i love when women introduce me to ways i might be unintentionally reproducing patriarchal ideas linguistically. i never thought twice about calling beauty routines “maintenance” until someone unpacked what that word actually implies. ideology embeds itself in ordinary language.
A 10 year-old boy from Japan discovered that butterflies can remember their time as caterpillars.
Jo Nagai noticed his caterpillars still loved him after turning into butterflies, and the affection he had for them led to a genuine scientific discovery.
A guy told me one time "don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner"
a year before my dad died he married a woman from Mexico who spoke no english
when his cancer took over/the doctors said that he should enter end of life care, she & I were sitting in his room and she looks at me and goes “we nee to hab a combersation”
hardest I’ve ever laughed