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How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

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Embroidery Hoops

Shimunia on Etsy

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Rachel Whiteread Tate Britain, London

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The former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, who was known for his antiwar and ecological activism, died last Friday. Since 1955, Merwin published over two hundred works of poetry and prose in our magazine, that speak to the breadth and singularity of his monumental career.

Read more of W. S. Merwin’s work here. 

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I am, unfortunately, all panic and no disco

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Conjunction: Venus and Moon

Image credit: Roger Hutchinson & Michael DeWoody

[field-on-fire]

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Martha Graham

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And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver, “Late Fragment” (via anincantationofstories)

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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

— Howard Zinn, ‘A Power Governments Cannot Suppress’ (via scientificphilosopher)

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An agate stone that looks like a window to the ocean.

[theclassicsreader]

“I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was

alive for a little while.”

- Mary Oliver, from “Dogfish”

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