worried heart

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible. ("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder--"Well, how much?"--and when the answer comes--"With my whole heart"--we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.)

[inkskinned]

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from Upstream: Selected Essays

[boykeats]

[ID: image text reading, "Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves." /end ID]

[archbudzar]

little black sheep

[dogpuppy]

[t-hiswifey]

No revenge. I just hope one day you realize how genuine I was.

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

condescending online man day

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

i almost forgot, happy condescending online man day everyone

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

and so we celebrate another condescending online man day

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

guess what day it is

[ak-nm]

[beardedmrbean]

[eroscestlavie]

At long last, after months of saying "I'll bring my camera next time" and then forgetting, I finally had my gear with me when I encountered the MARTA Bus Stop Bluescreen of Death. YAY

[webcomicname]

[inqilabi]

The disturbing thing nowadays is that resistance as spectacle has cut loose from its origins in genuine civil disobedience and is becoming more symbolic than real. Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are fun and vital, but alone they are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

Arundhati Roy - Public Power in the Age of Empire, 2004

[xtinedancefit]

Accidentally clicking on an AI assistant feels like clicking on a link that’s going to give you a virus.

[waowpuppy]

a perfect world where people go to play minigolf and say to each other "so. if this is minigolf, then whats golf?" and no one knows because golf hasnt existed for hundreds of years by that point

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[blessyouhawkeye]

my dear friend just looked up from the hat she's crocheting for a very large spherical rock we found in the river and said, in a slightly haunted tone that revealed this was the first time she was having this thought, "i should make something for my cousin's real human baby"

[blessyouhawkeye]

who needs a real human baby when you could have rock son with jaunty hat

[archbudzar]

x

[its-holiday-time]

Villa Hadrian, Roma, nov 23

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

[ID: Images of faded black and white mosaics in intricate geometric and floral patterns. ]

[designobjectory]

Hadrian's Villa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built around AD 120 by Roman emperor Hadrian near Tivoli outside Rome.