Affection🖤• Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec • Marc Chagall • Milt Kobayashi • Malcolm T. Liepke

i need these in my closet asap. (part two)

hello !!! do u know any poems that are abt not giving up and finding strength in urself etc? kinda like intructions on not giving up by ada limon! it can be book recs too ! boooks that just keep u going when things are hard?

poems.

“a litany for survival” by audre lord (i believe ive read that ada limón had this poem printed on her wall to look at every day during a difficult time in her life.... i have too)

“the peace of wild things” by wendell berry

“wild geese” by mary oliver (you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves)

“from blossoms” li-young lee

“the trees” by philip larkin

“á la recherche d’ gertrude stein” by frank o’hara (all is wiped away revealing lifes tenderness)

“this morning” by lucille clifton (i survive survive survive)

"have you ever tried to enter the long black branches" by mary oliver (listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?)

“i am not ready to die yet” by aracelis girmay

etc.

if you want something philosophical: the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

if you want something fictionalized and slowburning: his dark materials trilogy by philip pullman

if you want to read those whose words will never fail me: letters of vincent van gogh, letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke

“My heart is empty. The emptiness is a mirror turned toward my own face.”

— The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. by Ingmar Bergman (via violentwavesofemotion)

darling, it’s cold outside so let’s make it right on ao3

(six tumblr-prompted holiday drabbles put in one place.)

“we took our kids to santa’s workshop and they both wished we would get together” (narry)

“i got you for secret santa so i got you this really expensive but sentimental gift that you’ve always wanted, hoping you’ll never find out it’s from me - and that i’ve been in love with you 1234567 years” (narry)

person a seducing person b into taking a few steps back/backing them against the wall (”oh look, how did that mistletoe get right there????” (ziall)

“i live below you and i was minding my own business watching the snowfall out the window WHEN I SAW A BODY FALL ARE YOU REALLY PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS NOW” (narry)

I KNITTED YOU A JUMPER!!!! (narry)

“you’re in the hospital for the holidays so i came in while you were sleeping to decorate your room i love you merry christmas” (narry)

You ever sat back and realized how much you allowed yourself to suffocate at one point in time because you were too kind?

해가 뜨기 전 새벽이 가장 어두우니까 먼 훗날에 넌 지금의 널 절대로 잊지 마 지금 니가 어디 서 있든 잠시 쉬어가는 것일 뿐 포기하지 마 알잖아.

Because the dawn right before the sun rises is the darkest Even in the far future, never forget the you of right now Wherever you are right now, you’re just taking a break Don’t give up, you know.

if any non-palestinians, especially in ‘the west,’ especially in positions of bodily safety, especially especially whites, are still feeling hopeless and lost about the genocide, may i offer, as gently as possible... get over it. your body is safe. you have been told over and over and over exactly what you can do to help, in exhaustive detail according to your specific social and political position. find out what you should do and do it if you can. if you can’t, that’s on you. find something you can do. stop asking palestinians to tell you what to do; take what is already given. you can find the instructions that have already been so explicitly left for you. you are an adult. your job is to keep moving. you are not allowed to be hopeless — that is a betrayal of everything the palestinian community and its supporters stand for. keep moving. don’t let anyone tell you that anti-zionist means anti-semite. don’t let anti-zionists around you become anti-semites. don’t let islamophobia stand. know that propaganda works and it’s working on you right now. keep moving. you are an adult. your life is yours to care for — that means finding the support you need, which also means knowing the boundaries and needs of those supporting you. you aren’t special. you aren’t alone. keep moving. you are not a hero. you are safe. you have agency. there is nothing you can do that can’t be done by someone else while you recharge. you are part of a collective; no one is looking directly at you. do what you can, and if you can do nothing, make your peace with that. palestine has no time for your shame or your guilt. feel these feelings when they come to you and then move through them.

(171208) irene - peekaboo