Category Archives: Viva!

I Quit Eating Only Salad or Eating Only Cake — Because I am Worthy, Loved & Beautiful. | Rebelle Society

{This applies to women and to men – good thoughts}

I’ve got news for you: You weren’t put into this universe to fail. You were born to make mistakes and learn and grow and rise up despite loss and heartache. Our bodies are our vehicles in which we are able to accomplish this.

Our bodies do not fail us.

Through every disease, every sickness and every injury, we are taught what it means to be better, to be more, to be stronger. When we love our bodies for what they are, when we treat them with respect, when we are thankful beyond measure for all that they allow us to experience, we rise.

We are born to rise, to become, to unbecome, to screw up and to learn. Find a way of living and loving that allows you to do this, and go do it.

You are irreplaceably beautiful. Yes, you are.

 

via I Quit Eating Only Salad or Eating Only Cake — Because I am Worthy, Loved & Beautiful. | Rebelle Society.

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | My Father My Hero

For the daughter, her Dad is the first hero—

the man who never cheats her, the man who trusts her,

and gives everything without regret.

From the time I opened my eyes my Dad protected me

Even though having a girl was no less than a crime.

There is the gossip—

Your husband will marry another woman—

tears fell from my mother’s eyes

and she cried again when I arrived,

the fourth daughter.

But my father supported me,

fought to give me rights in this society

of men, where women are the second sex,

the forgotten other half.

When will my country count the other half?

The forgotten women, who are

more powerful than any creature,

more kind, more innocent.

I love my Dad for giving me this sense of self,

for sending me to the school he could barely afford

but worked all day to pay for, and to help make my future.

I will always be with you Dad, as you were beside me

protecting me from evil. I will always be with you.

When we are growing, we forget that you grow older too

May my lord keep you healthy, always.

Farahnaz R.

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | My Father My Hero.

Let There Be Peace – Donna Summer – YouTube

Let There Be Peace – Donna Summer – YouTube.

Let There Be Peace

Someone let communication out the door
Someone decided it’s worth fighting for
Why haven’t we learned by what we’ve done before?
Don’t you know history’s keeping score?
For every boy and every girl
Let there be love
All over the world
For everyone
Under the sun…
Let there be peace on earth
Let every voice be heard
Let there be peace on earth
Brother to brother
‘Til it’s felt around the world
There’s only one world in which we all must live
Heaven show us how to forgive
And on that marble wall which holds a million names
Generations of dreams gone down in flames
Isn’t, isn’t it a shame?
For every boy and every girl
Under the sun…
Let there be peace on earth
(Why don’t you try just a little harder?)
Let every voice be heard
(My brother)
Let there be peace on earth
(Oh, if we could just get it together)
‘Til it’s felt around the world
We’re running out of time
As our leaders roll the dice
The human spirit cries
It’s a precious, precious sacrifice
Let there be peace on earth
Let every voice be heard
Let there be peace on earth
‘Til it’s felt around the world 

Despierta al futuro: Momias medievales de Siberia desconciertan a los arqueólogos

Los académicos retoman el trabajo para liberar los secretos de una misteriosa civilización medieval relacionada con Persia en el límite del ártico siberiano.

Las 34 someras tumbas excavadas por los arqueólogos en Zeleniy Yar arrojan muchas más preguntas que respuestas. Pero una parece clara: Este remoto lugar, a 29 kilómetros del Círculo Polar Ártico, era un cruce de rutas comerciales de cierta importancia hace aproximadamente un milenio.

via Despierta al futuro: Momias medievales de Siberia desconciertan a los arqueólogos.

Do the Taco or Beer Challenge

“You find yourself a fucking taco, or a fucking beer, or a fucking taco and a beer, then you eat the fucking taco or drink the fucking beer or eat and drink both the fucking taco and the beer, and then you donate some money to an abortion fund. You fucking film yourself doing this shit and then you send us the fucking video and we put it on the fucking internet.”

Andrea Grimes started the challenge as a bit of a joke, after seeing the “ice bucket challenge” take off. Tacos and beers have about as much to do with abortion as ice buckets have to do with ALS — but they’re much, much more enjoyable.

And actually, you can make the challenge even more simple. You can skip the filming part and even the eating/drinking part (although I can’t imagine why you’d want to pass on that) and just donate to an abortion fund. As Grimes writes, “The Taco or Beer Challenge is about doing what’s right for your own taco and beverage needs, just like having an abortion—or not—is about doing what’s right for yourself and your family.”

As we remind you pretty regularly around these parts, access to abortion in this country is treated as a privilege, not a right — and abortion funds play a critical role in filling that gap and helping to ensure that everyone who needs an abortion can afford to get one.

You can find an abortion fund serving your community here.

via Do the Taco or Beer Challenge.