a commonplace book

on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country

[bettygemma]

leave room for hope

[iggyfing]

absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

[mikimeiko]

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[papayajuan2019]

must feel so good to be soil absorbing rain

[innerchildabortionclinic]

your cat was an honor to see in the window

[hedonisticacademia-deactivated2]

library book return dates

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[seraph1c-mo0n]

- canes

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

[bettygemma]

"When I reach the lane, I remember the piece of parchment and unfold it carefully. Grace has drawn me a picture: a black cat with ears and whiskers. Underneath she has scratched in charcoal the letters C-A-T. The sight of the carefully spelled word fills me with such joy that I want to jump in the snow like a child. Grace Harding has started to read and write. No one, not even sour Mrs Edwards, can take that from her.

Trudging up the lane, I pat the parchment in my pocket. I will fold it inside a book. How wonderful to bring the pleasure of reading and writing to one little girl. It is a small success, one small word, but like each new word Middy acquires, it has a greatness about it.

Teach all your children to read, you said, Mamma."

'In the margins,' Gail Holmes

[escuerzoresucitado]

[blue-honey]

Excuse my absence, I was being kicked around like the football by life herself

[projectiondepartment]

every time it rains i think of that raymond carver poem. poetry is like prayer to me methinks. or an incantation

[projectiondepartment]

this one btw

[storybookprincess]

being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response

feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little

[autumn2may]

i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL

[tartrazeen]

Rereading this on my sick days 🙏🏽

[gothiccharmschool]

Why do I feel like I should print this out, frame it, and hang it in my office?

[hidefdoritos]

Hey everyone, remember that being sick or healing from injuries is a hard time for your body. You have to eat a lot and lay still and be kind to yourself! [large neon sign that says HYPOCRITE descends from the ceiling and points at me] Hey what the heck what's this who put that there

[harrietvane]

Happy April Fools (the Peter and Harriet way)

#YOU’RE BOTH AWFUL #actual literal embodiment of pivilege and the inherent problems with the cinderella romance paradigm #deconstructing conventions LIKE A BOSS #that time Sayers sat with her characters like that image macro of the NOW KISS dolls and they would NOT #and she was like Hmmm why are they not making out? Could they be behaving like… humans?? #and so she wrote Gaudy Night #and we all live in the blessed universe it inhabits

[apesoformythoughts]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[ID: Tweet edited to look like it's from St. Basil the Great, complete with the handle 'caesarea' and an icon of him as the profile picture. Tweet says "billionaires are so weird. what are you saving up for? hell?" End ID.]

[random-brushstrokes]

Albert Bartholomé - The Artist's Wife (Périe, 1849–1887) Reading (1883)