HANNAH KIRKELIE

I would love only a wild thing...

[prophetic-memory]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[red-literature]

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, tree, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Estes

[heavenpureheart]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Patrick Dundon, from "Gratitude"

[sicknessinmotion]

KILL ME IF IT'S WORTH IT; ON FLESH.

silas denver melvin // ethel cain // george bataille // blythe baird // margaret atwood // nicole homer // emily palermo.

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

L. A. Johnson, from "Birthmark"

[swagvo1d]

[389]

Are You Coming? - Trina Teoh

[heavensghost]

To heal the wound you first have to stop touching it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know, rivers catching on fire used to be a regular occurrence.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Boring, even. Mundane. People just accepted that rivers had oil slicks floating on them that could be lit by somebody throwing their cigarette in the wrong place. Cities had regular protocols in place on what to do when the river caught on fire.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The modern environmentalism movement wasn’t just started by hippies you know. Regular people cared about this stuff because their rivers caught on fire and existing near farms gave them cancer and by the 1970s they weren’t even seeing that much economic benefit from it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you don’t live in a world where rivers regularly catch on fire it’s because of stuff like the clean water and air acts. A lot of rivers in the US that in the first half of the 20th century regularly caught on fire are now safe to swim and fish in.

A lot of environmental damage is reversible if we act. We’ve got a lot of success stories like this actually. A lot of formerly endangered species have come back, fish have returned to American rivers, the ozone layer is being restored.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen next with the environment but I hold out at least a little bit of hope. Because rivers used to catch on fire and now for the most part they don’t.

[uglyfruit]

[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say "It's so hot and the sky's so blue", "I want people to know me", "but it's so hard to tell them". ]

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, from "Tuesday"

[weltenwellen]

bell hooks, All About Love

[kafk-a]

"Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It's a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I'll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it's the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don't like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it's just a really excellent pastime."

— Dean Spade, from his essay For Lovers and Fighters