gentle diary

danielle ☼ 31, she/her i believe in documenting this one wild and precious life.

[gentlediary]

👋🏼 making an introduction post is so hard for me - idk where to start, what to include, or how much to share...

I guess I'll start with the basics. I'm about to turn 32 in december; I'm a mid-millennial who's still hanging around on tumblr. I recently deleted all my other social media because it was destroying my dopamine receptors - we'll see how long that lasts for, though.

I'm a school counselor with a lot of student loan debt. I have anxiety. I like to write words and make art but sometimes I get distracted by other things and I don't do the things I know I love to do. I love being a lesbian.

likes: sunshine, pine trees, clean sheets, pitbulls (mine specifically), secure attachments, old friendships, drinking water out of mason jars, soy candles, journals, making lists, squishmallows, sitcoms, marijuana, French press coffee, reading, little craft projects

dislikes: capitalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia/transphobia, ableism, ageism, violence in tv/movies, when my plants die for no good reason

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[cottaqecore]

julia ryan

[evergreendrip]

[jasminei]

[perfectquote]

“With the right music, you either forget everything or you remember everything.”

— Unknown

[sorrrowfull]

[huariqueje]

Unknown , Morning Coffee - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -

[the-cricket-chirps]

Vincent van Gogh

Kingfisher by the Waterside

Paris, July-August 1887

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from “A Meeting” in The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

[elrxssell]

[unusual-suspects]

[northwindow]

Ia Genberg (translated by Kira Josefsson), from The Details

[cottaqecore]

source

[museiums]

artist: margaret jeane

[homosexualbarbie]

isabelle vermeersch

[binxbartholomewbones]

In the absence of hibernating until Ostara, store bought spring will have to do.