iaminuit:

Taktuk Hopson, photographed wearing a parka made by her mother, Rainey Hopson.
Rainey Hopson: “I made it [parka] last fall. Underneath, the quilted lining part, was from Ben’s cousin, her daughter out grew it. I took the cover off and replaced it with a cover I ordered off of Etsy [laughs]. The ruff (fur sewn around the hood of the parka) is from Ben’s mother, who passed away when they were younger and I kept it. It’s a farmed fox fur [ruff], perfect for little girls. My mom passed away when I was really young, when I was 11, so I didn’t get to learn from her. She sewed. I went to college in Northern California, my grandmother on my step dad’s side lives there, she’s a quilter. She bought me this super old sewing machine. It weighted like 150 pounds. I started sewing there. When I moved back to Alaska, a women from Barrow [Alaska] got me into sewing parkas. She would rip it apart and make you do it over and over again. You have to have a perfect stitching, if its too wide you will get air gaps and if its too small the stitch will rip through the skin. It’s a lost art.” —Taktuk Hopson and Rainey Hopson are both Inupiaq and live in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.

haleyincarnate:

Quote from BoJack Horseman: Season 2, Episode 10

andantegrazioso:

Anthuriums | lauriearons

birdasaurus:

Bibi Carol

violentwavesofemotion:

Gabriela Mistral, from The Collected Poems & Prose; “Quietness,” wr. c. 1931