long drives && brown eyes

#Quote #FredRogers #MrRogers #ImportantThingsToRemember

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:28:54 -0400

#Quote #FredRogers #MrRogers #ImportantThingsToRemember

I seriously appreciate my boyfriend so much. It’s refreshing to have someone that pays...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:27:40 -0400

I seriously appreciate my boyfriend so much. It’s refreshing to have someone that pays attention to the things I like. Even though he doesn’t like the same things as me he still goes out of his way to take me to do things that he knows I will enjoy. Especially when it comes to art. I’m always dragging him along and introducing him to things he would never do if he hadn’t met me.

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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:42:11 -0400

Upside down #bostonterrier

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:10:01 -0400

Upside down #bostonterrier

kushandwizdom: Click here for more personal quotes

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:59:29 -0400

kushandwizdom:

Click here for more personal quotes

"Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:56:29 -0400

“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

- Dream Hampton (via loveyourchaos)

I wish i had read this a long time ago.. There are some people who are determined to see you the way they want to no matter what you do to prove otherwise. I’ve waisted a lot of time trying to prove myself to someone that wasn’t worth the energy. As long as you know who you are, you have no reason to prove it to those that aren’t willing to believe it.

Becoming selfless

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:28:26 -0400

I am trying to make a better effort at strengthening my relationships with my family and loved ones. It is important to not be negative and hold onto things. I too often let things that happen affect my mood for the entire day and it isn’t healthy. Over the years i have become much more sensitive and i want to work on that. I have been through a lot in my life and i have come a long way, and i am proud of myself for being as strong as i have through all of it. I know that there is always room for improvement and just because people may be negative around me it doesn’t mean that i need to take that negativity and carry it around. I am working on clearing my mind and focusing on being more positive. My social work professor is always talking about how if we want certain people to be a part of our support system then we need to be a support system for them. We can’t expect people to fill our needs without also filling theirs. Hearing this was a form of enlightenment for me. We hear all of the time to do to others as you would want done to you, but when hearing it in that context it really hit home for me. As a child you depend on people to help you build a support system, whether it be blood family or other caregivers, but as you grow and get older you need to build that for yourself. Your family isn’t always going to give you the support you may want or need. For a long time i expected people to be there for me at a time when they actually needed me to be there for them. Although it is important to take care of yourself, sometimes you need to reach out to other people and be there for them before they can be of support to you. You need to first be selfless. If after you have reached out and given support to someone, and they didn’t reciprocate, you can then make the decision to not be a form of support for them anymore. It is important though to realize that sometimes those people don’t have the ability to be that for you. I’ve learned that you can’t give up on people before you know that you have reached out and done your part. We live in a society that is based on individualism and doing things for ourselves and we have forgotten the importance of doing things for others. We are taught to be selfish and to only do things that will come back to benefit us in some way. As human beings we all need each other, whether we like to believe it or not. No person can survive alone without eventually becoming mentally unstable. My goals for myself are to be more patient, to make more of an effort to talk to my family and listen to the things they want to share without getting annoyed, to offer to help out more, to make a point to say thank you so that it is physically known that i am grateful, and to accept the things i cannot change.

Another from #scopenewyork

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:42:28 -0500

Another from #scopenewyork

wish I took more pics at #scopenewyork but this was pretty...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:42:18 -0500

wish I took more pics at #scopenewyork but this was pretty awesome

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Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:30:48 -0500

arthlete: Today is day 1

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:46:23 -0500

arthlete:

Today is day 1

arthlete: time to start feeling better about myself.

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:38:45 -0500

arthlete:

time to start feeling better about myself.

katiekatiekatiee: kindof-interesting: Photographer’s girlfriend...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:30:36 -0500

katiekatiekatiee:

kindof-interesting:

Photographer’s girlfriend leads him around the world

Even then, i will continue to tell you. so that in times of...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:28:41 -0500

Even then, i will continue to tell you. so that in times of doubt, you will always be reminded of how amazing you truly are.

artnet: SCOPE 2013 We’re very excited to be partnering with...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:56:38 -0500

artnet:

SCOPE 2013

We’re very excited to be partnering with SCOPE, which returns to New York City in 2013 with a distinguished landmark venue: Skylight at Moynihan Station. SCOPE is part of an elite group selected to host a series of highly curated events in New York City’s iconic former post office.

This year, the fair is featuring 55 international galleries alongside 20 Breeder Program galleries from four continents and 18 countries, representing the best and brightest contemporary work from emerging artists.

SCOPE New York opens to Press and VIP’s on Wednesday, March 6, with the First View benefit. The fair will run from March 7 to 10, 2013.

SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!

fotojournalismus: The Lost Dogs of Ciudad Juarez (via...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:01:18 -0500

fotojournalismus:

The Lost Dogs of Ciudad Juarez

(via Reuters’ Photographers Blog)

By Jose Luis Gonzalez

“As a photojournalist living and working in Ciudad Juarez I’m used to seeing dead people being picked up off the streets.

The last few years have been brutal, with violence and shoot-outs every day and dead people everywhere. But it is much calmer now and corpses lying in puddles of blood are not as common a sight as they used to be. Nevertheless, some weeks ago I drove through a neighborhood and saw a couple of men dressed in hooded, white coveralls picking up another kind of corpse: a dead dog. They threw it into a container pulled by a truck and when they took off I started to follow them.

They stopped every so often, picking up another dead dog from the streets and throwing it into the container. They were collecting a lot of dead animals and when I approached the truck, I could see that there was a whole pile of them.

Maybe we have become so used to seeing death around us that we have become desensitized to the enormous number of dogs that die daily in the city. Local authorities believe that up to 100,000 stray dogs roam the streets of Ciudad Juarez. Recently, local workers have been picking up the remains of between 40-60 every day, with 4,970 dead dogs retrieved in 2012, according to the city’s head of clean-up efforts. Authorities believe the dogs died of starvation, extreme temperatures, from being hit by vehicles, or simply expired next to their owners former homes.

I decided to follow the “levanta perros” (“dog picker-uppers”) as the municipal workers who collect dead dogs are commonly called. I went to one of the low-income neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city where hundreds of empty houses stand abandoned by some of the estimated 200,000 residents who fled the city at the height of drug-related violence in 2010 and 2011. I saw so many dogs with terrible signs of malnutrition wandering around or lying outside empty, vandalized homes. They seemed to be waiting in vain for their former masters to come back.

In every poor neighborhood I went to, I saw the same picture: dogs and more dogs. Some of them were living skeletons and there were a lot of dead animals whose remains were lying in the entrances of what could have been their former houses. Some dogs managed to survive on scraps of food that people gave them – people who probably don’t have enough to eat themselves.

One day, the “levanta perros” picked up 17 dead dogs within a matter of minutes. Some of the animals still had their collars on with their names engraved in them. I started thinking that each of these dogs had a story too. They might have lived with a family, with children who played with them, with people who fed, hugged and loved them. And then everything changed; no more food, no love, no home. Instead they just faced a struggle to survive, to escape angry people throwing stones, or to avoid being hit by cars only to end up at the municipal dump, surrounded by more dead dogs and garbage, with a bulldozer unceremoniously covering them with dirt.

Hundreds of stray dogs are picked up by the city’s anti-rabies unit and put into a shelter, but if nobody comes for them or takes them in for adoption, death awaits them anyway after 72 hours. There were around 40 dogs at the shelter when I went. They looked sad and lost.

When I saw how the dogs were being caught and thrown into the cages, it caused me pain. It’s a spiral: the violence caused by drugs causes more violence on all levels. People lose their loved ones, children are orphaned, jobs are lost, animals are hurt, homes are abandoned; it’s a story of destruction from beginning to end.

A few people have tried to help. They pick up the dogs and actively try to find homes for them, but they rely on donations for food and vets. I can only hope that my pictures are able to move some more hearts to help men’s best friend in its moment of distress.”

Photographs by Jose Luis Gonzalez, January 2013.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:23:00 -0500

"He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make..."

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:15:00 -0500

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”

- Bob Marley

mini rant

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:29:24 -0500

Apple douches are the reason the rest of us apple/ Mac owners get a reputation for being tools. Especially the stuck up tools that work at the apple store. you aren’t any better than anyone else, you fucktards.

"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed..."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:20:54 -0500

““Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.””

- Betsey Johnson (via sugarycookied)