un trop plein d'amour

[antigonick]

It was lucky she had never had any intention of having babies; now she would certainly never marry either. She would live out her days [here], a bookish spinster attended by cats and parrots, until that time when she might become ethereal, pure spirit untainted by the woes of flesh, a phantom drifting with the winds. What fun she would have as a ghost. She could hardly wait.

—Elspeth Barker, O Caledonia

[antigonick]

She had discovered a beautiful new word in her Latin dictionary—stillicidium, the dripping of rain water from roofs and gables.

—Elspeth Barker, O Caledonia

[brimblebramble]

Was she in her 40s? - Skally, 16.06.26

[rubypomegranates]

"I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine."

Sharon Kay Penman "The Reckoning"

[calleido]

[boschintegral-photo]

Spring In The Countryside

[nemfrog]

Auricula or mountain cowslip. Temple of Flora. 1812. Robert John Thornton.

Internet Archive

[mournfulroses]

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[mournfulroses]

Takahama Kyoshi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[mournfulroses]

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Alexei Suvorin featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

[mournfulroses]

Hélène Cixous, from her book titled The Book of Promethea, originally published in 1983

[kaiserouo]

pov you see something alive after being alone for 40 years

[flowerytale]

May Sarton, from “Contemplation of Poussin”, Letters from Maine

[bones-ivy-breath]

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I'm torn in half. / I eat myself.

[morallyambiguous]

upstream, mary oliver; gravity and grace, simone weil; journal of a solitude, may sarton

[dk-thrive]

… and then I think of my solitude and realize again that I am truly married to it and without it would be even more nerve-racked and impossible than I am.

— May Sarton, The House by the Sea: A Journal (W. W. Norton & Company, 1977)

[bigartattack]

Untitled - Charles Martin

[zegalba]

Toshihiko Takamizawa's custom ESP angel guitar