learning to write love on my arms.

• 2013-05-15 0 notes

  

  {grace}

• 2013-05-08 35,096 notes

  sabreglass:

  nemomeimpune-lacessit:

  The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies

  The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.

  Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”

  http://thenuproject.com/
  

  This is so cute I’m screaming

  ama and red- i see a new project idea in your future.

  (via somethingred87)

  Source: nemomeimpune-lacessit

• 2013-04-28 25,571 notes

  Chris Cobb, an artist based in San Francisco, has created an amazing installation in bookshop called Adobe Books- he catalogued every single one of the 20,000 books by color. The project is titled There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World. They were arranged by hand over a 10 hour period, and he enlisted the help of 16 volunteers. Such beautiful results, they transformed the bookshop overnight.

  (via)

  this is how my books are organized. by color.

  (via bookshelfporn)

  Source: showslow

• 2013-04-22 0 notes

  little sleep.
  missing her.
  nightmares.
  old photographs.
  paper hearts.
  quiet my anxious soul.
  rest my weary eyes.
  save my soul.
  tattered dreams.

  {come}

• 2013-04-18 391 notes

  annmarieamick:

  itscolossal:

  Photographer Matej Peljhan takes a boy with muscular dystrophy on an imaginary adventure. 

  those of us behind the lens have the potential to do so much in this world, and so often we are selfish with our lenses.

  THIS. i would love to have someone do this for my kids at camp. {melt my heart}

  Source: itscolossal

• 2013-04-14 0 notes

  

  lighting a prayer candle for a few special people in need of prayer. {if you want/need prayer too, please message me}

• 2013-04-11 0 notes

  {oh mama Beth}

  My faithful, most holy Father and my God,

  With tremendous love I lift my sister to you. You know what stirs in her heart, what awakens her at night, what causes her to shudder, and what seeks to devour her. You have seen her in the secret place and you know her longings and her questions and her dreams and her hopes. You know the very place that doubt seeks to swallow her and deceit desires to seed in her. Spring her eyes open to cleansing, delivering Truth. Minister to her in such a personal way throughout the coming days that she is floored once again by Your all-knowingness and complete attentiveness. Sprout signs of harvest in a field where she has sown so faithfully and seen so little. Help her to see that her labor is not in vain. Soak the fleece in such a way that she’ll know You are with her. Send someone to encourage her in such a specific area that she’ll know You alone could have prompted it.

  Grant her a heart to love You with an abounding affection that could only be supernatural and cause her to feel her heart teeming with love toward someone who is loveless toward her. Protect her heart and heal her mind where it may be bent or twisted. Take all shame off of her and cast out her self-loathing once and for all and lift her chin to see her redemption drawing near. Give her faith enough to believe that she has truly been forgiven and that You who began a good work in her will most assuredly complete it. Put a new relationship in her life that brings much joy to her in You and revives her faith-walk and makes her laugh. Healthy friendships, Lord! Help her to finally release a relationship that You have clearly brought to an end and to do so without resentment or bitterness, trusting You entirely with the future. Be radiant upon her face. Tell her forthrightly how lovely she is to You and how significant. Quiet that part of her that seeks to perform for acceptance. Give her joy in a more honest version of herself. Reveal Your gorgeous self to her, Lord Jesus. Let every false Christ in her life bow to the One and Only True so that she can see it is You. Make every competing voice hush to Yours.

  In Your beautiful, saving, redeeming Name, Jesus, I bring these earnest requests. Amen

• 2013-03-22 201,566 notes

  hauntingly beautiful.

  (via annmarieamick)

  Source: hibiku

• 2013-02-19 229 notes

  

  i wish i could draw.

  (via annmarieamick)

  Source: t-mueninkul

• 2013-02-15 5 notes

  Introspection means talking to yourself, and one of the best ways of talking to yourself is by talking to another person. One other person you can trust, one other person to whom you can unfold your soul. One other person you feel safe enough with to allow you to acknowledge things—to acknowledge things to yourself—that you otherwise can’t. Doubts you aren’t supposed to have, questions you aren’t supposed to ask. Feelings or opinions that would get you laughed at by the group or reprimanded by the authorities.

  — Words from a lecture delivered by William Deresiewicz at West Point in October 2009. Read the whole thing here, if you have not already.  (via melissafitzpatrick)

  Source: melissafitzpatrick