A Snapshot Of One Morning, On A Relaxed Day With Mild Weather. Now Imagine This When It's Crowded Or

A fall landscape.

Reason to Live #9890

  Eating a meal made by somebody who loves you. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.) 

being able to gently hold a kiwi (bird) would heal my inner turmoil, I think

Accidental flash

Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

Fast vs. Slow Shutter Speed - Lofoten Islands, 2025

Same scene, but 2 different ways of capturing it: fast vs. slow shutter speed. Which one is your favourite (if you have one)?

The iconic view of the red rorbuers in Hamnøy with the crashing waves in foreground and Festhæltinden peak in the background.

by Karádi Zita

I always feel self-conscious when I have to walk slower bc I know that everyone around me gets so irritated at anyone walking Not Fast 😓

Crescent Beach Sunset - Northern California

Harry Snowden

"But why do you let your disability stop you?" Because that's.... what disabilities... do. That's... literally the basic definition... of being disabled... A disability impairs your ability to function. That's what the term means. That's the main thing

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?