When Adam bit the apple he did it because he trusted Eve. Because he loved her. Adam bit into the apple because the woman he loved told him to, no matter what God said. No matter the rules of heaven. What’s heaven to a woman’s love anyway? What’s God to your wife? The first sins of humanity, were trusting others. Eve trusted a snake, Adam trusted Eve, and I trust you. Maybe that’s a sin, just like the first couple. Maybe everyone’s right about us and we’re sinners and we offend God. But like I said, what’s God to a woman’s love anyway? What has heaven got that I can’t find sitting next to you on a cool autumn morning?
*becomes everything I dreamed of when I was little and almost doesn’t notice*
If you have a bad morning, it does not mean that the rest of the day will be a disaster. If you feel absolutely down in the evening, it does not mean that every little good thing that happened before is erased. Yes, life is a tough battle, but you my love, you are a tough fighter. Through the good and the bad, you hold on as tightly as you can and you make it through. You always make it through. Be proud of yourself. Stop for a second and look how far you have come - look what you have already conquered, darling. Picking yourself up over and over again is the hardest challenge of all but look at you winning. You are so capable. Go you.
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Callista Buchen, “Taking Care”
Pat Schneider, “The Patience of Ordinary Things”
Kim Hye Rim
“Come, let’s stand by the window and look out / at the light on the field. / Let’s watch how / the clouds cover the the sun and almost nothing / stirs in the grass.”
Danusha Laméris, The Moons of August; “Thinking”
Heather Christle, “Then We Are in Agreement”
Holly Warburton
Ross Gay, from The Book of Delights
Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
Bernadette Mayer, from The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
Ben McLaughlin, The Train
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Joy Harjo, from “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet”
When you’re an artist, it’s because there’s something inside you that you can’t keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jeté, or a stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it’s always the same. It’s the emotion there isn’t a word for. The feeling that’s too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable—people who are content—they don’t create art.
Jodi Picoult, from The Book of Two Ways (Ballantine, 2020)
1. bathe by hailaker
2. art by maggie stephenson
3. ocean vuong, night sky with exit wounds
4. art by charlotte ager
5. banana yoshimoto, goodbye tsugumi
The pit 🥚
when hands touch..
Could things have gone any other way?