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I'm Ally Reid a mid-twenties girl who grew up with the true midwestern charm of Kansas and was transported to the Southern life of Florida. I am now in the DC Metro area enjoying the vast mix of Northern and Southern charm. |
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(via Helen Mirren Has Tea with Dying Boy After Actual Queen Says No)
Oh, come one with the stories that make me bawl today…
This is just too sweet.
(via meesharose)
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NotesThe tornado is born. Good Lord. I don’t think I could live in Oklahoma.
How to help the tornado victims.
(by Charles Cook)
This is incredible. Mother nature, y’all. Help out.
I still can’t get over the power of this tornado.
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Toto we are not in Kansas anymore
I can’t stop thinking about the Moore, OK tornado that unleased it’s furry yesterday. I happed to open twitter just a few moments after the tornado touched down, and being the Kansas girl I out of currosity clicked the link wunderground had tweeted out from KFOR the location new station in Oklahoma. On my screen popped up the largest tornado I had ever seen, and it staid there for what seemed like forever. I was glued to my computer and watched nearly the entire time it was on the ground.
Opening the link from twitter and sitting in my nice safe office in Virginia while watching this tornado rip through Oklahoma was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. Watching it unfold I knew the outcome wasn’t going to be a good one yet I couldn’t turn it away. The whole time I kept thinking how grateful I was that this tornado wasn’t in Kansas near my sister and other family. But at the same time feeling incredibly sorry for those who were going to lose their homes and even their lives.
Being born and raised in Kansas I have a unique fear and simulanious fascination with tornados. Some of my earliest memories stem from sever storms in Kansas. I remember coming out of the storm cellar or basement in house in Wichita, so I couldn’t have been more than 4 years old, after a storm to the ground covered in hail. I remember they were bigger than my little hand and I kept asking questions about why ice was on the ground in the middle of the summer.
I also remember seeing the destruction after the F-5 tornado hit Andover, KS in 1991, again when I was 4 years old, I don’t know if hail storm was the same storm as the Andover tornado or not. In September of that year my mother’s extended family had a family reunion that required us to drive through the town of Andover and my parents pointed out where my mom’s friends house had been and all the open space that was still left after the tornado destroyed what was there.
For those who can here a few links on ways you can help the people of Moore, OK.
The Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002
Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief: http://www.okdisasterhelp.com/donate/
The Oklahoma Baptist Disaster relief has already sent teams from Oklahoma City into the Moore area to set up mobile kitchens to help out those who lost their homes.
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Notes The Spartan Warrior: Oklahoma Tornado Relief AssistanceAre you looking to donate to assistance groups to help with the recovery in Oklahoma? Several links are below. Please let me know if you would like some added, or if there is reason to remove any links.
Please choose one donation organization below and make a small contribution if you can….
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Notes"Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘The Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machinegun?”
The obscure 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.
The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. Kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, “The NBC Nightly News” and other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them.
The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.
"Roger Ebert (via confusedtree)
(Source: yeezytaughtme, via librarian-byday)
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Softshell crab topped with avocado salsa on a jicama cucumber salad. #dinner
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This Mother’s Day weekend I have been further reminded just how grateful I am for my mother. She raised me to be the strong independent woman I am, and has always been there for me no matter what.
I am so thankful to have two loving parents who remind my sister and I almost daily how proud they are of the things we have accomplished. Never have we had to question the unconditional love they have for us. And never have we had to lie or hide parts of our lives in order to make them happy. They take the good with the bad, and as long as we are doing things that make us happy they are happy for us.
I can not wait for July when I get to spend some time with team and some extended family.
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I will never not reblog this
This is amazing
(Source: fartgallery, via meredithbklyn)
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Scallops on bacon and parm/Gouda blend risotto. Perfect dinner!
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Vodka soaked gummy worms are a great way to start a day of drinking.
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I miss this crap.
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I live in Oklahoma.
I am located not 15 miles from where this storm took place today. Back in 1999 on May 3rd a violent tornado ripped...
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“You’re killing me, Smalls.”
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