pop tarts & lightbulbs
To get your fix for the day, prepare:
1/4 cup serious stuff
1/4 cup cute thingamajigs
1/4 cup artworks
1/4 cup plain weird facts
Mix them all together and season with cinnamon or any spice of choice.
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thefrogman:
When doing portrait photography it is always important to keep in mind “the rule of thirds.” This rule, which closely relates to the golden ratio and the famed “Fibonacci Sequence,” separates rectangular photography into a 9 section grid. The points at which the grid lines intersect are the optimal spots to place key compositional elements. As you can see in the photograph above, the subject’s eyes are parallel to the top most horizontal grid line. This technique guarantees that your focus will be drawn to the eyes and nothing else.
[girly snicker..]
Can’t see the rule of thirds at work. Way too distracted.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5r7dQNrG1qgquvwo1_250.jpg)
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Pinoy Tumblr.: Visa Exemption for Filipinos
If you’re a Filipino and a holder of Philippine passport who likes traveling and exploring the beauty of the world, but hates the visa requirement to some countries, frown no more for you can still go to wonderful places without hassle-visa-appointments.
The list of countries below doesn’t…
(Source: twentyfive.hubpages.com)
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How Your Greatest Insecurities Reveal Your Deepest Gifts (Psychology Today)
“In my decades of practice as a psychotherapist, this is the insight that has inspired me most:
Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.
I’ve found that the very qualities we’re most ashamed of, the ones we keep trying to reshape or hide, are in fact the key to finding real love. I call them core gifts.
It’s so easy to get lost in the quest for self-improvement. Every billboard seduces us with the vision of a happier, more successful life. I’m suggesting an opposite road to happiness. If we can name our own awkward, ardent gifts, and extricate them from the shame and wounds that keep them buried, we’ll find ourselves on a bullet train to deep, surprising, life-changing intimacy.
Over the years, I realized that the characteristics of my clients which I found most inspiring, most essentially them, were the ones which frequently caused them the most suffering.
Some clients would complain of feeling like they were “too much”; too intense, too angry, or too demanding. From my therapist’s chair, I would see a passion so powerful that it frightened people away.
Other clients said they felt that they felt like they were “not enough”; too weak, too quiet, too ineffective. I would find a quality of humility and grace in them which would not let them assert themselves as others did.
Clients would describe lives devastated by codependency, and I would see an immense generosity with no healthy limits.
Again and again, where my clients saw their greatest wounds, I also saw their most defining gifts!
Cervantes said that reading a translation is like viewing a tapestry from the back. That’s what it’s like when we try to understand our deepest struggles without honoring the gifts that fuel them.
When we understand our lives through the lens of our gifts it’s as if we step out from behind the tapestry and really see it for the first time. All of a sudden, things make sense. We see the real picture, the moving, human story of what matters most to us. We begin to understand that our biggest mistakes, our most self-sabotaging behaviors were simply convulsive, unskilled attempts to express the deepest parts of ourselves…”
(via howimet-yourfather)
