trying my best

“At some point you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.”

13-year-old Virgil Smith rescued 17 of his neighbors during Hurricane Harvey.

When flood waters poured into his apartment complex in Dickinson, he and his mom, Lisa Wallace, took shelter at a stranger’s second floor apartment.

Virgil says he got a call from his friend in another building.

“He was like, VJ, can you come help us because you know that we can’t swim,” says Smith.

🌹for the ones that have to put up with insults on every selfie they post

🌹and for the ones who won’t post any at all because of it

Very moving. Such a sad story. Sometimes in life, it’s not how long or well you live, but how many lives you touch, her story’s touched me. This video broke me. I can’t help but blame her death on anti-blackness, the disregard for POC lives, our basic right to safe housing.

DAILY FIND: Sometimes the Internet is a crappy place full of crap. But today I’m reminded that it’s an amazing trove of free and good information from reliable sources: The University of Illinois Extension has created a searchable index of every stain known to man and stain removal solutions for each. The tool will even tell you what your window of stain-treatment time is to achieve optimal results.

Super-realistic!