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My name is Ashley Mangan. I'm nineteen. I like being an observer, capturing/creating beauty, and making lists.

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I’ve decided to start cooking more. Tonight I made garlic thyme roasted sweet potatoes. These were amazing, from this recipe.

I’ve decided to start cooking more. Tonight I made garlic thyme roasted sweet potatoes. These were amazing, from this recipe.

Just cut my hair shorter than ever, and I love it!

Just cut my hair shorter than ever, and I love it!

Trees in Keo, AR

Trees in Keo, AR

Taken in Keo, AR. The dragonflies there are intensely green.

Taken in Keo, AR. The dragonflies there are intensely green.

Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
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First song I’ve learned on the ukelele: “Fuck Was I” by Jenny Owen Youngs. I’m still not any good, but I’m having fun.

A project I did for my origami class about a year ago. I miss doing stuff like this.

A project I did for my origami class about a year ago. I miss doing stuff like this.

The experience of falling in love is the emotional shock produced by a sudden reorientation of personal attention. But such an experience is not yet love. To sustain that attention over time, even at great cost, is what it means to love.

(Source: thedancingfilly)

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
— Anais Nin (via reluctantbuddha)