Cruel Optimism

—Color my life with the chaos of trouble.— PhD researcher, teacher, and scroller.

[nervousyouthcupcake]

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages...”

― Hermann Hesse

[dissociativecollective]

Grieving, grieving, constantly grieving. I mourn what could have been, what should have been, what will not be, what I cannot save.

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[lovely-abeille-deactivated20241]

glass, irony and good, anne carson // margaret atwood // enough, suzanne buffam // linnea paskow // in conversation: kathleen turner, david marchese // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // where to begin, sue zhao // the stream of life, clarice lisepector

[petrichara]

‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner-deactiv]

Now you hang from my lips Like the Gardens of Babylon With your boots beneath my bed Forever is the sweetest con

Cowboy Like Me // T.S.

[metamorphesque]

Kissing in Vietnamese, Ocean Vuong

[medeae]

Anne Carson, ‘Wildly Constant’, London Review of Books

[trixie-and-ames]

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.”

Jack Kerouac Born #OnThisDay one hundred years ago #jackkerouac #readersofinstagram #beatgeneration https://www.instagram.com/p/CbBmvNygyvW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bebopgritlit]

Poetry and writing or poetic writing can find inspiration in the oddest ugly and turn it into something somewhat beautiful or astonishngly magical.

It is to truly see the world and see where redemption can be found, and the connection we have to everything can heal us.

The question is why are we broken in the first place? What is the meaning of our time in this life? Telling and listening stories is how we find our place. This is where the answer lies.

[underthecounterculture]

Gerald Nicosia: In Search of Jack Kerouac in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness

Gerald Nicosia: In Search of Jack Kerouac in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness

You would have to be dead or in a coma to have missed the fact that March 12, 2022, marked the centenary of the birth of writer and lonesome traveller Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road. To mark the occasion, Leon Horton talks to the writer and scholar Gerald Nicosia, author of Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century, Beat Scrapbook,and the sublime and authoritative Memory Babe: A Critical Biography…

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[wandererinside]

#eyes #jaguareyes #beatpoet #beatpoetry #beatpop #westernhaiku #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #ighaiku #haikus #haiku #haikusofinstagram #igers #hereyesthough #poetry #poem #poetryisnotdead #summerhaiku #poemas #poema #oterosilva #wordporn #haïku #simplethreelines #westernpop https://www.instagram.com/p/CqKo3T0sPBa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xxmrswayxx]

[rosariumpartone]

quote from Pan’s Flute ⚜︎

[philosophybits]

“I do not wish you much happiness — it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people’s philosophy, I will simply repeat: ‘Live more’ and try somehow not to be too bored…”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

[perfectquote]

“You don’t find your worth in someone. You find your worth within yourself and then find someone who’s worthy of you. Remember that.”

— Unknown