Life is a dream until realized.

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10 November 1775. I was born in a bomb crater. My mother was an M16 and my father was the devil. Each moment that I live is an additional threat upon your life. I eat concertina, piss napalm, and I can shoot a round through a flea’s ass at 300 meters. I travel the globe, festering on anti-Americans everywhere I go, for the love of mom, Chevrolet, baseball, and apple pie. I’m a grunt. I’m the dirty, nasty, stinky, sweaty, filthy, beautiful little son of a bitch that’s kept the wolf away from the door for over 225 years. I’m a United States Marine. We look like soldiers, talk like sailors, slap the shit out of both of them. We stole the eagle from the Air Force, the rope from the Army, and the anchor from the Navy. And on the 7th day, when God rested, we overran his perimeter and we’ve been running the show ever since. Warrior by day, lover by night, drunker by choice, Marine by God. Semper Fidelis.

The self-less sacrifice of day to day military personnel, especially combat veterans, is under appreciated. And you got the American society wanna run as fast as they can to the counter tops, to the fuckin’ newsstands, and grab mother fuckin’ Us Weekly’s and fuckin’ People Magazine just to see what fuckin’ Jake Gyllenhaal did on Thursday afternoon. You know what I did Thursday afternoon? I put one of my mo’fuckin’ Marines on a plane. I put that motherfucker on the bird to fuckin’ nowhere. I picked his lifeless ass up body, put him on a stretcher, and put him off. Why don’t they put that, why don’t that be in a mother fuckin’ magazine? Or how ‘bout let’s put a day in the life of fuckin’ any average Marine out here, going through the streets of Ramadi. Their biggest concern is that, you know, they couldn’t buy a mocha latte at fuckin’ Starbucks because it was under construction. Our biggest mother fuckin’ concern is getting blown up on fuckin’ 2 9er 5 in Michigan. But we’re gonna go home and they’re gonna say, wave their little flag, and say “Welcome Home, thanks for, thanks for preserving our right to go on not giving a fuck”.

There it is folks. We’re sitting here fighting for your freedoms. You got the right to say what you want, we got the right to punch you in your fuckin’ mouth if we disagree.

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#Powerful

- Bomb in the Garden Final Speech

I rewatched this episode yesterday. Yup, still damn awesome!

(via withtales)

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Wowww.
humansofnewyork:

Pretty sure I just took the best Google Glass picture in existence.

Wowww.

humansofnewyork:

Pretty sure I just took the best Google Glass picture in existence.

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Dirty & Downtrodden Maybe, but Never Defeated. #Powerful [Original Photo from CNN.com]
➹ Abilene
http://tadaa.im/Qm5fKs

Dirty & Downtrodden Maybe, but Never Defeated. #Powerful [Original Photo from CNN.com]
➹ Abilene
http://tadaa.im/Qm5fKs

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I’ve been going thru a bit of a social-identity-crisis as of late. I’ve never felt so disconnected from the set I deem my ‘immediates.’ The friends from days long ago who still bring the comfort of a knowing humor, family—even the distant-one’s you know by way of Facebook, all of those kind of *foil characters* in life.
Suddenly, I feel like I’m being written from one series-theme into another: “Stefanie and the Adventures of Adult-life” has given way to “Stefanie and the Social Wonderment.” I don’t recognize any of my go-to people in their stations. I am having trouble assigning them value within this new paradigm…not because they are value-less, but because I don’t have a concept of valuation right now. No one is rising to the top or nearer to me as a confidante, because I don’t seem to have a point of reference among them to counterbalance myself.

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I’m emotionally at a stand-still. I suddenly recognize the truly fleeting moments that cluster into memories of our life. 

& Idk if I’m particularly proud of my clusters, or if they’d better be described as simply, a cluster-Fk.I feel both lost & a tad hopeless. 
…but I’m sobered in awe of my great friend Dena, who can only entertain thoughts of truly living as she battles back against a disease attempting to consume her tender body . 
 I’m somehow torn. I do want to mourn my own lack of progress, and wallow in that safe place of depression, but how fkg dare I consider such a selfish regard? 
But I have Dena. I have her brilliance & grace carrying a bright light within an arm’s reach… She reminds me to make those moments mine; let others judge just what kind of cluster it turns out to be… First, acquire the moments that can be clustered into memories for later. It’s only my job to be in life’s mix. Be within it.

I’ve always loved this pic.

I’ve always loved this pic.

zodiaccity:

Big shoutout to all the Pisces!! :)

zodiaccity:

Big shoutout to all the Pisces!! :)

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ineedacompass:

Kansas City library parking garage

I’ve always wondered where this was when I’ve come across the pic other places. Thank You for pointing out its locale!! Suddenly I’m drawn to KC!

ineedacompass:

Kansas City library parking garage

I’ve always wondered where this was when I’ve come across the pic other places. Thank You for pointing out its locale!! Suddenly I’m drawn to KC!

Source: weheartit.com

sandrawright:

Wow.

#TrueArt

sandrawright:

Wow.

#TrueArt

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#LifesNotPerfect – Not Even the Sunshine & Rainbows

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I think I just passed the bus Christopher McCandless died in… it’s eastbound on I-10, jsyk. via Facebook

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Well, hello Sunshine State. I see, by the 2 State Troopers pulling ppl over just past the Welcome Center, that not much has changed since I last drove away. via Facebook

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Note to self: try a “roadside berry” one day to better understand the allure for deer. I mean really, *how good* are they?? via Facebook

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You know that stretch of Hwy90 by Spahr’s when every 15ft there’s hand-painted signs for FRESH crawfish, crab, shrimp, oysters by the sack… ANYTHING you could want… That’s the hardest part of leaving town. Who drives *away* from that?!? via Facebook