oh, but darling,

nini. a writer with her head in the clouds, trying to not drown from below.

[girlnumbersix]

resilience is not sustainable we are not supposed to endure life we are supposed to live it

[insomniac-dot-ink]

the goal of hoarding notebooks as a writer is not to USE the notebooks but to feel like they could be used, a mental bolstering tactic such as dragons collecting gold but never spending it.

[sjoongki]

angst with no happy ending ???? in this economy ????

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“(Isn’t memory often about loneliness?)”

— David Bottoms, from “Black Horses,” Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)

[adampvrrish]

when richard siken said 'love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. it's like a religion. it's terrifying. no one will ever want to sleep with you' i became overwhelmed with distress and had to fight the urge to knaw my own fingers off

[redstar-winterorbit]

I miss conferences. I am sick of zoom. I want to get a canvas bag with a thin notebook and complimentary clucky plastic pens, a mug of shitty coffee and sit for two hours in a hotel event room watching people nerd out about their work.

[pigmenting]

something i wish i had realized earlier: you can write poems on the same subject more than once. you can write, paint, draw the same thing over and over if you want to. you can spend your whole life making art about oranges. i think i always felt this pressure to get it right the first time like i couldn’t go back and use that inspiration again. but you can. you can go back and revisit it. you can pick up the conversation again and again if you have more to say.

[cinemastuff]

cinema without people: Parasite (2019, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

[nyuble]

1995.07.21 ⫴ #HappyBaekhoDay (insp.)

[starryallnight]

Happy birthday, happy birthday I thank the one who made you be born Once again, happy birthday

Happy Baekho Day!

[hondmetsjaal]

i am not having a mental breakdown i am simply Evolving

[hondmetsjaal]

from Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

[kafk-a]

literally everybody who has ever been kind to me has made me kinder in return

[exitwound]

thinking about the quote “life is short. art is long” and how tragic it is that art lasts forever, but we don’t; how there will always be more books unread than read, more music unheard than heard, more paintings unseen than seen, and when i die, there will be countless more that i will never even have the opportunity to love and cry over and feel, because it certainly seems that there is more worth feeling in the world than time to feel it.

[soyoumusik]

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)

[books-and-cookies]

do you ever… get the urge to fake your own death and resurface under a new identity somewhere on an isolated island, where you have a cottage and live off the land and just read all day and drink wine and chill with the resident cottage cat that was just… there when you arrived?

[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

30-day journal prompt

One thing that you can try during the coronavirus quarantine is journaling. If you are still struggling and not knowing how to start, here are prompts for 30 days to reflect in you journal.

Day 1: What does happiness mean to you?

Day 2: What does your dream and ideal life look like?

Day 3: If today is your last day, what would you do?

Day 4: When you feel anxious, scared, what do you need the most?

Day 5: What is the most beautiful story you can imagine in this world?

Day 6: What are limiting beliefs that holding you back from achieving your dream?

Day 7: What have you taken for granted that you are very grateful for?

Day 8: What do you want to give yourself permission to do more of?

Day 9: What do you want to give yourself permission to do less of?

Day 10: What do you hide about yourself to make others comfortable?

Day 11: Which masks do you wear to fit in and be accepted?

Day 12: What would you want to say to your younger self?

Day 13: How do you want to be remembered in life?

Day 14: What would you want to say to your future self?

Day 15: Who is your biggest model or inspiration?

Day 16: If you could wish for anything, what would you wish for?

Day 17: What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Day 18: What do you need to forgive yourself for?

Day 19: How would you describe yourself to someone you never meet before?

Day 20: If you could choose a superpower, what would it be?

Day 21: What’s one thing in life you have to let go to reach your full potential?

Day 22: How did your past shape you to become who you are today?

Day 23: What kind of lifestyle do you want to live in next 5 years?

Day 24: What are the good habits you want to cultivate?

Day 25: Write down 10 goals you want to achieve by the end of this year.

Day 26: What are five things you want to remind yourself everyday?

Day 27: What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Day 28: What is vacation memory that bringing most joy?

Day 29: What are things that bothering you?

Day 30: When I’m telling my grandkids about what I did in my lifetime, what would I be telling them about?

[weltenwellen]

“I am used to being lonely but forever to be a stranger is a strange grief.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from section IV “The Unknown Continent,” of “So Far,” So Far So Good: Final Poems, 2014-2018