for a love of learning

returning to myself what was once lost

[isl-equ-ay]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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[julytrees]

Tina Turner captured dancing in the garden of her fomer villa ‘Anna Fleur’ within the South of France, ca. 2000.

[planetmagic]

[04k96]

[darflores]

Good morning!

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[funeral]

Meaningless Suffering: Traumatic Marginalisation and Ethical Responsibility, ed. David M. Goodman and M. Mookie C. Manalili

[funeral]

On the surface, avoidance, minimization, distancing, splitting, and attempting to place a positive value on painful experiences may look like dreadful self-deception. In reality, however, this self-regulation of negative affect performs a life-saving function. For precisely that reason, trauma patients find it dangerous, even impossible, to give up these survival strategies and self-healing measures, even though they block creativity and growth and lead eventually to stagnation and decay. [ . . . ] The sacrifice of one's self-protection strategies and the loosening of one's rigid defense mechanisms are dreadfully painful and threatening processes, for they uncover old wounds associated with safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy.

Ursula Wirtz, Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation

[funeral]

Merle Fossum and Marilyn Mason, Facing Shame

[1anonyymous1]

tumblr is Iike the smoking area for social media

[perfectday1972]

i'm like a stack of unread books but a girl

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[toiich]

Drink Your Coffee (1986), dir. Éric Rohmer

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