The Aging Riot Grrrl

22/07/2024

art by Naomi Boiko-Stapleton
Watercolour on cotton

19/05/2024

“Are you wearing the—“

“The snoots? Yeah yeah I am”

08/02/2024

New Moon In Aquarius, February 9~ Life can come at you quickly. One day, you're walking down a familiar sidewalk, whistling in the sunshine like you've got it all figured out. And the next, your whole world can be turned around, leaving you in an upside down and backwards land where nothing is what it seems. Scrambling for something to pull out of your sleeve, but none of your old tricks work anymore. And your heart is too overwhelmed to do anything about anything.
It is in these moments that life is trying to send you a message: The time has come to change directions.
How you respond will dictate whether this moment ultimately becomes a catalyst for growth, or a disruption, or an impassable road block.
Uncertainty breeds tension. It can make us feel like we have to make ourselves smaller, out of fear that we aren't capable, we aren't worthy.
This built-up tension coursing through us must find release one way or another. And find it, it will. If we aren't in control of the valves, it will cause us to act out in ways that seem erratic and unpredictable to others. In ways that are unhealthy and unproductive.
The only solution is to find a solution to your problems and to seize back control of your energies and emotions.
Wallowing in your troubles will only leave you drowning.
It is in the search for solutions that creative innovation can spark revolutionary new ideas.
The most world changing inventions only exist because someone refused to give up on a problem. Refused to just accept it. Because someone believed in what can be, not just what was.
Break free from the status quo, from all the people telling you to only exist with what is. F**k that. You can create your life to be whatever you want it to be. Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Don't listen to the voices of insecurity in your head, don't fall for your own self imposed limitations.
Embrace the unknown, embrace a new direction, expect the unexpected.
Because what if the thing you are looking for can't be seen? What if it's just beyond the horizon, waiting for you to call it in? What if it doesn't even exist yet, and it's up to you to create it?
If your life isn't what you want it to be right now, then you better be planting seeds. You better be doing the shadow work. You better be learning all you can about yourself, so that you can accept who you are, and truly love yourself. You better be keeping your mind and your heart open.
So that when opportunity comes knocking on your door, you are ready for it. Ready to greet it with open arms, to invite it in, to share a cup of tea.
You don't want opportunity to show up at your door, take one look around, and decide that maybe it came to the wrong house.
So confront your fears, all of your self doubts. Banish them from your home. Don't make yourself smaller just to accommodate. Don't make yourself smaller in exchange for comfort and security.
This is how you give your power away.
We are here because the light wanted to experience itself. Don't keep your eyes shut in darkness, open up the windows to your soul, experience the light! It's the whole point of being alive.
Don't waste your time comparing yourself to others. Embrace your unique way of moving through the world. Erase all desires to be anyone but yourself.
Stop making excuses.
Do the work, and your creative visions will call in all that you need.
Believe in yourself. You are the magic.
You hold within you the power to turn on the light.
So turn it on.
And let it guide you.

-Jen Fountain

30/12/2023

30/12/2023

01/12/2023

They are the Misfits! Their songs are better! From Hasbro's "Jem and the Holograms" collection in 1985, here are the bad girls of pop -- Pizzazz, Roxy and Stormer!

12/11/2023

Everything can wait🖤
📸: kiracyan.design

22/10/2023

Cass Elliot

21/09/2023

Marilyn Monroe con su gato Mitsou, 1951
(Foto de Earl Leaf)

07/09/2023

I've been puff, puff, painting away at this for a few days now and it's wrapping up and I'm really liking it :D very sweet little set of drawers I rescued from the curb that definitely wanted to be made into something special and cute 🖤

17/08/2023

When Miami police wouldn't let her get a motorcycle license in the early 1950s, Bessie Stringfield demanded a meeting with the department's white chief. He took her to a park and asked her to perform a number of difficult motorcycle tricks — and she nailed them all.⁠ ⁠ "From that day on, I didn't have any trouble from the police, and I got my license too." It didn’t take long for her to earn the nickname of "Motorcycle Queen Of Miami."

03/08/2023

22/07/2023

Gonna pray on you!

13/07/2023

12/07/2023

secondlina

09/05/2023

resin pour kitchen mixers 🌈💗💙💛💜

08/05/2023

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the the sun, moon and stars. ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️
The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moon, and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars. The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep.
Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for colouring.
Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile. The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth and they have one of the longest flowering seasons of any flower. Seeds are often carried as many as 5 miles from their origin. Animals such as birds, insects and butterflies consume nectar or seed of dandelion 🐝
Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seed. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years. Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as diuretic.
Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist, masters of survival worldwide.
Every year countries spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green.