samaldencomics:

Sam Alden, Hawaii 1997

(via neo-rama)

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
— Charles Kingsley

And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm - whether it’s something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being sad in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness.

You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

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(via cutenesscorrupted)

aakashnihalani:

“Island II” by Aakash Nihalani
(photographed by Noah Kalina)

Aakash Nihalani, ISLANDS, opens April 26th at Signal Gallery

elfstaranymore:

Listen up, Tumblr. There are some cold hard facts about being poor that you need to know before you try to talk to me or my family or any other poor person about anything involving money, food, jobs, housing or healthcare.

• Being poor is expensive as fuck. Living…

alexandersattler:

dashbeardconfessional:

THIS

these dudes go to my school and i am proud of that fact.

(Source: dancemommamaniac, via wolfintheforest)

thereal1990s:

Johnny and Winona

(Source: notdionne)