You love the light so much? I do, I love its hopes

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[harunohini]

On constellations and humans

—@seizethehistory

—John Berger, and our faces, my heart, brief as photos

—@aergloenchantress

[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.

[harunohini]

ursula k le guin book rec for a person who hasn't read any of her works yet?

[maryolive]

The Days by Jon Anderson

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[salmonella-warrior]

really everyone you love has something miserably wrong with them or an obvious flaw that won't ever be fixed but like it's up to you what kind of person you can and cannot deal with. someone in my family has anger issues which I can handle and diffuse with no problem, but a person who can't tolerate yelling could not be close to him. another person I know is very anxious & needs constant reassurance and she gets along famously with gentler and more straightforward people than myself, but I can't handle being second guessed all the time. someone who is loosey goosey with their morals wouldn't bother me, but a person with a profound sense of justice makes me feel afraid of getting on their bad side. none of these traits actually make someone a bad person & just because there are personalities I can't handle doesnt mean I'M a bad person either. litany against callout posts for stupid shit and simple incompatibilities we all have to live on this earth together & need to learn how to deal with each other

[salmonella-warrior]

actually to add to this point having one person leave you due to a flaw they cant tolerate may make you feel fundamentally unlovable but i promise theres a person out there who will look at the same thing in you and find no fault with it

[metamorphesque]

Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

[weltenwellen]

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

forgive the version of you that didn’t know any better

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

forgive the version of yourself that knew better but did it anyway. forgive every version of yourself. we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

[notesbyash]

think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

[notesbyash]

every nolan film is about time. it winds its way through his filmography; it is fractured in memento, distorted in inception, expanded in interstellar, reversed in tenet.

every hopper painting is about stillness. it is found in every brushstroke; at dusk in automat, at dawn in morning sun, at noon in office in a small city, at night in nighthawks.

i have a friend who orbits ideas of power, another who delights in the prosaic and the plain. one weaves around systems and structures, another returns always to wonder at the sea.

there are other elements of course - our lives cannot be measured by single concepts no matter how large they may be - but time and again i think we return to the things that fascinate, the things that intrigue, the things we cannot quite tear ourselves away from. the themes of our lives.

[weltenwellen]

Victoria Chang, from "Untitled #5, 1998", With My Back to the World

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “In This New Life”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “Even If”, Instructions for Traveling West

[papayajuan2019]

i love the world so much. why do i often forget this

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[incidentalcomics]

Poetry Comics Month, Day 17: Sky

[bnmxfld]

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

[sage-hazeline]

how do you reconnect to life after being disconnected for so long

[creatinghelen]

one step at a time! follow breadcrumbs of what you used to love... often you'll find yourself there <3