basic human decency !!!!!!! Empathy and compassion !!!!!! Very sexy concepts !!!!!!
this week is dedicated to creating instead of consuming. no tv, no tik tok, no books, no tumblr or instagram scrolling - instead lots of singing, dancing, sewing, writing, talking, humming, gardening, staring blankly ahead, and napping. also lots of reaching for my phone and catching myself halfway down my timeline before regaining consciousness. it’s proving to be hard but worthwhile. i think my spark is coming back.
–Mary Oliver
“She goes on being a poem,”
— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Rejoinder,”
Many of you are lacking the whimsy , the ability to see beauty in the mundane , the childlike innocence that keeps us truly living.
I am manifesting the most beautiful life for myself.
“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo