dearly loved

28. Lover of Jesus, words, and all things handmade.

[exhaled-spirals]

— Will Rees, “Kafka the hypochondriac”

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

[poetryforall]

[a-gentle-strength]

—NAO, Ode to A New Year

[restbeyondtheriver]

Are you afraid to write? Are you afraid of what you will find? It is there whether you find it or not.

[coolvistobueno]

Sevilla, 21 de febrero de 2024

Antonio Íñigo,

[ishikorokoroishi]

“  snapshot in Japan “

Photo by Ishikoro.

Love & Peace!

[a-gentle-strength]

—NAO, Not The Way You Saw Coming

[feral-ballad]

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “All inner life runs at some delay”

[exitwound]

i need to find a beautiful novel to read & change my life

[woodsandhearth]

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

[restbeyondtheriver]

28 is eye wrinkles & sun spots on my nose & still being here after all this time

[a-gentle-strength]

Wait this hits hard, I just turned 28 this week🥲

[fairycosmos]

they love to make documentaries about murderers. what about old ladies who grow vegetables gardens. what are their secrets. how do their minds tick

[incognita-soul]

I've spent all afternoon thinking about the line from Wentworth's letter "you sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others" and about how that really is the most important part of the letter. Yes "you pierce my soul" and "I have loved none but you" and "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago" are all more swoon-worthy. But the whole point of Persuasion is how Anne suffers because none of her friends or family acknowledge her needs or anything she says. She is made small by everyone around her. She is persuadable because she has been stripped of her agency; not by the circumstances of her life, but because the people in her life have talked over and down to her so much that she has stopped resisting. She knows that she won't be heard, so she just stops speaking. But then Wentworth hears her voice! He hears her, sees her, and he loves her for who she is, not what he wants her to be. I think Jane Austen knew exactly what she was doing by including that line. It's so subtle in such a purposeful way.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

[a-gentle-strength]

*Added to nkem’s list of movies to watch IMMEDIATELY*

[both-seeker-and-sought]

“Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Letters (via collectivelyiridescent)

[mollyyoung]

[theupperroomofficial]

“One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.”

—

John Flavel