The painting depicts an exhausted German soldier returning from war, resting his weary head in the lap of a young woman. She is portrayed as young, beautiful, and pure, symbolizing the personification of Germany.
Or are you simply in the process of resting and recovering from all that you have been through? Are you truly procrastinating? Or are you simply prioritizing what your soul finds more valuable, enriching and uplifting? Are you truly sad? Or are you simply purging and releasing your […]
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ (L. P Hartley: The Go-Between) A generation that walked to school every day and we walked back home just as easily. We were a generation that did our homework by ourselves, eager to finish and rush outside […]
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
MAKE READING COMPASSIONATE AGAIN My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If I repeat the same thing a thousand times when we talk, don’t interrupt to say: […]
The men who show up without being asked, who stay up even when they’re exhausted. The men who have fierce respect for their mothers, and wouldn’t be caught dead having her do their laundry – or paying their bills. This is for the men who know that choosing […]
We’ve become so isolated and it’s hard to know how to get back. It’s so hard to know how to even begin to build the kind of relationships our hearts need.
Marriage Laid Bare: There once was a man and a woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They talked about everything. They kept no secrets from each other… except that the old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she […]
Often, this involved a level of multitasking that required patience, organization, and dedication. The mother in this photograph represents the resilience and adaptability of countless women during that period.
According to the association, this is every third family in the country, which is 200% more than in 2008, that is, by 2 million families. At the same time, the number of community gardens has increased by 22% since 2021, including about 29,000 community gardens in the 100 largest US cities.
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