Moonstruck Crazy

"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up ships"

[mhwack]

Margaret Atwood

[fcirfolk]

Joan Didion, Play it as it Lays

[aidashakur]

I like being remembered in small ways

[shisasan]

January 24, 1971 Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

[skylark-234]

[terrorignitis]

Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

[wierdbutfuckinbeautiful]

As Frost is best conceived

By force of its Result-

Affliction is inferred

By subsequent effect-

— Emily Dickinson

[lettersfromafairy]

There are times when the world seems indifferent, but that doesn't mean you're indifferent to the world. Your existence continues to leave marks, even if you can't see them now.

Letters from a Fairy

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Today, When I Could Do Nothing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[wordx]

[weltenwellen]

To Be Alive Gregory Orr

[thelma-s-diaries]

𝐢 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝; 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧...

𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐟, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲,1931

[dumblr]

tumblr and i are in a toxic relationship. i leave. i come back. we repeat. nobody learns.

[1110-pm-on-the-clock]

11:10

[magnetictapedatastorage]

im still on the library grind jsyk. i still don't understand why it isn't getting the same love. its free books, movies, music, and events... if your town has one, or a nearby town has one, get a library card asap. its a wonderful thing to have. a lot of them offer services you might not expect, like classes in financial planning or job hunting or even cooking and languages :) and of course, lots and lots and lots of books!!!

when you have very little space, the fact that you are only borrowing the books is a bonus, you don't need to find a means of permanent storage for them. the variety, for example taking out a different cookbook every month, can really keep things interesting.

its also an "excuse to get out" that doesn't inherently cost anything. believe me, there is a big difference in experience between just picking something on the internet to stream vs going to the library, browsing the DVD rack, picking something totally new to you, and giving it a try :)

i'm not much of a fiction fan lately, but nothing is more relaxing than a big coffee-table book of photography, or a guide to some new skill like pottery. there's a quietness to it. nobody ever dies in a book of pottery, can't say that about newspapers or novels lol. and of course you may suprise yourself if you pick up something intellectually "heavy", with how satisfying it is to finish a gigantic tome and understand some facet of the world in a new way.

so if you don't have a library card, go ahead and get one, this is your sign to do it asap. they are warm, welcoming, quiet places in what can sometimes be a cold, loud world.

oh, and no one will be trying to sell you anything. that's a bonus.

[letsbeapoemtogether]

- Anna Akhmatova, from The complete poems of Anna Akhmatova; "March Elegies"

"If you were a star, I would gaze by the window till dawn..

[pieceofpoems]

December is slipping off my hand like melting snow.

-Sadiya Ajaz