Inspirational quotes related to what August as a month celebrates (Happiness Happens and National Wellness month) ~

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours." - Dolly Parton

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." - Rumi

"Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation." - Audre Lorde

"Take the time today to love yourself. You desere it." - Avina Celeste 

"Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you." - Beyonce 

Book of the Month

The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, by Ellen Raskin

Dickory Dock takes a job as a painter’s assistant for the artist Garson. On the outside it all looks normal enough, but inside, not all is as it seems. Clues begin to pop up, and soon enough Dickory finds herself assisting Garson not in painting but in crime solving. If you like mystery, this book is for you!

Should we make the questions thread?

Curses! I missed MCU prep again! :(

here's the monthly playlist!

"Wildest Dreams" by LÉON

"Airplane" by Indigo Girls

"Breath It In" by sixten

"sun#2" by Lor (ft. Runforrest)

"Free" by Elina

"august" by Taylor Swift 

August-ish-themed book quotes :) 

"I'd never been in that particular gas station before, but it was exactly the same as every other one, so really I'd been in it a million times. Rows of plastic-wrapped junk food. Walls lined with glass-doored coolers full of pop and [something] and flavored ice teas. I walked past the metal racks of beef jerky and candy bars to the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow: the slushy machine." - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

"and especially I liked the dog/in the dog poem/because that's just how/my yellow dog/used to lie down,/with his tongue all limp/and his chin/between/his paws/and how he'd sometimes/chomp at a fly/and then sleep/in his loose skin/just like that poet,/Miss Valerie Worth,/says,/in her small/dog poem." - Love That Dog

"And then the dog came running around the corner. He was a big dog. And ugly. And he looked like he was having a real good time. His tongue was hanging out and he was wagging his tail. He skidded to a stop and smiled right at me. I had never before in my life seen a dog smile, but this is what he did. He pulled back his lips and showed me all his teeth. Then he wagged his tail so hard that he knocked some oranges off a display and they went rolling everywhere, mixing in with the tomatoes and onions and green peppers." - Because of Winn-Dixie

"Their adventures began chiefly because it was one of the wettest and coldest summers there had been for years. That drove them to do indoor things: you might say, indoor exploration. It is wonderful how much exploring you can do with a stump of candle in a big house, or in a row of houses. Polly had discovered long ago that if you opened a certain little door in the box-room attic of her house you would find the cistern and a dark place behind it you could get into by a little careful climbing. The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other. In the roof there were little chunks of light between the slates. There was no floor in this tunnel: you had to step from rafter to rafter, and between them there was only plaster. Polly had used that bit of tunnel just beside the cistern as a smugglers' cave." - The Magician's Nephew

"I love watermelon! Gulp. I just swallowed a seed. I SWALLOWED A SEED! It's growing in my guts! Soon vines will come out of my ears! My stomach will stretch! My skin will turn pink! I don't want to be in a fruit salad!" - The Watermelon Seed

Tysm, everybody :) We've got everything we need!