“Oh, won’t you be mine—again and again and again? No matter what happens I have always loved you so. And I love you still. Happily, happily foreverafterwards—the best we could.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1936
I tried to remember everywhere I went to eat on a recent trip to New York to see my sister! Everywhere we went was so good; I can recommend them all!!
[My grandmother] had been married at fifteen, had borne seven children before she was twenty-four. With her hands she had sorted a lifetime of rice and lentils, had gutted fish and deboned chicken. She knew how to upholster furniture and help grapevine spread and climb, how to cover bruises and scars so no one could see them, how to measure the value of her life and still rise.
Dima Alzayat, from "Daughters of Manāt", Alligator & Other Stories
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // Alison Pelegrin, from “Collect for the Days of My Youth,” Waterlines: Poems // @sunsbleeding // Doreen Valiente // Stanley Plumly
• The mortifying ordeal of being forgotten.
Danny Castillones Sillada, Those Sweet and Painful Memories // Artwork by @/zhihuie on twitter // V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue // Halsey, Angel on Fire // Steve Salo, Forgotten Art // Halsey, Angel on Fire // Sarah Thebarge, The Invisible Girls // Mitski, Working for the Knife // Artwork by @/bekysfairy on ig // Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from The Poems of Octavio Paz; “The Prisoner”
“A lot of the time you hear people say that the best thing people can do for nature is to stay away from it and let it be. There are places where that’s absolutely true and our people respected that. But we were also given the responsibility to care for land. What people forget is that that means participating—that the natural world relies on us to do good things. You don’t show your love and care by putting what you love behind a fence. You should be involved. You have to contribute to the well-being of the world.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
MARCH '23 READINGS
- Elephants in the Room • prose
- The Sinking Pleasure of a Bath • prose
- Consider the Lobster (and the Greenland Shark): On the Animals That Don’t Age • prose
- On the pleasures of hand-writing letters you’ll never send • prose
- Only cats: photographs of house-proud felines at leisure • photography
- Why We Confess • prose
- The 'Enshittification' of TikTok • prose
- Victory City • prose
- In praise of boredom • instagram post
- I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget • prose
- An Apparent Lowering Of Moral Standards In The Lepidoptera • prose
- Do you know about the Dead Letter Office? • prose
- The creative legacy of Gifs: Past, present and future • prose
- Instead Of Dying • prose (tw: alcoholism)
- The First Family of Human Cannonballing • prose
- Pictures are the eyes of the face • comics
- Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor • prose
- The Junkification of Amazon • prose
- Fighting for Girls' Education No Matter What • prose
- SorryWatch • website
- Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette • prose
- Storm Cycle • prose (tw: rape, child molestation)
- 2023 Intentions • prose
- fridge poetry • website
- Crushed. • prose
- Madonna's Face Is Not Subversive • prose
- The NYT Op-Ed I Just Took A Kill Fee For. • prose
- When Food is the Only Narrative We Consume • comic, prose
- Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To? • prose
- Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child • prose
- I Never Asked to Be the Face of a Movement • prose (tw: binge-eating, eating disorder)
- The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction • prose
- How People Think • prose
- Platonic • prose
- who you callin wombat head • prose
- The Prompt Box is a Minefield: AI Chatbots and Power of Language • prose
- Children of the Ice Age • prose
- The Muralist • prose
- Effortless Rest • prose
- Dating Apps Have a Filter Bubble Problem • prose
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“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?”
— Andrew Sean Greer, Less
Anonymous asked:
Hi Socraties <3
Can you link some hopeful love poems/sonnets?
Im in a happy mood
- "The Kiss", Stephen Dunn
- "What Is There to Say?", Jack Gilbert
- "6:59 AM", Shane Koyczan
- "Sonnet", Bill Knott
- "Love Poem with Apology for My Appearance", Ada Limón
- "Fire Graffiti", Tomas Tranströmer
- "Museum of Sex", Ellen Hagan
- "Hummingbird (For Tess)", Raymond Carver
- "i like my body when it is with your body", e.e. cummings
- "To Dorothy", Marvin Bell
- "I Am Offering This Poem", Jimmy Santiago Baca
- "Wedding Poem", Ross Gay
- "Letter Poem #3", James Schuyler
oh, the wind is keening tonight-- shaking the trees with long dark fingers, hunting for some shaking creature now cowered in its burrow.
i love all the words we have that mean traveler. i love the shades of difference between wanderer and rambler and rover. i love the boldness of adventurer and the purposefulness of explorer, the lawlessness of vagabond and the capability of wayfarer, the quiet reverence of pilgrim and the wild rootlessness of nomad.