2,5 months ago I learnt that I have been given a precious gift. It is in me, growing day by day. The moment I learnt it, I felt fear, happiness, incredibility. Then, I started searching websites, r…

I believe shoving children into the culturally created gender binary can be crippling and try to do gender neutral parenting instead. So when someone gives my 1 year old son a toy hammer and tells him it’s time he toughens up or insults a toy vacuum as girly, we have issues. Here are a few methods I've developed to help alleviate the stress that our gendered society can pose on a family.

The storm surrounds me, and it amazes me how the rest of the world continues to spin. I've felt it's presence for a while now; yet there I stood defiant, strong, watching as the walls steadily caved in upon me. For some reason I believed it would be easier this time. It`s day two, the fear comes and I succumb. Panic and terror crush me, My ears drum with the sound of the rain pelting against my windscreen, the earth wearing the tears I couldn't allow. Water drowns the road in front of me, tearing away the bottom of my car. I am left on the side of the road, tears matching those of the sky. For the first time in seven years I’m finally alone. My broken car leads me home once more, breathless, and desperate. I stare motionless into my husband’s face, the terror in his eyes, The desperation from his lips, the same lips I've kissed a thousand times, and here they are, begging me to come home. I'm disoriented, so tired. His whispers lack conviction, they promise that everything is going to be ok, that in twenty years we will look back in disgust at how we almost threw this away. He asks me what's holding me back, why I can`t forgive. The thought flutters its way through thousands; "there's nothing left to push me forward, every dream and hope, every promise, slipped away silently like the smoke of a thousand candles."

I’ve owned this alocasia for a little less than two months and it’s lost 2 leaves since getting it (which i read online should be expected), this third and only leaf seems to be sticking around but is this thing from the bottom of the stalk where a new leaf grows out of? (for reference this was sold to me as an alocasia sinuata)by icespice-grahh

Unique, handmade and digitalized prints and cards on beautiful (off-white) Italian (Fabriano) paper. These prints are inspired by a testimony of "R" in Kabul in her testimony to the Daily, The Fall of Afghanistan (2021). "I wish I could do magic. I wish I could do something that this country would grow wings to just fly away from all this bloodshed and just save het children. I don't know . Or I should - if I could grow or expand my arms to just hold this country and its people and just protect them." € 5 euros will go to charity (https://doneer.rodekruis.nl/afghanistan) Available in different sizes, for different rooms and occasions. Signature on the back.

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