To Steal A Book Is An Elegant Offense

I've learned to bond with #myopenwound

my mom taught me the therapeutic power of cleaning. open all the windows. throw out the old. wipe down the entire house. burn some incense. roast some coffee. then rest. that way the tears from last night don’t feel as heavy. 

She just wanted you to clean the house

No it’s actually been studied and proven that for people with anxiety and depression that it’s really good for us it gives us a sense of control, setting, and being well grounded. It allows to make a new place out of the old and is really relaxing

It is such a catch-22, that cleaning when you are depressed (and likely less able to gather the executive functioning to do so) also alleviates it. After having a good clean, I always feel more in control and less stressed. It’s the getting started that is the hardest part. The good news is, even a tiny bit of cleaning has a positive effect, so start with what you can manage.

Even if you just clean up the immediate area around you, even if you clean a little at a time or spaced out over days, you’ll feel lighter.

My therapy professor always gets his patients to just wipe the bathroom mirror when they’re feeling that way. Just the mirror, nothing more. But then by the time his patients are done with the mirror, most of them report “well, I was already in the bathroom, so I did the sink and tub too.” And before they know it, they’ve cleaned an entire bathroom.

This stuff saved my ass back when I had depression. Vacuuming the room, spraying some febreze shit and wiping some countertops works wonders.

It's also fun to have conversations with "people with too much money or desiring money cause so many problems, so we could make the world better by eliminating money" guys and you start asking basic questions about how product and service creation and distribution would work in their system and they quickly end up reinventing money but calling it something different.

In the Wayfarer Series, the human refugee space stations don't have money (they can do this because they're relatively small and socially organised and basic essentials are provided to everyone for free, so it's not really a big deal if a barter fails or is inconveniently labyrinthine) and that system's started failing in later generations because they've become exposed to societies that do use money. The instant somebody who uses money shows up with exciting things to trade, money itself becomes a valuable barter good (you can trade it with those foreigners for cool stuff). And once you've got something convenient to carry and store (physically or digitally) that only has value in barter, and everyone knows of its value in barter (how much cool shit the foreigners will give you for the coin), the local unofficial adoption of the coin is pretty much inevitable even if you somehow haven't adopted some other stable item as a local barter currency in the meantime.

I know we've moved far past this point, but my historian ass needs to emphasize that so so many people got killed over cows. When the most valuable thing you own is an animal that can walk off, shockingly enough there's a lot of incentive to sneak in and convince your neighbor's cow to leave with you and similar incentive to violently prevent it.

what is it they put in the hardware store to make it smell so good

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

Incredible faces OP, love how loose the lines are and the expressions/profiles are brilliant