This week: 90’s Grrl #Grunge, #cat goddess #Bastet, 8 factors for #happiness in one helpful #infographic, mythical #beasts of #Scandinavia, #soups and stews from around the world and much more. #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings
Chasing away winter in Slovenia with a 1000 year old Pagan tradition
Throwing Muses enjoying coffee together in a diner, some time in the 90’s
I love a lot of these 90s girl bands and female artists from this time: Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Lush, Throwing Muses, Sleater Kinney, Magic Dirt.
A great song by Throwing Muses
The Egyptian cat goddess Bastet, protector of Ra
A really nice channel with atmospheric stories about ancient goddesses and their powers.
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People walked right here…people lived right here
Explorations of Edinburgh past and present with author, poet and time traveller Carly Brown.
Maybe ‘you had to be there’, but for me there is something really special and really surreal in looking at the same street across this immense gap of time. People walked right here. People lived right here. And that’s the case for every city, not just Edinburgh. People walked the same streets, lived their lives inside the same walls. I’m not saying that I actually believe in ghosts but it’s hard not to imagine that something of these people lingers – if only in our photographs.
Eight factors that lead to happiness, according to a Duke University Study
A moment of gratitude for a chair
From Mariner2Mother’s extraordinary spirituality blog:
I was filled with gratitude for the chair. But it didn’t stop there. I was filled with gratitude for all of the materials that went into the chair. I was filled with gratitude for everyone who put the chair together, for the trees that provided the wood, for Mother Earth who grew the trees, for the teachers who educated the craftsmen, for the factory where the workers put everything together, and on and on. I suddenly saw a massive web of interdependence.
Looking around the room, I felt the same gratitude for everything that went into creating everything I saw, and everyone’s efforts. The divine flowed through me.
I saw that we all play an important role in the greater whole, and how each and every role is needed. Even the craftsman who worked independently to do their job used tools that someone else made and was raised by someone and taught by someone.
Mythical beasts of Scandinavia
How hairstyles influence women’s attractiveness
In a nutshell medium length and long length hair influences attractiveness. However in the second part it goes into racial and westernised beauty standards and how black or mixed race women feel pressured in the workplace to conform by straightening their hair to make it look more ‘white’. I can relate to this. As I’ve gotten older I’ve learned to embrace my fuzzy curls.
30 soups and stews from around the world
Found via Cool Guides on Reddit
An easy one bowl vegan carrot cake
Via Tracey’s great blog of yummy recipes, ‘Vegan Practically’
Anyone who has been vegan for any length of time has likely already discovered the world of vegan baking. If you’re a dessert-lover who has worried that you will never enjoy desserts again, it’s time to re-imagine your future discovering the abundance of incredible vegan desserts.
To go in the dark
To go in the dark with a light
is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark.
Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too,
blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet
and dark wings.
~ Wendell Berry ‘To Know The Dark’
The Lantern Bearers by Maxfield Parrish (1908)
Something about these joyful and mischievous clowns, the lanterns looking like glowing moons and the crepuscular sky fills me with joy.
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I’m a 4AD fan too.
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It’s such a great label…so many great acts over the years have been part of it 😍 thanks for reading
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