The Earth, Further and Further.

Have you seen this yet? 

In 2 days I leave for Brazil, to paint boats for 2 weeks with my beautiful friends heading FlutuArte, a floating open-air gallery that can be seen from both land and sky, of murals on the rooftops of fishing boats in the Quadrado da Urca, a harbor framed by the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer and the Sugarloaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro. (Pictures to come, obviously!)

But, silly or not, I’m super sad about leaving my kitty. I love her and I’m going to miss her so much. I will especially miss the nightly spooning.

by super talented artist, (and also my neighbor,) Niko Guardia.

nikoguardia:

We nap.

permanent life schedule

Hey people! This is me, Cassie, and my roommate Jess (she’s on the left.) We recently entered a contest to win a free trip to Ireland to attend the exclusive music festival Bushmills Live, the first ever music festival staged in an Irish Whiskey distillery, featuring Snow Patrol! We REALLY want to win this, but we need help! 

PLEASE go to the Bushmills FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/BushmillsUSA and click the Bushmills Live 2012 contest page, click USA when it asks for the country and vote for Cassie and Jess! 

What’s in it for you? If we win, you can come along with us via an extensive photo blog of our escape to Ireland! So please, GO VOTE! 

A.MAZING.

(via loveandzombies)

The popular body-acceptance movement happening in America encourages women to accept their bodies as they are and not compare themselves to “impossible standards.” Adherents are known to empower themselves with such exclamations as, “I’m not gonna feel bad about myself for eating a cookie!” and such rhetorical questions as “Why feel guilty?” There’s a smug self-righteousness in these utterances, as the speaker feels confident that there is no conceivably valid response to the question. Well, I believe there is. 

The reason to feel guilty about eating empty calories and junk that is essentially tasty toxic waste is because it reflects a lack of self control to deny an immediate cheap reward and hold out for a much much better reward in the future. This is what Kate Moss meant when she said, “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” I would replace skinny with healthy, though. Feeling fit, well nourished and otherwise healthful, and truly in control of yourself, this is so much more empowering than a loud mouth and indulgent shamelessness. 

Indulging is a fun treat, but as a treat it should be left for holidays and barbecues and vacations. Not any excuse you can come up with, i.e. it’s raining, some guy was rude to you on the subway, it’s on sale, etc. Too-frequent indulgence makes a person subservient to desire at whim, a state of being that prohibits the individual from connecting deeply with herself. I listen to my body, it tells me what it needs and what it doesn’t. I no longer let my tongue tyrannically pimp out the rest of me. I feel connected to my body, and it’s a connection I value enough to commit to: I am committed to doing what is best for myself and therefore what is best for my body, which is eating well and exercising for every body.

Therefore, if you are not committed to doing what is best for yourself, then I believe that is something you certainly should feel guilt and shame about. 

Drew some eyes last night.

I know how to make a bed
While still lying in it, and
Slip out of an imaginary hole
As if I were squeezed out of a tube:
Tug, smooth—the bed is made.
And if resurrections are this easy,
Why then I believe in all of them:
Lazarus rising from his tomb,
Elijah at the vertical—
Though death, I think, has more than clever
Household hints in mind and wants
The bed made, once, and for good.

self-portrait with a necklace of shadows

me, last night

Michael Kiwanuka - “I’m Getting Ready”