Rex

My painting BIG SUR WILDFLOWERS

"Timoris"? never heard of it

but the answer is yes

it will never be enough

please let the yerba neuroprotection rumors be real

haven't been able to sleep

The ideas keep rolling, Okami style Fox Hinako incoming 👀

nvm, they don't contain electronic filters

in that case 59 is a bit much. though "connection mode" might be nice for lower noise environments

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$59, not bad.

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good choice

drawingtober day7 a little mortis, rotating this guy in my head.

drawingtober day 6 umiri on a pizza box

wishing you the best of luck

friend said that she "actually didn't feel like dying" before i dropped her off

could not be any more happy

woodland dance
#watercolor #traditionalwork #art #illustration

druid
#illustration #art #watercolor #traditionalart

self-soothe time

An illustration of a desi fabric store. A girl to the left is tired and bored with her head resting on her hands. A little boy binding in the fabric to the right peek through in her direction. In the background a lady is purchasing some fabric from the uncle-ji who works there.

An ode to the bored kids at the Desi Business Plaza - Part 3: Finding fun at the kapra store

#kidlit #kidlitart

can I like. help you

cats ive met this year!

neighbor's cat (Wowzer), restaurant cat (stray), & friend's cat (Yena)!

The association between adverse childhood experiences and mental disorders among adolescents in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam: Evidence from the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys - Child and A... Background Few studies have examined the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among adolescents living in low- and middle-income countries, and fewer assessed the association with mental...

capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The matter of motivation: Striatal resting-state connectivity is dissociable between grit and growth mindset The current study utilized resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine how two important non-cognitive skills, grit and growth mindset, are associated with cortico-striatal n...

"Ventral striatal networks involving the mPFC as well as the PCC highly correlated with grit and likely represent strategies for staving off distractions in the face of delayed reinforcement." (Myers et al., (2016))

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (2/2)

"Greater grit was characterized by statistically significant vStr connectivity with rostral ACC (rACC), medial PFC (mPFC), including the right frontal pole, and a cluster in the posterior CC (PCC; in both simple correlation and multiple regression with grit regressing out growth mindset)..." (1/2)

The Will to Persevere Induced by Electrical Stimulation of the Human Cingulate Gyrus Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is known to be involved in functions such as emotion, pain, and cognitive control. While studies in humans and non-human mammals have advanced our understanding of ACC ...

"...it follows that differences in structure and function of this (Anterior Midcingulate Cortex) network are associated with innate differences in our abilities to cope with physical or psychological distress." (Parvizi et al., (2013))

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

i repeat, hard things are good. we must value effort or we are so finished

They do exist but good lord are they expensive.

You're basically paying for the price of in-ears and could be anywhere from a couple hundred to a couple thousand

never a dull moment but it's okay hard things are good for your brain

Fantail pigeons
artist: Tien Yu-Chih (my grandma!)
#chineseart #brushpainting #chinesebrushpainting #inkpainting #blueskyart #flowers #art #naturepainting #nature #artbsky #painting

I share this because it is true, but whenever I'm actually working I'm the bunny not the cat. But that's what makes mania dysfunctional

kagepro coser at my booth humanity is saved.

ny weather so nice.