Now that I’ve tried like a normal therapist, this is kind of the difference:
Normal therapist: So why do you think you are scared of the hospital?
OCD therapist: Okay come with me we gonna go inside the hospital, lick the floor, and watch someone get a blood transfusion
The style of a decade doesn't actually go from 0 to 0. Most styles and looks we deem related to a decade often start and end midway through a decade. 80s glam looks started in the 70s. Mod fashion of the 60s first appeared in the late 50s.
Excellent example lol. Another song I've always thought of as an 80s-90s bridge was What I Am by New Bohemians. It was released late 1988 but you could already see that 90s aesthetic creeping in. Edie Brickell would go on to marry Paul Simon.
I used to think this was just a gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite painting. Then I learned what the woman is doing, and now it might be the loneliest thing I have ever looked at...
The woman is Mariana, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. She was engaged to be married, until her dowry was lost in a shipwreck and her fiancé abandoned her. Now she lives alone in a house on the edge of nowhere, still in love with the man who left her, waiting for him to come back.
He never will.
The painter was John Everett Millais, who took the subject from a poem by Tennyson and hung the picture at the Royal Academy in 1851 with the poet's line beneath it:
"I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead."
Look at what Millais does with the room. Mariana has been bent over her embroidery for hours, and she rises to stretch her back, hands pressed to her spine, in a pose of pure weariness. Autumn leaves have blown across the floor and settled on her table, marking the seasons passing while she waits. Through the stained glass glows the Annunciation, the Virgin receiving the news that will fulfil her whole life, set directly above a woman whose own life is going nowhere at all.
That's the cruelty underneath all the beauty: this gorgeous room is a cage. Every lovely thing in it belongs to a woman who has been left to grow old at the window, waiting for a knock that is never going to come. The stained glass even carries a Latin motto: "In coelo quies," meaning "in heaven there is rest." The only escape she is promised is the one Tennyson named for her, when she said she would rather be dead.
When the Pre-Raphaelites were attacked from every side, John Ruskin, the most powerful critic in England, rose to defend them and singled out this painting: of all the work in the Royal Academy, he wrote, nothing could compare "for perfect truth, power, and finish" with "the white draperies on the table in Mr. Millais' Mariana."
If for only once in your life, no matter who you are and what music you think you like, attend on full orchestra and choir concert. And take someone you love. Look at them when the music grows. You will be changed. And so will they.
For two years in a row, high school athlete Lauren Matthew came in 2nd to a male in the WA State GIRLS 400m State Track Championship.
Here is the empty 2nd podium spot where she refused to stand the second year, and her holding a sign that says she is the real state champion.
You can stop injustices like these by voting YES on I-638 in November.
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unironically I do think a lot of the “male loneliness epidemic” comes from struggling with these sort of basic interactions that are the basis of all socialization and I thought this was a great little video for yall!
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