#amanda oliver

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

I do not believe anyone is homeless, which is to say that so long as people are alive they have a home within themselves, and I recognize that this home may be a precious anchor. Unhoused people may also have a physical home somewhere that they are unable to safely or comfortably return to and/or have strong memories of or ties to a home. I do not wish to lessen that connection.

Amanda Oliver • Overdue: Reckoning With The Public Library

[intimatum]

“I’ve been thinking about this kind of love lately—when it comes in parts or moments or memories or fragments and not quite a fit, not quite a whole. The kind that often arrives as a light to help identify a hole, even though we want it to be just a light. I’ve been aching, lately, for the whole kind. The enveloping, part of something, chest tight, chest warm, chest open whole. With the learning each other, the cooking, the laughing, the driving and errands, the hesitations and questions and big gives and scared takes before the all-in.”

Amanda Oliver

[intimatum]

Amanda Oliver, Fourteen Women Playing One Guitar: Taking my broken heart to see Ragnar Kjartansson’s “Woman in E” S02E04 “Episode 4”, Fleabag (2019)

[racingnews]

NASCAR announces executive team after Steve O’Donnell takes over

[davidpotash]

Public Libraries: Overdue For A Close Look

Several years ago I worked with a librarian at our college, crafting a strategic plan for the library, when he said something that made me sit up and take notice. “Everyone says nice things about a library, but no one will tell you anything real.” I pressed him, curious about his frustration. Libraries are hard to figure out, he explained. People like to have them around. But no one really gives…

View On WordPress

[domesticflight]

This was the year I owned a bed again. The year I returned to teaching in an elementary school, tired and overextended, resentful and broke…

On our first date we went for a walk with a bag of bird seed my mother gave me for Christmas that was supposed to bring good luck if you spread it on New Year’s morning. I wanted to walk and leave some in a few different places, but he took the bag from my hands and dumped the whole thing under a tarp. I did not have to be told and told again when someone does not want me.

[boysbygirls]

Tomorrow’s Priorities. George Mowlam at Models1, photographed by Renee De Groot. Styling by Delphine Lesiewicz. Grooming by Amanda Oliver. George wears Shirt by Mint Vintage, Trousers by Lands End.

View the full feature here.

[boysbygirls]

Tomorrow’s Priorities. James Rose at Select Model Management and George Mowlam at Models1 , photographed by Renee De Groot. Styling by Delphine Lesiewicz. Grooming by Amanda Oliver. James wears Trousers by Lands End. George Mowlam wears Shirt by Mint Vintage, Trousers by Lands End. 

View the full feature here.