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carlie — 21 — california

[flowerytale]

Mary Oliver ― Fall

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[northwindow]

Claire Schwartz, from “Lecture on Loneliness”

[nevver]

Emma Bers (because)

[legitimately]

need a full body massage a margarita 400mg of ibuprofen a plate of brownies at least an hour in a jacuzzi and 20,000 dollars cash

[legitimately]

[sansgod]

might as well

[firstfullmoon]

I look out and the sun like your hand on my face

is warm, and for a moment I think this is glorious, this is what forgiveness feels like.

— Rafael Campo, from “California”

[allmyknivesaremadeoutofbutter-d]

sometimes i come home and wash my hands and see myself in the mirror and go ah, i can really see how i might be loveable. then i wash some dishes or something

[sarhoskedi-deactivated20241211]

[litaratura]

E.E Scott, Every Day I Am Trying New Techniques To Make Myself Disappear

[sunsounds]

[text ID: Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget.”

[colin-vian]

[silver-and-shadow]

“Hands” by He Lihuai (2017, oil on canvas)

[firstfullmoon]

“What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace.”

— Joan Didion, from “On the Morning after the Sixties,” in The White Album

[pinkmoon888]

so important to your health to eat carbohydrates. and to write mediocre poetry

[hadrian6]

Study of a Man. 1852-56. Thomas Couture. French 1815-1879. oil/canvas.         http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[julykings]

thinking about change until the water gets cold

[soracities]

Simone Weil, “Void and Compensation” (trans. Emma Craufurd), Simone Weil: An Anthology

[Text ID: “I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”]

[weltenwellen]

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score