— Karen Russell, "The Ghost Birds" in The New Yorker (2021)
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869)
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— Karen Russell, "The Ghost Birds" in The New Yorker (2021)
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869)
being in yr 20s is abt experiencing the worst thing you can imagine & then having to go to the grocery store
[sobs until im physically ill] [buys greek yogurt] [repeat]
From How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett
some of you guys have GOT to remember about fun
like it’s ok… just be a little silly… be annoying… be embarrassing… you are alive
i’m realizing that i have so much time. i have time to grow my hair long. i have time to cut it all off and then to grow it back again. i have time to discover new hobbies and give up on things that no longer serve me. i have time to grow and change and travel and change my opinions and live differently than how i am now. i have so much time. take a deep breath and slow down
mastering being detached from everything yet being connected to everything at the same time. this is the secret to life i think
sorry i can’t come over, im ill with the human experience
poetry recommendations for december
The Untrustworthy Speaker by Louise Glück
Ashes and Blossoms by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Raw With Love by Charles Bukowski
Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz
The Language of the Birds by Richard Siken
A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Snowdrops by Louise Glück
The Road Away by Kim Sowol
From June to December: Summer Villanelle by Wendy Cope
“After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad,” by Elisa Gonzalez
Letter to a Lost Friend by Barbara Hamby
buy me a coffee
2023
SPEND AS MUCH TIME OUTDOORS AS HUMANELY POSSIBLE
THROW YOUR PHONE IN A LAKE
WRITE HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO YOUR FRIENDS
EXTRACT MEANING FROM YOUR DREAMS
PRACTICE SERENITY
CULTIVATE GOOD POSTURE
WEEP PROFUSELY
DO THE DISHES AS SOON AS YOU'RE FINISHED EATING
LEARN TO WHISTLE
WEAR PERFUME
“Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.”
— Kamla Bolanos
the answer to elitism is not anti-intellectualism. it is to stop defining art and literature the way white colonial supremacy does. like. ?
OCTOBER
henry ward beecher / tell me no secrets by joy fielding / greif by barbera crooker / anne of green gables by l.m. montgomery / two octobers by richmond lattimore / october by bobbi katz / something wicked this way comes by ray bradbury / a word for autmn by a.a. milne / october by robert frost
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October is my empire. Terror is part of me. 一 Tamura Ryūichi
1. Alfonsina Storni, 2. Cy Twombly, 3. William Stanley Merwin, 4. Cy Twombly, 5. Virginia Woolf, 6. Jorge Albericio, 7. Gala Mukomolova, 8. Andrei Tarkovsky, 9. Czesław Miłosz, 10. Andrei Tarkovsky, 11. Thomas Wolfe, 12. Andrei Tarkovsky, 13. Louise Glück
I find it endlessly fascinating that most humans just want someone who will get up in the middle of the night to close the windows with them when it starts down pouring. We want someone to dry our dishes after we wash them. We just want another person to do mundane activities with. We want to tell someone how the copy machine broke at work and we want to listen to how Debra is causing office drama again. We just want something so simple. We want human connection and honesty and to be bored with someone else instead of bored alone.
Robby Carney and LZ Granderson by Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve for Out Magazine , Feb 2020
ive worn heart shaped glasses for almost 4 years and they are just like my Thing and i love them so much and so often people will say shit like Oh Id Love To Wear Something Like That But I Could Never Pull It Off and like... babe no one can theyre heart shaped glasses u dont wear them to look flattering or stylish or whatever u wear them to make ur soul happy
stop worrying about whether u look Nice and start worrying about whether u look like You
i didnt articulate it well so i just wanna clarify. the point of this post was not "fuck the haters wear what you want" it was "fuck the idea that clothes and accessories exist to make you look good they should exist to make you happy"