books and pictures

writer/gardener. she/her. posting stuff to remind myself that everyday life can be beautiful - interests include writing, reading, knitting, languages, plants - photographs are mine unless stated otherwise. sideblog: @spreadtheart

[eccedentesiast-skies]

You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

[lesyeuxdemeduse]

“Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain.”

Soraya Chemaly - Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags a comfort movie of yours that’s not supposed to be comforting

[dk-thrive]

I love this time – the in-between time, the time after all the gatherings and lights, the time before we swing back into the regular routines of the new year. It is the crack between the worlds, the place where dreaming can unfold and then spiral into being quickly and quietly. It is a place where, if we want them to, solitude and silence can surround us and the soul-hungers we have abandoned can find us once again. It is a time to listen deeply, to stay with stillness open to the impulse to move from the deepest part of what we are.

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, (Oriahmountaindreamer.com, December 30, 2013) (via Make Believe Boutique)

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[booksnpictures]

(usedom, germany)

[jasmineandpepper]

Appreciation post for all the beginner artists who work hard despite the AI ​​looming over us. You are fabulous. You are precious. Keep up the hard work, you are needed.

[autosadist]

how are you all carrying on like it isnt all happening

[havingapoemwithyou]

Daylight Savings by Grace Q. Song

[mysticalcats]

it's really gross how you can be self aware enough to know what's going on in your head but you can't actually stop it from happening. i need to grab it like a pigeon that got stuck in a house and throw it out the window. be free

[pridefulsuggestion]

stop giving yourself to people because you can’t think of a good enough reason to say no to them. you don’t need a reason to say no. you need a reason to say yes.

[cursesandcrows]

Me for the last 15 years: im a bit burnt out rn but im sure next week will be different

[homunculus-argument]

The stereotype of the nerd girl taking her glasses off and suddenly she's beautiful, but in reverse. A cold tough mean office lady who glares at everyone until she gets glasses and suddenly becomes sweet, approachable and friendly since she no longer has a constant headache over not being able to fucking see, doesn't need to squint at everything, and actually remembers individual people by name now that she can tell them apart at all.

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.

[estrellah]

Anton Chekhov, diary entry written c. November 1888

[weltenwellen]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"