l'amour est la beauté de l'âme 𓈒
love is insane you feel like you're always subtly asking "do you still love me even though i'm flawed" and the answer just keeps being yes
having irl moots is so fun until you get a text saying “are you tumblr posting during class?”
How to Decay Gracefully / Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) / Etchings for Ulysses, by Mimmo Paladino / Meditation On The Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology Of Poetry, ‘Monologue of a Foreign Woman’ by Rosario Castellanos / Dead inside, Oils, 2021
I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.
People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.
“...some girls are full
of heartache and poetry
and those are the kind of girls
who try to save wolves instead of
running away from them...”
-Nikita Gill
1. Give more than is required
2. Learn as much as you can
3. Be strong and courageous
4. Speak and live your truth
5. Be true to your values
6. Resist mediocrity
7. Seek to inspire others
8. Love wholeheartedly.