Scintillating

Kay. UK. Enjoying books and journals and that indomitable human stuff.

[sahlesummerhill]

[imanbenerrabeh]

oat latte + filofax personal

[philosophybits]

“In philosophy no inferences are drawn. “But it must be like this!” is not a philosophical proposition. Philosophy only states what everyone concedes to it.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

[greetingsfrommadrid]

[cherrystarcollide]

5/23/26

[shisasan]

Anne Sexton, from Complete Poems (1928-1974) first published 1981

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Solstice”, Poems 1962-2012

[writopodes]

I don't need to say anything ever again, the last book I read said it all for me

[alwaysbeenjessica]

woke up early to bake banana bread muffins and journal

[mylastpage]

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, Molly McGhee

I hope, one day, we meet again

[quotation--marks]

He looks into his wineglass (a coffee mug) for a moment. He is suddenly overcome by a sweeping wave of feeling that he can’t quite put his finger on. Like he is going to cry out of sadness, but not really out of sadness, actually, more like out of the inconceivability of life. Like life is an infinity of beauty, and he is only just now realizing it. Except, in realizing it, the beauty and the happiness are suddenly hurting him. 

Molly McGee, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

[nemfrog]

“Total eclipse of the sun, 1860, Tarragona.” Sun, moon, and stars. 1893. Frontispiece. 

[uroko]

吐山スズラン群生地

[godzilla-reads]

At the River Clarion by Mary Oliver; from “Evidence: Poems”

[writopodes]

Hello! From an ask/tag game: list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged or liked something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers ✨️

The perfect ask game for this bright and sunny Tuesday!

1 - Really good and relatable poetry that makes you feel something 2 - The first sip of a good coffee in the morning 3 - Choosing a random book to read next and it being life-changing 4 - New inks! 5 - Reading philosophy that has me nodding along

[writopodes]

A dear friend introduced me to Tove Ditlevsen's poem 'There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die' and it has been on my mind ever since

Your dreams were flimsy, child, doomed to fail, Your innocence ruined by the truth you were told

[yakusokuhoshi]