The Wild Ones

✿ land bridge in the forest

onwardtorakichi:
ahumancuntipede:
todaysbird:
spacecaptainglow:
todaysbird:
don’t let birding become a wealthy people thing. you don’t need to complete a list of 500+ birds, you don’t need to travel around the world, you don’t need to have seen a species only seen by a handful of people in the wild. it’s OK to just watch the birds in your area, with or without binoculars; gatekeeping birdwatching is ridiculous and i hate to see it
today i watched some roadrunners at the game store :)
you are winning birding 👍
a cockatoo i saw in a tree
Literally some of the best birding I’ve ever done is just hanging out looking at geese, goslings and sandpipers behind a Costco, next to some busy roads. It was so much fun because they were an oasis away from the crowded store and the boring errands I was running. My partner was with me, so I got to share the joy of seeing these cool animals with him, which is even better!
The joy of birding is that birds are everywhere! You can enjoy them anywhere you happen to be and it doesn’t have to cost you anything! They’re just little guys who pop up in your life and all it takes to “bird” is looking at them and appreciating that they’re there. :)
the joy of birding is to take joy in what’s always been there that you didn’t notice before. it’s about taking pleasure in seeing something that’s there everyday. to get happiness from something so small as the local birds is very powerful to me :) <3

poetrylesbian:

obviously dietary requirements aren’t a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she’s up to today and she said extremely seriously “ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia”

louisegluckpdf:

me when one of my girlmutuals posts about how they got a little coffee beverage or took a nice walk or started a book they’ve been meaning to read for a while or otherwise found meaning and joy in simple pleasures

can-i-make-image-descriptions:

thememedaddy:
[Image ID: Tweet from Jack Califano (@/ jackCalifano) on 27 Apr 2022 reading: I don’t want 8K TVs and self driving cars. I want a 4 day work week and rent control. /End ID]

oak23:

oak23:
Marie Kondo really isnt fucking around
If anyone is curious what she says directly after this quote:
When one or the other of these thought patterns makes it hard to throw things away, we can’t see what we really need now, at this moment. We aren’t sure what would satisfy us or what we are looking for. As a result, we increase the number of unnecessary possessions, burying ourselves both physically and mentally in superfluous things.
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don’t need by confronting each of your possessions properly. The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
Many times when confronting my past during the tidying process I have been so ashamed. My collection of scented erasers from primary school, the animation-related goods that I collected in junior high school, clothes I bought in high school when I was trying to act grown up but which didn’t suit me at all, handbags I bought even though I didn’t need them just because I liked the look of them in the shop.
The things we own are real. They exist here and now as a result of choices made in the past by no one other than ourselves. It is wrong to ignore them or to discard them indiscriminately as if denying the choices we made. This is why I am against both letting things pile up and dumping things without proper consideration. It is only when we face the things we own one by one and experience the emotions they evoke that we can truly appreciate our relationship with them.
There are three approaches we can take towards our possessions. Face them now, face them sometime, or avoid them until the day we die. The choice is ours. But I personally believe it is far better to face them now. If we acknowledge our attachment to the past and our fears for the future by honestly looking at our possessions, we will be able to see what is really important to us.
This process in turn helps us to identify our values and reduces doubt and confusion when making life decisions. If we can have confidence in our decisions and launch enthusiastically into action without any doubts holding us back, we will be able to achieve much more. In other words, the sooner we confront our possessions the better. If you are going to put your house in order, do it now.