My visual diary

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[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]

[shisasan]

December 1, 1928 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

[googifs]

I can’t stop watching it.

[frosty3thefrostening]

For fans of chocolate and fans of Particle Annihilation Beam technology

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

[babyratparty]

me: oh my sauce is missing sometjing. help

garlic:

[northwindow]

Terrance Hayes, from So to Speak

[firstfullmoon]

you can listen to him read the poem here

[allsadnshit]

“Growing Around Grief”

Lois Tonkin, 1996

[nighthawkes]

your daily walks wrapped

you soaked up 10,985 minutes of sunshine, rain, and other weather

you walked past 4,073 individuals you would describe as the most beautiful person in the world

you bore witness to 23% more of your local area than last year—good job!

you saw 3 of the weirdest dogs you will ever see in your life

you noticed 18 people visibly, tenderly in love with each other

you smelled 243 flowering plants & shrubs

you drank 267 delicious beverages

you were kissed invisibly and imperceptibly by 117 bumble bees and butterflies

you were witness to 87,441,289 gorgeous leaves

[weltenwellen]

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[vandijkwrites]

Please do things to strengthen your attention span. It stresses me out so much when people just accept their small attention spans and cater to them without any acknowledgment that they are making it worse by doing that.

There is a reason attention spans are worse now and it didn’t just happen by chance. Media and the internet designed it that way and we went with it because it was easier.

Some of us with ADHD and brain fog need to meet ourselves where we’re at and exercise our attention span by watching a two minute video instead of a one minute video. Some of us need to sit down and read a novel with our phones turned off.

Wherever you’re at, just realize that not doing things that feel hard will keep making your attention span worse.

[firstfullmoon]

Sharon Olds, “Late Poem to My Father”

[firstfullmoon]

Caylin Capra-Thomas, “Search History Sad”

[on-poetry]

I’m here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in. I’m here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.

“Spoiler” by Hala Alyan, The New Yorker

[cache-e]

“Had my silence really been a silence, or a loud voice that is mute?”

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Manuel Bandeira, from “This Earth, That Sky.”

[conflictingheart]

[coquelicoq]

#every time I see this picture I am briefly overwhelmed#this piece of art outlived its context and milieu#but. but. in reality there is no such thing#because art is made anew with every glance. it comes to life. awakens laughing#and time compresses. softens. the past is not so much a mystery if we remember we weren’t the first to dance.#this is what art is for#this is what it can do#it doesn’t only speak to us of our own humanity#it reminds us that humanity is shared. this girl isn’t dancing in a mirror. she is dancing with a friend.#paintings don’t simply show us the world. they help teach us how to live in it. (via @robotmango)

[juncst]

[frenchsiren]

[ID: A white piece of paper on which is written: I’m down in the garden. I love you. Here’s coffee.]