This amazing traditional performance showing the Buddha of Compassion, Kwan Yin, in her thousand arm form. Depicting this Buddha as having a thousand arms is meant to demonstrate a vast ability to help the suffering world.
i just heard my mum say ‘you are very naughty’ and then a meow and then another softer ‘okay but next time there will be consequences’ and then another meow and then a ‘you’re right probably not’
Me *leaves a pile of assorted jorts in the woods*: for the werewolves
Flying high is terrifying, no one told me how lonely it is up here. People say there’s a splendor in that bright light, but my growing shadow swallows me and becomes a monster. I rise, rise, I hate it. I pray, pray, hoping to be okay. Please don’t let me shine, don’t let me down, don’t let me fly. | MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ’SUGA Interlude’ : Shadow (2020)
y’all should reblog and put in the tags what your first concert and your last concert were, and what your next concert will be if you know
Things I have learned by joining the local Methodist Church’s coffee & knitting circle (where I am the only person under 60 years old):
- How to double knit very, very quickly
- Mrs. Jonson on the third pew won’t mind her own business, bless her heart. And she buys her pies pre-made for all the church functions.
- Ways that women cheated the system in 1950s Texas to get into college and start careers. Including a memorable “He told me I wouldn’t last a week, but then 6 years later, I had to let him go because his production was way down.” *drinks sip of coffee*
- We Might Be Conservative But Gosh Darn That Trump Bless His Heart He Doesn’t Know Anything About God Or Texas
- And On That Note, God And Texas Are The Only Good Things Left In The World. Erin Write That Down.
- How to rescue a dropped stitch and make it look like it never happened
- Public schools and inclusive, desegregated education will single-handedly save the world
- Sharing recipes is a sacred bonding and community-building tradition that rivals the greatest political negotiations and land deals in history
- “It’s better that you prefer girls honey, the Boyfriend Curse doesn’t apply to your girlfriend and a lovin’ god’ll keep on a-lovin. You better make that girl a sweater.’”
- (Boyfriend Curse = knit a sweater for a boy and he’ll leave you when you finish it)
- Mrs. Barbara’s husband cheated in ‘76, resulting in a divorce. She thought it was the end of the world because her youth had already passed, but now she’s an engineer and married to a kind, good man who she met when she went back to college in ‘79.
- “The only things you can trust in are God, your good sense, and the wisdom of those older women you grew up admiring. The rest is crap.”
@elodieunderglass Important Knitting Truths
“It is quite a heartless world these days. We just wanted you to smile, even for a short moment.”
— Dahyun
Hong Kong on some next level shit, no-selling tear gas canisters.
Teamwork makes the dream work babes!!
Nothing says friendship like destroying a communist police state together
If anyone is wondering what’s going on in Hong Kong right now, people are protesting a bill that would allow for extradition of fugitive offenders. The issue people have with the proposed amendment is that it would open up the citizens of Hong Kong–which is independent–to falling under mainland Chinese law.
The bill potentially places in high risk anyone with openly critical views about the governing and policies in mainland China. Given that there have already been many abductions from Hong Kong–particularly of bookstore owners selling materials of a critical nature–this legislation would only enable the Chinese government in further silencing political dissent.
Bear in mind that mainland China is where Winnie the Pooh continues to be banned from mention on all social media because people were making humorous comparisons between Pooh and Xi Jinping–the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (aka the current President of China).
America is far from perfect, but at least we have the freedom to publicly ridicule the bags of raw sewage running this shitshow without fear of either censorship, or legislation that would allow the government to arrest us for it.
