You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
Massively. Big distance makes good habits harder. You can get a job closer to work and just find yourself losing weight. All of a sudden gym is possible. All of a sudden you’re not too tired to cook. Your social life picks up cos you can accommodate after work drinks with friends. You can be a whole different person simply by working closer to home.
When you’re finally in his arms, listening to his heartbeat, breathing in his scent, and suddenly your mind goes quiet everything feels calm, safe, and at peace.
A family of black farmers, Shelton Muhammad and his sons Yusuf and Talib are raising $200K to teach Black men agribusiness and cut crime in their Virginia town.
Two Black women celebrate after flying together as pilot and co-pilot on the same flight. Moments like this are extremely rare in aviation, and the pair made sure to celebrate! We love to see it.🖤
🚨 THIS YOUNG MAN IS A HERO.
Fourteen-year-old Acie Holland III was riding home from school, looking at his phone, when something felt wrong.
The bus had passed his stop.
Then it began accelerating.
Acie looked toward the front and saw the driver unconscious over the steering wheel. The moving bus, carrying 14 students, was drifting across the centerline toward oncoming traffic.
Acie did not scream.
He did not freeze.
He did not wait for an adult to save them.
This eighth grader ran forward, seized the steering wheel, guided the bus back into its lane, moved the driver’s foot from the accelerator and pressed the brake until that enormous bus came safely to the curb.
He could not find the parking brake, so he turned the wheels hard toward the curb to prevent the bus from rolling away.
That is presence of mind under pressure.
Then Acie checked on the younger students, told them to contact their parents, made certain 911 had been called and went to get his grandmother, Phyllis Holland, who is a nurse.
The driver regained consciousness and received medical care. Every student made it home safely.
Acie had worked on cars with his father and enjoyed go-karting, but nothing could have completely prepared a 14-year-old boy to take control of a moving school bus.
Something had already been built inside him: courage, mechanical understanding, responsibility and the instinct to protect others.
His classmates gave him a new name:
“AC-Hero.”
That name fits.
While the world spends enormous energy telling us what is wrong with young men, Acie Holland III reminded us what can be right with them.
Fourteen students reached home because one young man recognized the danger, stepped forward and acted.
May God continue to strengthen this remarkable young man.
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Teach your kids about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana.
She turned 71 this year. She's only 71.
this woman on TikTok said if we wanna see more Black American men in movies instead of Black European men all the time we gotta stop calling little Black boys weird for wanting to be in theater/dance instead of football and basketball OH SHIT-
I wanna go on an ALL DAY date. 😩 Like breakfast, an activity, lunch, another lil’ adventure, dinner…then sitting in the car talking because neither one of us ready to go home. 🥹🤎