Reblog if you’ve formed a meaningful relationship with someone you met online.

midengineoffroad:

We met online 6 years ago

Not sure what is meant by ‘meaningful’…. but I have very meaningful relationships with about 4 or 5 people that I only know on line.  We share things on and off line… but these are not sexual relationships…but could be potentially.  I feel that on line is a great way to get to know someone…over a longish period.  True colors show.. and especially here on Tumblr. 

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The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
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today I sold one of my chest of drawers.  People have asked about the other stuff..but no go so far.  I may need the back up of Goodwill or someplace else.

The newly released edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) may be heralded as the “bible of psychiatry”, but it is not an objective scientific document outlining the truth about madness as its proponents claim. Rather, it’s a manual that has been used to propagate the misdiagnosis and maltreatment of vulnerable women.

Women are significantly more likely than men to be diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses. This includes depression, anxiety, eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, somatoform disorder, sleep disorders and dissociative identity or depersonalisation disorder.

Those who experience mood change once a month can be diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

Women are also significantly more likely than men to be prescribed psychotropic medication known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as Prozac, given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), or hospitalised for psychiatric illness.

But this doesn’t mean that women are more mad than men. They are simply more likely to be labelled as such when they express discontent or distress with everyday life. Or when they fail to live up to the unrealistic ideals of the perfect wife and mother.

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willbraham asked: Well right now she's with her father in Boston & then in about a month she's going to go down to Napa & work at the winery pouring her father's wine, he's an ex baseball player with his own brand. I'm not sure which vineyard she's working at, yet.

Turns out Alex will still be working there though the injury she just got is fairly serious.  That’s cool her Dad has his own wine. 

awkwardsituationist:

acid attacks in pakistanhere is how you can help.

i was finally able to track down the photographer. her name is izabella demavlys

A barbaric practice reinforced by a religion that doesn’t honor women but considers them chattle.  Nothing is noted about what happened to the men who did this… jail? torture? or high five? 

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Thoughts and truths

1.  When a tornado strikes, there is no one to blame.  It is simply so sad.  I keep thinking of how it must feel to drop your kid off at school and never see him or her alive again.

2.  We dropped of my granddaughter in Napa.  She starts her internship at a fancy winery.  Hard work but great background and probably connections.

3.  My niece is now divorced.  It ended well, as I suspected it would at some point.  I am happy for them both.  It’s always sad to end a relationship…no matter what reason… but I think this is a good thing and that both will be happy and get along well too.

4.  I gave my son my copy of the Patti Smith book along with my collage of his high school graduation.  He’s 50 now.

5.  My husband’s birthday was yesterday.  I did nothing..not a cake, not a birthday song.. nothing.  I’m such a loser!

merfology:

bryanthephotogeek:

Here you go Will.

cue crying

oh my… tears…..

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drawing-bored:

womaninterrupted:

ragbag:

discardingimages:

flying penis monster 

Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Italy 1340-1345.

Lyon, BM, Ms 5128, fol. 100r

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This is of interest to people.

falcor?

I am a strong believer in past lives and actually recalled being a scribe and doing drawings like this…. and other pornography within the books I illustrated.  I’ve never seen one until today… suddenly I am vindicated for my memories which seemed so weird.   But then again, we are talking about young Catholic priests…sooooo I could have guessed.

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