The Definition of Restless

“You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.” — Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly

this tumblr text post:

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver

From an interview with Kazu Makino:

Instructions On Not Giving Up, Ada Limon:

And this poster by Yumi Sakugawa

“You have to believe, in your heart, that even if you don’t work hard and exercise and think positive thoughts and make new friends and march triumphantly into the future, you are still enough. You will always have bad days. Being broken doesn’t make you a loser. You can crumble, and you will still be enough. Make that your religion moving forward. You are here to feel this moment. You are not here to become someone better. You are not here to impress or compete. You are not here to prove yourself. You are here to savor this life. Let down your guard. You are already enough. Believe it.” — Heather Havrilesky

“The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” -Agnès Varda

lyrics from the song Grow by The Oh Hellos:

“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.” — Mary Oliver

From Antonia and Desmond: 

We’ve been looking to buy a cabin for years, but never found one that felt right: close-ish to Cape Town (our home base), super private and located in nature, etc. In early 2017 we found and bought this almost three hectare property close to the beautiful Bain’s Kloof Pass in the Western Cape of South Africa. The pass (25 kilometers) was built in 1849, it was seen as the gateway between Cape Town and the north. We decided to build our tiny dream cabin: thirty square meters of living space (plus a loft bedroom of twelve square meters) and a sixty square meter deck. Our wooden structure cabin is located high on a mountain slope in a nature reserve. It can only be reached by foot or a 4x4 vehicle. We just finished the cabin in time for the national Corona-lockdown we are experiencing in South Africa (extended until 30 April 2020). The best part of this cabin is that it is so isolated, set in Fynbos (natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa) and yet only 1.5 hours drive from Cape Town. Here you can find rock paintings, spot Klipspringers (a small buck with Mountain goat type claws), baboons, Cape Cobras, Dassies, Leopard’s, and many birds, to mention a few. Also, a wide range of flora endemic to this area can be found. In the valley we have a lovely river spot for refreshing swims. 

DO NOT KICK A GOOSE. Geese are very important for nature as they maintain insect populations and they help pick weeds that try to kill useful plants! Geese are good, they’re just grumpy. Never kick one because you could fatally injure them. They do not have the bone structure to survive a strong kick.

I had to deal with this a lot because my family bred geese. Geese are not happy about their eggs being taken so after you take one, they remember for their whole lives. We had a farm, we did what we had to do in order to survive. We loved our geese and our geese loved us, just not when we were taking their babies.

Do not kill Geese just because they’re mean. Please

Yes you could crawl towards them, but that only works if it’s one goose. If it’s more than one attacking you, you can yeet them as they get close.

This post was about white geese, which is what we bred, but you can do this for Canadian geese too! Because attacking a Canadian goose can get you a fine and even jail time, this is a much nicer approach to being attacked by a goose.

Also for some reason a lot of replies are saying this can break a goose’s neck???? It can’t??? Don’t spread lies. Geese are built to be picked up by the neck and they have tons of muscles in their necks to support being thrown. This is how they fight each other. It doesn’t hurt them. Just stuns them.