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mon petit journal

[aftonfamilyvalues]

[ahududulugazoz]

[cheruib]

missing home a little extra today

[mournfulroses]

Sinéad O'Connor, from her book titled "Rememberings," originally published in June 2021

[bakwaaas]

just a girl who loves flowers

[floraa-spring]

Oh no oh no I'M Falling LOVÉ !

[solestella]

[mournfulroses]

André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. 2: 1914-1927

[letsswaytogether]

“I have so much to say to you that l am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[nixscriptum]

[mournfulroses]

André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. 2: 1914-1927

[nousrose]

The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.

Open to Desire

Mark Epstein

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— fatima aamer bilal; coffin heart? bury me.

[metamorphesque]

musings on touch the hand has twenty-seven bones, natalie diaz haiku #11, tathev simonyan the touch, anne sexton isn’t the air also a body, moving?, natalie diaz ulysses, james joyce you are jeff, richard siken lady, i will touch you with my mind, e. e. cummings to your hands…, vahan teryan (translated by tathev simonyan) state of emergency, joy sullivan i was reading a scientific article, margaret atwood one of those kisses, viggo mortensen

[petitworld]

Tipsoo Lake, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA by Protik Hossain

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from "Personal Writings," originally published in 2020

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust