abby vanduker, 20, oklahoma

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invisible children
charity: water
liberty in north korea

et soudain, j’ai besoin d’eau. peut-être j’irai nager après mon examen demain.

A U.S. soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his dog leap off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior on March 1.

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cryptstine:

katgor:

cryptstine:

interesting.  katgor, considering your tab habits, you could probably save the world using this.

already workin’ it! I donated a bunch of vaccinations the other day :3

but considering I’m reading a book right now/watching copious amounts of TV, my browsing habits are a little more constrained than they usually are. I have off the next few days though, so it’ll be fuck tons of awesome donations and shit. Hells yeah.

The only thing that bothers me is where the fuck is this money coming from and how it translates to tabs and shit. Like, browsing the internet copiously in the first world… is google paying for this?

Excellent question, and I’ve been wondering the same thing.  I can’t seem to find any explanation.  Google could probably afford to pay for it, though.

Also, I kind of wish you could split your donation to multiple charities, instead of choosing just one.

Google is funding the donations, up to $1,000,000. For a company as large as Google, being worth approximately $163 billion, a million dollars isn’t much and this campaign does a great deal of good publicity for them as well as bringing in new Chrome users…but it is still a million dollars for great causes. If all of the million went to Charity: Water, that would be clean, accessible water for fifty thousand people for twenty years. That’s big.

cypress-tree / by: vanduker

If you are a Google Chrome user (which, if you’re not, you should be) be sure to download this extension for the next four days.
Each tab you open raises money for a charity! All you have to do is install the extension; no real amount of work or money out of your pocket. Charity: water, one of my personal favorites, is included and I highly suggest you check them out and try to reach the 200 tabs a day (yes, you can just open and close tabs to rack them up) to give someone clean water for an entire year. With the cost of this through charity: water at $20, that makes every one of your tabs worth ten cents…for doing basically nothing. For more info, see this blog post.

P.S. For Mac, ⌘-T opens a new tab and ⌘-W closes it. 

Bixby Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, CA

“I descended a dusty gravel ridge
Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge
Until I eventually arrived
At the place where your soul had died

Barefoot in the shallow creek
I grabbed some stones from underneath
And waited for you to speak to me

And the silence, it became so very clear
That you had long ago disappeared
I cursed myself for being surprised
That this didn’t play like it did in my mind”

Bixby Canyon Bridge by Death Cab for Cutie

sweethomestyle: symbiosis:

I want to wake to a salty breeze and the sunrise, slip out from under the covers, keeping quiet to keep you asleep- twist the hairs on my head into some messy bun on my way to the kitchen to make a hot mug of English breakfast tea. I’ll pick up a Stephen King novel, and curl up in that chair to read in the warm morning sun- until you awake, I’ll hear the floorboards creak under your feet as you join me (whoever you may be). Every morning.

Oh, how I can dream.

sweethomestyle / by: symbiosis

This is where I want to be so badly.
I’m adding “learn to surf” to the bucket list. 

(via mor.gan)