[neshamama]

nina simone performs “i wish i knew how it would feel to be free” at the montreux jazz festival, 1976, switzerland

[anthropoetics]

readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

[happyheidi]

obsessed with emily dickinson's herbarium 🌿 x

[fortuneaday]

[A white fortune cookie paper with blue text. Front: Your love of life can carry you through any circumstance. Lucky Numbers 54, 28, 2, 6, 38, 16 Back: Beverage; drink, Chinese text 饮 (yǐn) 料 (liào)]

[rain-mag-deactivated20181120]

Cho Gi Seok for RAIN magazine, rain-mag.com

[viinnttaaggee]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

[ninarathbone]

photographer Nina Rathbone

[kafk-a]

Marguerite Duras

[soultobeloved]

“The Day Dream” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1880

The sitter for this painting was Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris, who often posed for Rossetti. At the time this was painted, Rossetti was involved in an illicit love affair with Jane. He shows her sitting in the branches of a sycamore tree and holding a sprig of honeysuckle. This sweet-smelling climbing plant symbolized the bonds of love for the Victorians, and Rossetti may have included it here as a subtle reference to the relationship between artist and model. Rossetti was also a poet, and the title relates to his poem of the same name that ends: She dreams; till now on her forgotten book Drops the forgotten blossom from her hand.

[fordarkmornings]

Vicente Romero Redondo (Spanish, b. 1956). Pastel on paper. 

[ahandsomechicken]

are you ever like. am i horny or am i yearning. or both. am i hoarning?

[morelifealways-deactivated20240]

the idea of coming home to the love of your life is so soothing and nice I can’t wait to look forward to that

[fidnru]

“Girls know they are losing themselves… Girls become fragmented, their selves spilt into mysterious contradictions. They are sensitive and tenderhearted, mean and competitive, superficial and idealistic. They are confident in the morning and overwhelmed with anxiety by nightfall. They rush through their days with wild energy and then collapse into lethargy. They try on new roles every week: this week the good student, next week the delinquent and the next, the artist.”

— Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (via fyp-psychology)

[llleighsmith]

sam sifton, from the nyt “what to cook right now” newsletter

[timotaychalamet]

Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

[twirld]

The Woman, The Man and The Serpent (detail) Byam Shaw