"I Need Days When I Can Be Alone, To Think, To Daydream."

Pomegranate Trees Among the Ruins  Ephesus, Turkey.  Photo by Jason Noble, October 2014.

no YOU live in a society i live in this frame of pride and prejudice

i'm so proud of everyone on my dash whether you’re going to college, applying for a job, becoming more confident with yourself, getting rid of some negativity in your life, writing a story, or simply getting out of bed in the morning and making yourself a cup of coffee. i’m so proud of everyone’s achievements, big or small. you’re all so special. i’m glad that i get glimpses into your lives because it makes me happy to see you all prosper <33

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

— John Steinbeck; “East of Eden” (via theunquotables)

you’re going to love again, find a job again, create art again, do what you love again, feel powerful again. you’re going to be back on track. i don’t know when, but you are going to feel like yourself again, eventually. this isn’t the end. hang in there.

what people think it means to be a scientist: “i have all the answers!”

what it actually means to be a scientist: “this is maybe the answer but i can’t say anything for sure because we don’t really know all that much, and even though statistics might be useful in determining our confidence in the significance of results, they often don’t capture the nuance of the actual data, which in turn doesn’t capture the nuance of real life, because the double-edged sword of controlled experiments is that these parameters don’t actually exist anywhere in nature, and they’re only implemented to manage the complexities of the world and to fit them into a model that we can actually test!! and all results are generalizations, when in fact, each case is unique and often unmeasurable. and most things we measure can’t be measured, so we have to fall back on proxies, which might not tell the whole story!! i don’t know anything!!! i mean, i can say this one specific thing with statistical confidence, but not with any real confidence??? i’m sorry???? also where’s the free coffee at this conference????”

are u a "I can only have 4 tabs open or I will spontaneously combust" person or a "I have 83 tabs open and at least 12 of them are exactly the same" person

03.02.22// working on the hamsun paper & polishing my presentation for tomorrow :))!

listening to: taeyeon, can’t control myself

They cut down my favourite tree, the tree of my childhood. Lichen grew on its trunk and squirrels climbed its branches. And they ask girls why we’re angry, so full of rage, dormant volcanoes. The tree was my childhood and its branches my god, the tree was my childhood and its roots my tether, its leaves my dreams. The tree was my childhood and they cut it down. They ask me why I’m angry and I ask them to regrow my tree, give me back my girlhood.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned