Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice On Love And Life From Dear Sugar

GOD SURPASSES US AS THE BEST LOVER.

Visions of Ecstasy (1989) dir. Nigel Wingrove / Léonard Bellivaux, Mary Magdalene in Adoration before the Crown of Thorns, 1866 / Philippe de Champaigne, Le Christ mort couché sur son linceul (detail), 1654 / Francesco Vanni, Saint Catherine Drinks the Blood of Christ (detail), 1594 / Francesco Hayez, Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene Kneeling and Weeping (detail), 1827 / Jean-Luc Marion, The Erotic Phenomenon.

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M. A. Thompson - I Won’t Write My Poem ‘Till I’m In My Right Mind X

Mary Oliver X

Richard Siken - road music

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert X

Ada Limón - The Carrying X

Nikki Giovanni - Mirrors X

“I just want to be kind in a world that isn’t”

I'm also redwingedboy

girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Volodya: Selected Works; from ‘I love’, tr. George Reavey

Cue It’s OK If You Forget Me by Astrid S 🤍

this anime wrecked my soul.

i miss gin, so fucking much.

good essays i’ve read this year

“the siren song” by nina maclaughlin

“out there: on not finishing” by devin kelly

“illuminating kirinyaga: meaing and knowing in mount kenya’s forests” by tristan mcconnell

“on the igbo art of storytelling” by ikechukwu ogbu

“poetry fills tehran streets as iranians adapt nowruz rituals to corona restrictions” by alex shams

“writing emails to my late father” by krista stevens

“panic is worse than pain: how fiction failed me after trauma” by jenn ashworth

bell hooks

Call me by your name (2017)

“I want to tell her that I want so badly to be a part of this world, to stand in it, but every hand I touch withholds warmth. The world gathers everywhere beyond me.”

— Victoria Chang, from “Dear Father”, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (via voirlvmer)