Pale Green Things

“the recording is of a blackbird in my garden in the north of scotland. the idea of the piece is that it's a letter home from a migrated bird, telling the family of its new life and making the connection between the migrant and the homeland.” - jennifer cantwell

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

is it a natural and innate part of humanity or is it some shit they made up in europe

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

It's not a fun part of the movie when a character the kid likes dies, but they can experience loss without losing someone they actually know that way, and learn how to deal with grief in the future from how the protagonist is taught to deal with it. The real deal will still be way worse, but a 7 year old who's allowed to know what death IS is likely to grow into a 15 year old who can deal with their feelings when it happens.

By the way, midterms are coming up, and I guarantee you that the blogs promoting this shit (on both sides) are gonna start getting real loud about who you shouldn't bother voting for and which supposedly decent politicians are secretly not good enough. In fact I'll bet that if you check, both sides will be condemning the same people.

Until death, all defeat is psychological.