What Is My Life ?

[feral-ballad]

Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

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You can't destroy our faith.

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[fairydrowning]

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could."

– Louise Erdrich, "The Painted Drum"

[yms1]

نحن لا ندري أيِّ أرض، وأيِّ قلب، وأيِّ قرار هو الخير لنا، لكنَّنا نؤمن بأنَّ الخير فيما اختاره اللَّه لنا.

We do not know which land, which heart, and which decision is good for us, but we believe that good is in what God has chosen for us.

[weltenwellen]

Jenny George, from "The Artist"

[soracities]

e.e. cummings, from “(listen)”, in 73 Poems, Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[luthienne]

This is a spring of shambles. Of meadows slow to flower, of fire sooting the underbrush, and, love, I am lonely as a bear. I am no good at bearish things. Fish or forage, my hands are too small and slow to clip the salmon thick in the heat of spawn.       I do not know where berries are or honey or campers or the greening branch. I am tired of mounting this hill alone.       Love, how do I gain what was lost in winter?

Donika Kelly, from Bestiary: Poems; “Love Poem: Donika”

[makkleyn]

📍Marrakesh

[ayasafia]

Sunday Evening by JoeLius DuBois Porter

[dirbyagnesvarda]

Starlings in winter Mary Oliver

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naomi campbell by peter lindbergh for azzedine alaïa, 1992

[de-salva]

COLTRANE (1962) / From the Twen magazine

© Robert Freeman

[eternal-gardens]

O Allāh! Cover my errors and reassure me in times of difficulty.

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“I loved hearing you talk. It focused and soothed me. You had the radiant certainty common to people who’ve found God and found God for real, people who don’t even care if you believe, because they know they’ve got a direct line to the truth.”

— Meg Charlton, from “To the Woman with the Restraining Order,” Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, ed. Colleen Kinder (Algonquin Books, 2022)