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so we can all like and reblog your wonderful creations and encourage one another to keep up the great writing! :) Message me if you have any questions and I will do my best to help you! Happy writing, journalers of Tumblr! ~JJ

After teaching junior high art classes for 35 years, Alma Thomas started her fine art career at the age of 68. Her popularity grew over the years and when President Obama was in the White House he chose an Alma Thomas painting, making her the first African-American woman to have her artwork featured there. Get the book on @amazon or @ammobooks link also in profile. . . #womenshistorymonth #almathomas #artist #gouache #midcenturymodern #women #ammobooks #girlpower #ellensurrey

Every 40 seconds someone dies by an act of suicide. It’s good to remember this as a reminder to be grateful for the people we have in our lives and to see how far we’ve come. Every person is valuable and no life means nothing. It may seem like you’re not going anywhere in the future, but the future is never set so anything can happen. Please, stay alive, to someone you are everything. You are loved, you are needed, you are desired, you are important.

- Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

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Nourish your body Drink a lot of water Love your roots Be kind to yourself

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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Surrounding yourself with positive, inspiring social media does NOT mean avoiding things that might evoke negative emotions (i.e., upsetting but important news stories) or people whose beliefs differ from yours. One of the worst things any of us could do at a time like this would be to avoid people who are different from us. In fact, I encourage you to find some accounts and websites that don’t hold your views and visit them periodically to open your mind to a new perspective. There’s a big difference between things that add value – such as news, even if it’s not positive news, or people who share opposing views, but who do so in a kind, thoughtful way – and things that make you feel terrible without providing useful information. http://ift.tt/2kjvrYI

Andrea Dworkin, Our blood: prophecies and discourses on sexual politics (1976)

Go where you feel alive

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