Feb 23, 2022
And she would perhaps have been a different person had she not suffered in the past.
Mary Balogh, from The Wood Nymph
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And she would perhaps have been a different person had she not suffered in the past.
Mary Balogh, from The Wood Nymph
bonnie: time to be a bitch the entire school: [cheers]
movie theatres opened back up here, with good restrictions, and our local imax for some reason is playing the LotR. And since @titillatingburlap and I are on March break this week, obvi we went to see Fellowship of the Ring as a matinee....and omfg...how are those movies so amazing???
like the last time I saw that movie in a THEATRE was when I was 9, and like...how did 9-year-old me even handle that much cinematic incredibleness???? Like imagine being a straight up child and seeing middle earth for the first time?? Watching the fellowship ascend that peak for the first time?? Scared but enthralled by orc makeup and the ringwraiths??? Getting hit directly with “if you want him come and claim him”, and “YOU SHALL NOT PASS” like right at the source??? I was about to be like ‘how did I not lose my whole entire mind’ except I definitely lost my whole entire mind and never looked back haha.
anyways, those movies are going to hold up forever, and so they very well should because they’re perfect <3 (also what a great movie to go back to the theatres with A+. I hope the other 8 people there had a good time too lol)
crystal castles always makes me wish i was fucking around in downtown toronto in -30 degree snowy weather wearing 100 layers and my big faux fur
Rosary
A birth, original sin
to then be blessed with the burden of
guilt.
Indoctrinated through scores of practice.
Forgive me Father, it’s been 2 years since my last confession,
and I have been a bad Catholic.
I’ve been making choices for my own, but I believe them to be right.
How many Hail Mary’s till I can remove this life in my stomach?
I still pray but,
my gods now have names I do not understand
and I give blessings on bay leaves.
My mother and her seven sisters do the same, its a secret
but they still go to confession;
are allowed to take the Eucharist.
I think I may have committed too many mortal sins to drink that wine again.
A Chicago Irish girl who went to Mass every Sunday.
To confession.
Pouring my soul on my knees, taking the antidote of rosaries and twisting the beads through my fingers
Adoration.
Never able to keep still but always learning.
My hands are not my own.
You taught me that.
Forgive others,
but if I want forgiveness myself I need to repent.
You taught me that.
I will never be perfect,
but I ought to strive for it.
You taught me that.
And I am grateful.
After everything I am grateful.
The guilt, however is ever present
How many Hail Mary’s do I have to say for that?
have the sudden urge to watch totally spies and that animated show with Mary Kate and Ashley as undercover agents or something
Every story has its chapter in the desert, the long slide from kingdom to kingdom through the wilderness, where you learn things, where you're left to your own devices.
Richard Siken, from Crush
'Life is always like that,' he said gently. 'We are what we are because of what has happened to us in the past. We cannot change that and we should not wish to. I love you as you are, Elizabeth.'
Mary Balogh, from A Chance Encounter