Rina Sawayama For Her New Album Hold The Girl Releasing September 2nd👑😌

Catherine Lacey, “Cut” / Robin McKinley, Deerskin / Bruce Springsteen intro to “I’m on Fire” / Mary Ruefle, “Woodtangle” / Dick Lourie, “How Do We Forgive Our Fathers?”

This year I learned that pain is inevitable. Loved ones will be lost whether it be death or simply growing apart. People will disappoint you and no matter how much you may love them, sometimes you need to walk away for yourself. It’s commendable to plan for the future and to visualize the things you want in life. Most likely none of it will happen and life will take you on a journey you never planned for. The number one lesson I have learned this year though is, No matter how unbearable the pain may be, love conquers everything and it can be found in the most unexpected places. We just have to be willing to invite it in and give it back. To cherish those who continue to love us even when we feel we don’t deserve it. That kind of love is hard to find and it will leave if it is not nourished, especially the love we need for ourselves.

dontbescaredjustbefree,  writing prompt #73: Write about the lessons you learned this year. (via wnq-writers)

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

“i just like my alone time” i say as if loneliness hasn’t been all i’ve known since childhood

The split interview post.... My ziall heart is also bleeding because why were they so pure and precious and yet left so few things for us to cherish. We-eeee are never ever, getting back together :,(

wHY DID NIALL ANSWER THE PHONE LIKE HONEST TO GOD HE WAS A FAN TALKING TO HIS CELEBRITY CRUSH?? “[GASP]!!! HI ZAYN!!!!!! IS THIS ZAYN????? OH!!!! CAN YOU GIVE ME A SHOUT-OUT??? YES, ZAYN, I LOVE YOU!!”

HE TEXTED ME “NIALL CAN I MAKE YOU SMILE” AND I SAID “OKAY”

IS THAT WHAT THEIR CONVERSATIONS ARE REALLY LIKE???? I -?????????

lISTEN TO THEM LAUGHING I AM SO UPSET

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

—Li Bai, Question and Answer on the Mountain, tr. by Keith Holyoak

doing everything by myself lately. going to the beach, the mountains, museums and italian deli shops. i feel lonely but im done wallowing in that feeling. ill have more fun eating free sardinian olives & flirting with the guy behind the counter anyway . like-minded people will come in time <3

into the woods

franz kafka “letters to friends, family, and editors” // unknown // the world to come (2020, dir. mona fastvold) //mary oliver "entering the kingdom” // colette “claudine getting married” // edvard munch “towards the forest”, 1897 // “the wolf’s eyelash” clarissa pinkola estés // wendell berry “stay home”

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