pepper to my eggs and used my toast for a cheese and bacon sandwich. I squeezed a grapefruit into a juice glass. I scraped the ashes from the frying pan and rinsed the butter off the counter. I washed the dishes and folded the towels.

The morning after I killed myself, I fell in love. Not with the boy down the street or the middle school principal. Not with the everyday jogger or the grocer who always left the avocados out of the bag. I fell in love with my mother and the way she sat on the floor of my room holding each rock from my collection in her palms until they grew dark with sweat. I fell in love with my father down at the river as he placed my note into a bottle and sent it into the current. With my brother who once believed in unicorns but who now sat in his desk at school trying desperately to believe I still existed.

The morning after I killed myself, I walked the dog. I watched the way her tail twitched when a bird flew by or how her pace quickened at the sight of a cat. I saw the empty space in her eyes when she reached a stick and turned around to greet me so we could play catch but saw nothing but sky in my place. I stood by as strangers stroked her muzzle and she wilted beneath their touch like she did once for mine.

The morning after I killed myself, I went back to the neighbors’ yard where I left my footprints in concrete as a two year old and examined how they were already fading. I picked a few daylilies and pulled a few weeds and watched the elderly woman through her window as she read the paper with the news of my death. I saw her husband spit tobacco into the kitchen sink and bring her her daily medication.

The morning after I killed myself, I watched the sun come up. Each orange tree opened like a hand and the kid down the street pointed out a single red cloud to his mother.

The morning after I killed myself, I went back to that body in the morgue and tried to talk some sense into her. I told her about the avocados and the stepping stones, the river and her parents. I told her about the sunsets and the dog and the beach.

The morning after I killed myself, I tried to unkill myself, but couldn’t finish what I started.

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5 Helpful Tips for Empaths

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Do you find yourself highly empathetic? If you do, you probably have trouble turning your emotions off at times. Here are 5 tips that we’ve compiled that we think will help.

1. Put aside some “me time” for yourself.

It’s draining being an empath, right? You’re constantly surrounded by people, whether it be at school, work, social gatherings, riding the bus, etc. Being bombarded by the energy of others can muddle up your head space and your own emotions can even be drowned out by the emotions of others. Putting aside some “me time” will allow you to recharge. Do things that make you happy! Take a bubble bath, go out for a bike ride, open up a bag of chips and listen to some new music, anything. Recharging is especially important for empaths. It helps clear away those negative emotions that you might’ve picked up throughout the day and it allows you to centre yourself.

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There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like:

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neverforgetwhathappened:

nativeamericanconfessions:

1 Cherokee Trail of Tears
2 Japanese American internment
3 Philippine-American War
4 Jim Crow
5 The genocide of Native Americans
6 Transatlantic slave trade
7 The Middle Passage
8 The history of White American racism
9 Black Codes
10 Slave patrols
11 Ku Klux Klan
12 The War on Drugs
13 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
14 How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide
15 How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide
16 White anti-racism
17 The Southern strategy
18 The rape of enslaved women
19 Madison Grant
20 The Indian Wars
21 Human zoos
22 How the Jews became white
23 White flight
24 Redlining
25 Proposition 14
26 Homestead Act
27 Tulsa Riots
28 Rosewood massacre
29 Tuskegee Experiment
30 Lynching
31 Hollywood stereotypes
32 Indian Appropriations Acts
33 Immigration Act of 1924
34 Sundown towns
35 Chinese Exclusion Act
36 Emmett Till
37 Vincent Chin
38 Islamophobia
39 Indian boarding schools
40 King Philip’s War
41 Bacon’s Rebellion
42 American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery
43 History of the gun
44 History of the police
45 History of prisons
46 History of white suburbia
47 Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism
48 George Wallace Governor of Alabama
49 Cointelpro
50 Real estate steering
51 School tracking
52 Mass incarceration of black men
53 Boston school busing riots

By the way  I got this list from facebook so I’m not an expert but I encourage everyone to look some of this stuff up, 

Number 22 has to do with the fact that jewish people used to be discriminated in the US just like the italian and other european inmigrants they then got a handout from the goverment and were eventually integrated into the rest of white society while other POC still stayed in the dump and keep getting treated like shit.This is not to say jewish people are not discriminated now,its just that it has to do with how messed up it was for jewish people to even need to be accepted in the first place.

and so much more, if I missed something, go ahead and add!

54. Jim Crow
55. Church Bombings and fires in deep south to Blacks
56. Church Shootings
57. How the Irish and Italians became white
58. The Perpetuation of the idea of the “model minority”
59. Housing discrimination
60. Systematic placement of highways and building projects to create ghettos
61. Medical experimentation on poor poc especially Blacks including surgical and gynecological experimentation
62. History of Planned Parenthood
63. Forced Sterilization
64. Cutting children out of pregnant Black mothers as part of lynchings
65. Eurocentric beauty standard falsification
66. Erasure and eradication of all achievements of Ancient Africa and Kemet
67. White washing of history and cultural practices of pocs
68. Media manipulation and bias
69. Perpetuation of the myth of reverse racism
70. The history of white cannibalism
71. White fragility

Number 71.

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a helpful pain scale for people who have difficulty with doing body inventory or quantifying pain

0-10 Scale of Pain Severity

• 10 - Unable to Move I am in bed and can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room to get help for my pain.

• 9 - Severe My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely talk or move because of the pain.

• 8 - Intense My pain is so severe that it is hard to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.

• 7 - Unmanageable I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.

• 6 - Distressing I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.

• 5 - Distracting I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.

• 4 - Moderate I am constantly aware of my pain but I can continue most activities.

• 3 - Uncomfortable My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.

• 2 - Mild I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.

• 1 - Minimal My pain is hardly noticeable.

• 0 - No Pain I have no pain.

Hey this is super useful, the scale of frowny faces on the doctor’s wall really does nothing to help me evaluate pain. When my hands were really bad I knew the pain was there all the time and often impacting my ability to sleep or do things but I wasn’t sure how to translate that to numbers. Looking at this chart I think I under-ranked the pain level. 

I’m pretty much always at a 3 or 4.

I pretty much constantly exist at a 5, maybe a 4 on a good day.

I will always be 6 on a good day. And I’m learning that that’s okay.

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100 Reasons NOT To Kill Yourself

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musicalmayhemofthehighestorder:

“That kills me”

lmaooo

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