"If you feel like dying, you might wanna sing "
You know what’s kind of beautiful?
In French, you don’t really say “I miss you.” You say “tu me manques,” which is closer to “you are missing from me.”
I love that. “You are missing from me.” You are a part of me, you are essential to my being. You are like a limb, or an organ, or blood. I cannot function without you.
(Source: timorleste, via iswimfor-brighterdays)
So I was talking to my 8 year old step daughter
about how fun it’s going to be when we get to go wedding dress shopping when shes older and then I made the comment we might even get to go shopping for two dresses if she marries a girl and she just nodded like yeah. And then I said or maybe even one still because the girl she might marry might not like wearing dress like Jeana (a very good lesbian friend of the family who pretty much looks like a guy) and she said oh yeah, like this was another possibility that wasn’t wrong in anyway. Then she said, “I don’t think my mom would like that though.” I simply told her, “That doesn’t matter. All that matters is that your happy.” My husband then interjects, “And that goes for everything in life, what you want to do for a job, where you want to go to college, just anything.” I then added, “Even if it’s something dad and I don’t like. So long as you grow up to be a good person and your happy, that is all we want for you.” My husband then said, “Even if you wanted to be religious..” She cuts him off before he can even finish and says “I’m not gonna do that!” With this odd look on her face.This conversation continued but I’ll stop it there..
The ideas my 8 YEAR OLD has that whoever she loves is fine and that she is smarter then religion. Most proud mommy moment EVER? I think so.
I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.
- An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)
^YUP (via saschaeatsteeth)
**THIS
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