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and do not lose this strange habit of having faith in life

[firstfullmoon]

Jonathan Wells, “April Morning”

[doitlikeachic]

Lunch in Tajikistan.

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[elorablue]

Fisherman & Cats by zoonabar on Flickr.

[loveridden1999]

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

[loveridden1999]

everyone say thank you toni morrison

[suhana-safar-deactivated2024031]

[superstarfighter]

a murakami protagonist day*

do the dishes

make your bed

read a book in silence

get the groceries for one or two meals

have a beer

go for a walk

(get a phone call from nobody)

follow a cat through the neighborhood

do the laundry

change your sheets

sit on your couch and listen to a full album

take a shower

sit on your balcony at night

go to a diner alone and have a bite to eat

watch people from afar

take a train to the next town

call an old friend

clean your room or house

take a nap

have a cup of tea

paint or draw

air out the room

stretch or do yoga

(* murakami’s descriptions of his protagonists’ day to day lives always seem so mundane and calming to me that I thought I’d list a few activities that fit right in and might calm me, too.)

[petaltexturedskies]

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver, from "In Blackwater Woods" in American Primitive

[metamorphesque]

These lines (first from the films, thereafter from the books) taught me something profoundly essential about how to be there for a friend, a lover, or a loved one when they are consumed by despair, weighed down by grief, or overwhelmed by the weight of mental torment. It taught me that some burdens are sacredly personal; untransferable tasks that each of us must face in our own time and way.

Yet, while we cannot take their pain or carry their burden for them (no matter how much we wish we could), there is something else we can do. While we cannot lift their burden, we can lift them. We can carry their weary body, their weary heart, as they bear the weight of their pain. In doing so, we offer them a sanctuary — a place of care and safety, where they can begin to confront their hurt without the fear of being alone in its gaze.

While the pain may be theirs to bear, the journey through it need not be traveled in solitude.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, I love you.

[djglory]

[shisasan]

October 29, 1912 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the afterword

[scorpionlafemme]

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

sometimes the only closure you will get is knowing that everything you did was done earnestly and out of love

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[thereignclub-trc]

What you do in private, shows in public. Reading shows in a conversation. Your diet shows in energy. Your discipline shows in confidence. Your focus shows in your results. You are what you cultivate when no one is watching. Prioritize your time & focus on discipline/consistency.