The Lily Book

Gemini Sun. Libra Moon. Scropio Rising.

[surqrised]

“We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

[mournfulroses]

Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[thelilybook]

5.10.25 Food Allergy Awareness Walk

Lifechanging.

[thelilybook]

05.09.25 Did I get that right?

Probably not..

[thelilybook]

I am grateful for you regardless.

I am grateful for knowing love.

I am grateful that there was more good than bad. - And that is not romanticized. Because when it was bad, it felt enormous which is misleading and at times blinding.

[thelilybook]

Venus retrograde isn’t a punishment; it’s time moving backward to help you carve through the layers of ego to get back to what really matters — back to your truth. 

Aliza Kelly

An Introduction to Venus Retrograde

Because why let Mercury get all the attention, er, panic?

[thelilybook]

"The relationship is very much a partnership.. and there has to be a feeling of teamwork" - Ryan Libbey

[thelilybook]

"Just pay attention to what's in your own ring fence like because probably what you got is wonderful, you just got to nurture it, support it" - Ryan Libbey

At 37:34

[thelilybook]

A partner who wants to hear what I have to say - ( not wants to hear what I have to say only to provide solutions or fight me on how I feel (by telling me that something isn't a big deal -- and missing the mark on why I'm upset.. or being incorrect (even if correct) on what they think isn't or is the big deal (of what I'm upset about)). Hear me without diminishing or minimizing how I feel. Let me be upset, let me feel, let me speak. Let me feel safe, safe to voice whatever I need. I would not be bringing up something if I did not care. To feel safe and heard opens the doors to future instances where it isn't a blow-up because I know that that space needed to voice and the feeling of mattering (not a word).

The need not to be rebutted. My feelings and experiences are not up for debate. They are valid. I am valid. Unless I don't mean anything and both parties can agree that I do mean something.

A partner who listens; not - 'listens' and reacts. -- If I'm coming to you with a problem, I'm already upset. If I'm coming to you - then I care. It ain't all about you, I'm bringing a problem - a we problem.

We resolve it or we don't. You listen or you don't. I am able to voice myself or I don't. You are calm or you aren't. You choose not to react or you don't. You listen and remain calm or you don't. You see me or you don't. You provide a safe space while you listen or you don't. You provide a safe space, listen, hear, see me, etc. to allow me to relax because I know you're providing that to be safe and vulnerable and able to come to you or you don't.

[seabeck]

Snowy morning

[seabeck]

A misty road

[poketcg-art]

Cyndaquil -- Teeziro

[matialonsorphoto]

solo

instagram @matialonsor

[thelilybook]

You said you hardly ever ask anything of me

(your words not mine,

and your experience also not mine). [That isn't to say that isn't valid - not what I'm saying]

And that what you asked, I couldn't answer Well,

How could I say what you asked me to say

or rather why would I say what you wanted me to say The answer is layered and I could have said what you wanted me to say, simply as that and just have left But if I said what you wanted and simply thought, it would've been a lie. And it wasn't something I was going to say just for sakes Your experience therefor takes me as someone who perhaps is being difficult, perhaps is being a dick, perhaps doesn't want to answer. It's not that I don't want to answer. - Simply and not simply, she could not answer. She did believe him. So no, there was no inkling as she had told him. The later was the truth. The later he heard but not the first.

[rosesofthetwilight]

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