sei

half agony & half hope

[illegory]

L'amour.

[urgetocreate]

Christina Bothwell, Awakening, 2021, Cast glass, raku ceramic, oil paint

[hopepunk-humanity]

You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

[yvehattan]

Reading Dostoevsky is like talking to your 40 year uncle who barely made it past age 30 given his riotous life, but who therefore has life advice for every predicament and woe you'll ever know.

[wheatfalls]

The crucifixion didn’t put an end to suffering; what it meant is that God entered into suffering. He is a God of wounds. “No one escapes this life unmarked by suffering. We are broken people who live on a broken planet, and grief is part of the price we pay,” the author Philip Yancey has written. Last year I asked Philip, a follower of Jesus, why he thought God allows suffering, especially for the young and the innocent. He told me, “I don’t know why God allows for suffering. All I know is that God is on the side of the sufferer.” I don’t believe there’s a satisfactory answer to the questions posed by Ivan, and Dostoyevsky, to his credit, doesn’t try to provide one. The problem of evil, for him, has no cut-and-dry solution. The Brothers Karamazov doesn’t give us a solution to suffering but a different way to look at it, and a way of life we can choose to take in response: active, incarnational love. A kiss is all we have for now. But a kiss is enough for now.

Peter Wehner, "Why Does God Allow the Innocent to Suffer?"

[philosophors]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”

[vakravia]

Overall he's just pure INTJ material 👀 [crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky]

[jazbaaati]

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

[quotespile]

“If the chance ever comes to you to fall in love, grab it, every time. You might always live to regret it, but you won’t find anything to beat it, and you won’t know if it will come to you once more.”

— Joseph Heller, God Knows

[queenmoriarty]

If the compass breaks,

then follow your heart

And I hope it leads you

right back into my arms

[crowsfiles]

: ̗̀➛ uni is starting again, so here's a little more “motivational” moodboard for all of us struggling students <3

[archaic-stranger]

the agricultural engineering students

the smell of earth after it rains

growing plants in your windowsill

finding ways to minimize the environmental impact of agriculture

studying ancient agricultural techniques 

the overlap between technology and the natural world

a love for all green and growing things 

carefully diagramming irrigation systems to maximize efficiency

understanding both the risks and the benefits of genetically modified crops

related: engineering, botany

[distantvoices]

Camren Barden, Mammina Aker, Mohamed Seck, Serguelen Mariano by Andy Jackson for Twin Magazine April 2022

[deviika]

—Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

[almostreading]

Finishing up my review and getting some reading done

[quotespile]

“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.”

— Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet