Lu-A

There's really no point to everything. So while I'm here, I'ma try to love, learn, and live as much as I can before my candle goes out✌🏽

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

To justify their domination, colonizers created categories and moral hierarchies that distinguished between the pure and the impure, and the savages and the civilized, and turned cultural difference into natural, binary oppositions. -Richard Harvey Brown.

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

"I want to be able to open up without being resented." - laughing/crying in Aquarius lol

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

With the amount of weight on my shoulders from all aspects of life, I just realized today that I'm surprised I haven't had a panic attack yet. 🥲

[Washington Football @UW_Football]

2023 PAC-12 CHAMPIONS 🏆☔️

#USvsUS

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

@NgDiluAkmo This is so relatable😩

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

I'm tired.

[🫧 Vibephrodite 🫧 @melissajenna]

yesterday my 13 year old was being harsh and impatient with me, and to my own surprise i started crying. embarrassed and through tears I said “i don’t know why you’re being so harsh with me, but if you’ll tell me what’s going on i’d like to help.”

at first i felt embarrassed for being so affected by how she was treating me, and for crying in front of my children. but what happened was they were able to witness me feeling my feelings before i was able to process them, and this was the foundation of a really lovely conversation and moment of deep connection.

later my 7 year old said “i’ve seen you cry from happiness or laughing a lot, but i didn’t know that you cried when you’re sad too” and oof. in wanting to provide them with a sense of stability and security i realize that i’ve processed most difficulties privately, and that’s not helping them at all.

my family of origin was chaotic and unsafe, and i think i swung to the opposite extreme of totally sanitizing my difficult feelings before communicating them with my family. i’m so grateful for this incremental awareness that will help me be more deeply connected to my children. :)

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

I miss myself. I miss my free mental head space. I miss my time.

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

Idk why people been feeling up to being disrespectful. But at this point, my boundaries are hella up.

I disrespectfully decline. Be gone.

[Masoud @linguistMasoud]

I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.

Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

[Lu-A @dkikuo]

Lord, grant me the strength of mind and spirit to get through the rest of the year with my sanity and peace of mind in tact. 🙏🏽

[AJ+ @ajplus]

The Greek coastguard claimed it didn’t intervene when a boat carrying asylum seekers and refugees capsized last week because those on board refused help, leaving as many as 750 people to drown.

Activists say Greece delayed aid as those on board pleaded for help for 15+ hours.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

If you grew up in a home with constant screaming or yelling, your body remembers. You might startle easily. Or feel like sobbing when someone yells.

How To Heal:

[Katlyn Skye @katlynskye24]

On Saturday, June 17, I was on a Lyft ride in Washington, D.C. that made me fear for my safety.

My driver missed numerous turns, prolonging my ride. In the midst of D.C. traffic, he almost hits a car and slams on his breaks, stopping about a foot from the car in front of him-

[snoah @snoah313]

You Never Had someone talk to you about tea ???

If you ask someone for tea, and they say no, don’t make them tea.

If someone asks you for tea, you can give them tea.

If someone asks you for tea, and then says they don’t want it anymore after you make it, you can’t force them to drink the tea. Yes, it’s annoying boiling the water, making the tea, and bringing it to them, only for them to say no, but they are not under any obligation to drink the tea.

🚨🚨this next one answers your question…

If someone said yes to tea at your house last Saturday, that doesn’t mean they want to drink your tea or have you make them tea all the time, they don’t want you to come around them unexpectedly making them drink tea, telling them “but you wanted tea last night?” or “you wanted tea last week?”

If YOU🫵 can understand how completely ludicrous it is to force people to have tea when they don’t want tea, and you are able to understand when people don’t want tea, then how hard is it to understand when it comes to sex?

[emily freeman @editingemily]

36. Weaponizing sophistication makes you look small. Using big words to make others feel stupid makes you an asshole.

37. You are magnificent. And utterly unique. Step into your power. The power that lives deep inside your soul.

Release your fear and go!

[emily freeman @editingemily]

5. Fucking go for it. Whatever it is. Just try. Maybe you make it. Maybe you don’t. The result isn’t the point.

Your journey, your growth, is the important bit. Don’t let anyone convince you shouldn’t try. Their fear is theirs, it’s not yours to carry.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Ajike Owens’ children were playing in a field near an apartment complex when a white woman yelled racial slurs at them and said to get off her land.

The children left behind an iPad which she stole. When one of the children came back to retrieve it she threw it at him and hit him with it.

Owens knocked on the woman’s door and without even opening it she shot through the door, killing Ms. Owens.

[Washington Softball @UWSoftball]

RYLEE HOLTORF GIVES THE HUSKIES THE LEAD! 💥

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