[petrichara]

And no I don’t think love ever leaves because it’s been eight years since my dad died and he is in every thought and hope and dream. and when I think I can’t fix the computer he is here. and when I eat chocolate cake he is here. and when the sun glows at 3pm he is here. and he will always be here because his life made mine, and my life will be his epilogue

[petrichara]

Recently I’ve been thinking about forgiveness and freedom, presence and passing. He died, and he remains. He’s not here to love his favourite flowers; I water them daily. He can’t walk along his favourite path; I’ll think of him as I do. He exists in the mirror with the eyes we share, and I share his life with stories and myself. He is thought of in all that he was, all that he is.

[dogrotpdf]

I AM WORKING ON BEING KINDER WHEN I AM HURT.

the-poetic-boy / paige lewis / safia elhillo / nutnoce / jane rule / carole maso / anne carson, edit by heavensghost

[voirlvmer]

the-poetic-boy / paige lewis, from space struck / safia elhillo, from “haitham”, home is not a country / jane rule, work not found / carole maso, from the art lover / anne carson, from grief lessons: four plays by euripedes, edit by heavensghost

[mashamorevna]

“I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing. I will ask nobody’s forgiveness again.”

— Franz Wright, from God’s Silence: Poems; “Reparations,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[rawhoneybliss]

"But this, but that"...this type of energy is very draining on the body, mind and soul. What are you focused on? Problems or possibilities? When you perceive problems, that's what you get, more problems. This is not about being "realistic". This is about what you're choosing to focus on. It's been said that what you focus on expands. When you focus on problems, those problems expand. When you focus on positive change, opportunities, solutions, joy and success, guess what expands?

"A change in perception can change everything." - Raw Honey Bliss

[tellherium]

I didn't deserve it. I know that now. I knew it then. I guess it's partly my fault, too. Neither of us treated me like someone we loved.

[dailyworldcinema]

DEAR EX ‘誰先愛上他的’ dir. Mag Hsu, Chih-yen Hsu

[virginiewoolf]

“You robbed me of my life. I could have been human—I could have been alive, but you took my heart and you murdered it. You made me into this.”

— Emilie Autumn, from The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

[showcasedisplaysofsanity]

ON PURPOSE, I'M GOING TO LOVE YOU ON PURPOSE

Jenny Slate // Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue // Pleiades, Anne Carson // Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // @oriley42 and @earth167 (and a half) on Tumblr // Jodi Picoult from The Book Of Two Ways // The Night Vale, Episode 100, The Toast // Adam Melchor, I Choose You // Kierston White, The Chaos of Stars

[lesbianaglaya]

[yearningheart]

happy hour by marlowe granados

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

transit by rachel cusk

[angergrls]

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

[wolfsena-deactivated20220408]

„But it’s pointless to think about that now.“

[heavensghost]

Shame, Katie Maria

[feral-ballad]

You were such a great joy to me that it almost seems like our time together was a lie. It’s as if I dreamed it. It’s like a dream and not like an actual lived experience.

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Velma García-Gorena, from Gabriela Mistral’s Letters to Doris Dana; “February 22, 1949”

[magsam]

beautiful take on grief by Andrew Garfield

[weltenwellen]

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

[flowerytale]

Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red