Caroline

[ladybugpdf-deactivated20250512]

been thinking a lot about anticipatory grief lately. i love you so much that i know losing you will devastate me. i haven't lost you yet but i already miss you. we still have time, but it won't be enough. i think about what i would say at your funeral, and say some of it to you now cause i need you to know how loved you are before you go. you will go where i cannot follow, but you will never really leave me. it won't make it hurt less but it is a part of healing somehow.

[oracle-fae]

dayris felix

[themindmovement]

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”

— Alice Walker, Living by the Word

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

whats it like to lock your fingers with someone you love

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

[titsay]

a place for dreaming

[a-cloak-deactivated20241120]

me during a readers block

i used to be a bookworm now I’m just a worm

[mtfoss]

You have to treat me niceys or I'll deploy the mechanism

[honeytuesday]

autumn is really like. i brought you some sunlight from when you were 10. didn't the world feel so bright to you then? i'll drench your hands in syrupy nostalgia, so everything you make is stained bittersweet. i'll ruffle your hair with an ice-kissed breeze--it'll be the kindest touch you've had in years. you finally feel like a part of something grander. i'm the last warm hand you hold before winter surrender.

[marypickfords]

i genuinely believe there’s a right time to watch certain movies so sometimes i’ll wait and wait until i know.

[susiedraws]

[batsandboba]

despite all my dread i am still just a girl in a bed

[perfectday1972]

via togamin211

[existentialdebbies]

[jb-blunk]

every woman 20 years older than you who you admire had to sit on the floor of her bathroom and wail more than once to get where she is these things have to happen will happen will be useful to you someday

[bakwaaas]

listening to music you loved when you were younger feels like a connection with your past self. like did she know I’d be listening to this exact same song so many years in the future? she couldn’t have imagined the person I am now. it feels like a hand reaching through time. like looking at the moon and realising that throughout history other people have looked at the same moon and felt the same way. a moment when the boundaries of time blur and it’s just me, enjoying music, connected with all the past versions of myself who are listening to this same song

[psikonauti]

Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)

[redahlia-writes]

there's something about women singing about wronged women in mythology while also relating to their struggles with that hint of unhinged in their voice that scratches my brain just right