Lydia Poe 💜

Just your local awkward faerie 🧚🏻‍♀️

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Magic

“I’m scared" 

And that was the first time I ever heard her mutter those two words…I would think she was fucking with me if it weren’t for the terror I caught in her eyes. She grabbed a nearby dandelion & began crumbling it in her hands, nervously.

"But you’re not scared of anything,” I declared. 

She looked up to the sky, avoiding my gaze, she tossed the bits of weeds to the ground. I could see her eyes swimming with tears that she clearly refused to let fall. She turned to face me, her expression becoming hard. With a feigned smile rising to her dimple, she responded, “Oh honey, I’m terrified” & finished it off with a playful wink.

I felt my body tensing…the confusion setting in. How? She wore fringe, spikes & dyed her hair every color. She looked at everything like she always had something to learn. She possessed an unparalleled charm, never failing to bail us out of trouble. During the summers she explored abandoned houses, she’d tell me about her pretty lovers that she would kiss under the pale moonlight. She would get lost in the woods just for fun. I’d find her cigarette butts trampled in the grass near my house, Her skin always adorned with bruises & band-aids. Her smile matched the sun, her hair wild as the weeds, & she would chase me until I ran out of breath. She was bold, she was alive, & she was free…or maybe not. 

I felt an ache weigh heavily in my chest, was I blind all this time? I looked her straight in the eyes & said, “But you sure don’t act scared…”

She rose to her toes, spinning in a dizzy circle, absorbing the sun & inviting the wind to kiss her skin. “Of course I don’t silly, nobody likes scared people…they’re such a draggggg” she said as she began to belly laugh & fall to her ass. 

& then I saw it…as I watched her laugh, instead of cry, her image blurring as it all unfolded right in front of my eyes. We’re all scared. Some of us choose to hide, go through the motions & pretend to be safe like we’re unable to die. But some of us, some of us are magic, fighting the lie, breaking the mold & living like at any moment we could die. 

I launched myself into the air, landing by her side, rolling through the grass, I saw everything in contrast colors & flashes; dimples, eyelashes, bruises, tears… magic. We couldn’t stop laughing, laughing because we knew, that she had taught me magic & I was becoming magic too. 

[virtuallyinsane-autumn]

[poeful]

[bakwaaas]

it’s both comforting and heartbreaking that over time you will slowly forget the little details of someone you once loved so deeply until their memory is just a hazy blur like a dream you once had and can’t quite remember anymore

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[happyheidi]

[ghibli-collector]

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how did you learn to write well?

well first you have to be a very sad child

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old fairy book covers

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“Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives.”

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Ingmar Hoogerhoud

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home by the sea.. .

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

But one autumnal evening, when the winds lay still in heaven, Morella called me to her bed-side. There was a dim mist over all the earth, and a warm glow upon the waters, and, amid the rich October leaves of the forest, a rainbow from the firmament had surely fallen.

– Edgar Allan Poe, from “Morella,” Poetry and Tales (Library of America, 1984)

[lone-nyctophile]

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museum of natural history, paris

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Elisabeth Elliot

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HOW THE APOSTLES DIED.

1. Matthew. Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, Killed by a sword wound.

2. Mark. Died in Alexandria, Egypt , after being dragged by Horses through the streets until he was dead.

3. Luke. Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous Preaching to the lost.

4. John. Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge Basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution In Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered From death.

John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison Island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve As Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully

5. Peter. He was crucified upside down on an x shaped cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die In the same way that Jesus Christ had died.

6. James. The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.

This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.

7. James the Son of Zebedee was a fisherman by trade when Jesus Called him to a lifetime of ministry.

As a strong leader of the church, James was beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial.

Later, the officer Walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and Knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.

8. Bartholomew. Also known as Nathaniel. He Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.

9. Andrew. He Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony.

His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words, "I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it". He continued to preach to his tormentors For two days until he expired.

10. Thomas. He Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the Subcontinent.

11. Jude. He Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.

12. Matthias. The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot. He was stoned and then beheaded.

13. Paul. He Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire. These letters, which taught many of the foundational Doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.

Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are indeed minor to compare to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles and disciples during their times For the sake of the Faith.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Pass on to encourage other Christians. Why Do we feel sleepy in Prayer, but stay awake through a 3 hour movie?

Why are we so bored when we look at the HOLY BOOK. But find it easy to read other books?

Why is it so easy to ignore a massage about God,

Yet we forward the nasty ones?

Why are Prayers getting smaller, but bars and clubs are expanding.

Why is it so easy to worship a celebrity, but very difficult to engage with God?

Make this message your contribution to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.