[ahotknife]

YOU don’t have to be perfect to be loved. but I do

[sacred-portal]

[angelicdewdrop]

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[queerpontmercy]

when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”

[metamorphesque]

— Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[peef]

-Sam Jumex, 2023

[berrytart]

Vegetable/Fruit Papyrus made in Germany

eggplant/kiwi/persimmon/strawberry/cucumber/white asparagus

[metamorphesque]

"I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it. We all feel alienated because of this continuous violence in the world. We feel alone, but we feel also together. So we resort to poetry as a possibility for survival. However, to say I survived is not so final as to say, for example, I'm alive. We wake up to find that the war survived with us."

Dunya Mikhail, Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet

[mrsterlingeverything]

Wouldst thou like to live above averagely

[xcathenny]

[depsidase]

[la-d7]

no one supports you like an internet friend you never met

[lamignonette]

[theocseason4]

cinnamon bread recipe

[seravph]

may god forgive my wretched sins (spent money)

[snailune]

oooohhhh ok. the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself

[cannibalchicken]

[marsupials-of-mars]

Everyone on tumblr has Conditions. maladies. I log onto tumblr and my mutuals are unwellposting. Conditions I didn't even know existed and sound like dark curses but I will see a post from friend like "died about 60% today, fine now. Made egg on toast #yummytoast". There are so many people in this world with life experiences