#confessionalism

[a-book-is-a-garden]

‘I don’t see what women see in other women,’ I’d told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. ‘What does a woman see in a woman that she can’t see in a man?’ Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, ‘Tenderness.’

Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”

[literatureonthepage]

1967

[walkingthroughthisworld]

“The liberty which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the rigor and curse of the law, and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin, from the evil of afflictions, the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation: as also in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto Him, not out of slavish fear, but a child-like love and willing mind.”

The Second London Confession of Faith 21.1

[maryrw]

https://www.localhoneymidwest.com/gallery/oik8hyt4a590hz1ecj3nuj9kz74qro

Artist: MaryRuth Hurdle

[rogueonme]

Us, perhaps lost in the present still our past, it remains. Somewhere between the walls of our thoughts; there will be fractions of memories entering your mind and here, you will find me, heart beating, love still alive.

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[virgin-martyr]

I am alone in my room, between two worlds.

Sylvia Plath, November 1950; The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[poeticque]

Precisely because anonymity reigns—modern life needs gratuitous witnesses.

Jan Verwoert in You Make Me Feel Mighty Real.