meraki

𝐢𝐧 love 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞

[heresmeraki]

𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪 𝘢𝘮 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥

- griefmother

[existential-celestial]

Kim Addonizio, from “New Year’s Day,” in Tell Me

[fuwanek0]

Do care. Did ask. Plus I hope your day gets better.

[kosmogrl]

[rainreads-deactivated20250201]

"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

[mournfulroses]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

[phoebe-does]

sometimes love is just doing things without having to be asked, making a cup of tea for someone as they’re working, packing an extra lunch because you know they’re rushed for time. Love doesn’t have to be expressed in grand gestures, to me, the little gestures of love matter more.

[metamorphesque]

“in March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol 1: 1940-1956

[heavensghost]

you don’t have to belong everywhere

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

[weltenwellen]

Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

[metamorphesque]

― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[vampirefabio]

when 23 year olds say “im getting old” cause they get excited by mundane things…for the love of. we used to get excited by BOXES as toddlers. maybe we’re just reverting to our childlike joy did u ever think about THAT.

[siena-sevenwits]

I was having just this thought the other day, and it was kind of beautiful. The idea that coming into adulthood some of early childhood wonder is reclaimed - how often do we hear of that? But this is a true and common instance of it. Loving the ordinary is wonderful, and can coexist with loving the extraordinary.

[metamorphesque]

i don't pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.

― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

[pagewoman]

Botanical illustrations 

by  Beatrix Potter