“what was the most pain you have ever felt”
healing from someone, i once thought i would heal with

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“what was the most pain you have ever felt”
healing from someone, i once thought i would heal with
my favorite form of love is being loved without feeling like i was begging for it
Henri Biva (French, 1848-1928) - A Woodland Lake
Kathryn Cherry - Fish, Fruits, and Flowers (ca. 1923)
Peder Mork Monsted - Frederiksberg Have (palace garden), 1923
Ercole Magrotti (Italian, 1890–1967) - Pueblo de pescadores
Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie
You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality
My favorite part about being sapphic is when the things I love about other women become things I love about myself. One day I was tracing another woman’s stretch marks in a dim bedroom light. And then, seemingly by accident, I was doing it to myself in my bathroom mirror. I loved the feeling of a full hand of flesh when I grabbed a woman’s hips, and then mine didn’t need to be so skinny anymore. I looked at a woman’s lower stomach pudge and thought it was so soft and cute, then never wanted a flat stomach again. Loving women can be so healing when you come from a world that doesn’t.
that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing
my personal list of greek myth retellings that are actually good and do something interesting with the myth:
The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Christa Wolf
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason
Here the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Jeanette Winterson
Achilles, Elizabeth Cook
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald
Averno, Louise Glück
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Antigonick, Anne Carson
Oresteia, Robert Icke
Antigone, Jean Anouilh
Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl
Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr
Los Reyes, Julio Cortázar
Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell
O Brother Where Art Thou, Coen Brothers
honorable mention to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia which doesn't count on a technicality
updated version includes:
An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare
War Music, Christopher Logue
Molora, Yaël Farber
Medea, Christa Wolf
Black Orpheus, dir. Marcel Camus
and honorable mentions extended also to Nina MacLaughlin's Wake Siren: Ovid Resung and Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, which don't count due to the technicality of being Ovid
“We are mistaken when we look forward for death; the major portion of death has already passed: whatever years are behind us are already in death’s hands.”
— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius (via philosophybits)
Certainly he'd wanted to leave it behind, but that was the whole point. It would have been there. Even if he'd avoided it for the rest of his life, it would have still been a kind of anchor.
Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Johan Ericson - Scene from Marstrand on the west coast of Sweden (1914)