-Bylthe baird, if my body could speak
Your needs will not be met if you don’t start speaking up for them.
“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”
— Pema Chodron
clarice lispector the complete stories: “brasilia” (tr. katrina dodson) \ james wright above the river: the complete poems and selected prose: “a blessing” (via @weltenwellen)
Claudia Keep (American,b.1993)
Morning Swim, 2022
Oil on masonite panel
Anaïs Nin, from the diary of Anais Nin, vol. VI: 1955-1966
Ada Limón, from “Calling Things What They Are”, The Hurting Kind
— Sylvia Plath, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath"
segamascot
Shhhh no one has to know
i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing
sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!
Virginia Woolf, from The Waves
Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″
hobbiton, matamata, new zealand
Shutting everyone out has been the way I don’t have to deal with my problems. But it’s not fair to you. You’re a good person. It’s not an easy thing to say, because there are so many people in this world who aren’t. I’m a better person for having known you.”
~ Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle
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— Bryn Greenwood, from “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.”