the wind, the bird flying away

I don’t want to be demure or respectable. I was that way, asleep, for years. That way, you forget too many important things. How the little stones, even if you can’t hear them, are singing. side-blog: birdsandcc

[petaltexturedskies]

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese" from Dream Work (originally published in 1986)

[apocryphics]

[avianawareness]

Wild Lovebirds of Maui

[warmfigure]

[kafk-a]

Eliza Griswold

[theorangepdf]

each summer has a different taste 

[theorangepdf]

im so thankful anne carson wrote “i can feel that other day running underneath this one like an old videotape.” today a year ago, today 5 years ago, i can feel that day but i can also taste it and smell it and roll it in my hands , its contortions and distinct shape. 

[12h51mn]

favorite films featuring a scene with a mosquito net

The Terrorizers (1986), dir. Edward Yang

Cemetery of Splendour, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2015)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2010)

A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984), dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), dir. Tran Anh Hung

Insiang (1976), dir. Lino Brocka

A Brighter Summer Day (1991), dir. Edward Yang 

I don’t want to sleep alone (2006), dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

[kafkasapartment]

Still life with a plate of onions, early January, 1889. Vincent van Gogh. Oil on canvas.

[maybuds]

from “Brian and Roger Eno: ‘Capitalists want you to be constantly stimulated’”

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[weltenwellen]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

[dk-thrive]

It’s that instead of worrying over “too much of a good thing” in a world overfull with shitty things, we might instead ensure that there are too many good things, too.

— Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[fravery]

Painting by Mike Hall

[metamorphesque]

musings on loneliness

sylvia plath, nickie zimov, charles bukowski, masashi kishimoto, haruki murakami, holly warburton, charles bukowski, the beatles, nigel van wieck, marta zamarska, sylvia plath, van gogh

if you like this, you can buy me a ☕

[mitskey]

mary oliver, 'august'/ vincent van gogh, 'at eternity's gate'

[hineinihineini-moving]

Deer On the Side of the American Highway by Devin Kelly

[mademoiselleclipon]

mole to mole - john yuyi

[dsunearthed]

Columbus, OH, 2006