Inside My Head

Davide Carovana

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Louise and Francis Norcross c. April 1873

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

I want to stay on the back porch / while the world tilts / toward sleep, until what I love / misses me, and calls me in.

(Dorianne Laux, from “On the Back Porch,” Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems )

go out and understand even if it is not aesthetically pleasing, read ebooks on your phone, learn languages that some seem to deem irrelevant, study a field people tell you is useless, take ugly notes, curse when you explain concepts back to yourself, study sitting at the kitchen table, make wonky flashcards, read things that interest you, eat takeout between study sessions, wear sneakers instead of oxfords, sweatpants when you’re sitting on the library floor, draw diagrams in cheap ballpoint pen, learn ‘imperfectly’.

it never matters like that.

lookingforabura

Gullfoss. South Iceland.

i thought this looked familiar…

and i was RIGHT.

Veronika Gilková