In Equal Measure: Shite & Fantastic!

[inchwormy]

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[psikonauti]

Arthur Rackham ( England ,1867-1939)

Pandora’s Box, 1922

[audientvoid13]

“The Rabbat” by Annie Stegg Gerard

[weltenwellen]

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Lost”, Sin: Selected Poems

[bedtime-bun]

by Beatrix Potter

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Tom Kittens Garden by Beatrix Potter

[excitementshewrote]

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Lucille Clifton, from The Collected Poems of L. C.; “The Death of Crazy Horse,”

[wolflowerrrr]

I want my blog back..I'm not assigning blame.

[soft-butch-cassidy]

doing anything is hard when you’re depressed but sitting around in apathy ain’t gonna help. get the fuck up. seriously. do one thing. open the curtains. dust your monitor. throw away those leftovers in the fridge from last week. clean the bathroom sink. its an ocean of bullshit and you need to swim. break the cycle of misery and guilt and apathy so you can get better. its hard. do it anyway. recovery starts with breaking the cycle. baby steps, but steps.

[soft-butch-cassidy]

it’s not ableist or anything to tell someone with depression to do something. look. it’s hard. it sucks. but you wont get better if you don’t do anything. depression is a cycle. you dont have energy to do things, so things dont get done, so you feel guilty, which makes you more depressed, with less energy, and so on. but you can’t recover if you dont start. you can’t get help without getting it. that’s a verb! you need to do it! do something! break the cycle and you’ll start to recover. it’s a long, difficult process, and you can’t do it alone, and you might need medication and therapy, but you can’t get on the road to recovery if you’re staying inside with the curtains closed. you can’t even open the curtains without taking baby steps. you can’t take baby steps until you stand up. so stand up.

[chopped-peace-collection]

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“The consolation to hold you tightly clasped in my arms – it lulled the pain of soul and heart and I tried to put all my endless love, faith and strength into my caresses.”

— Czarina Alexandra, from a letter to Czar Nicholas II wr. c. December 1916

[backwoods-mlm]

underrated date ideas

thrift shopping

pumpkin carving

playing hide and seek in your home

drawing each other

nature walks

exploring abandoned buildings

local diners or shops

grave rubbing (respectfully)

home photography modelling

catch and release fireflies

see a local play

go to an animal shelter

visit an antique store

sit out and watch the thunderstorm

watch for bats after dark

tell ghost stories

build a blanket fort

paint together

pick wildflowers

forage for mushrooms

go grocery shopping after midnight

read books to eachother

[assyrianjalebi]

1001 Nights (1998), dir. Mike Smith, art by Yoshitaka Amano

[oldpaintings]

Baudelaire’s Les Fleur du Mal, 1900/07 by Carlos Schwabe (German, 1866–1926)