“When we love something, isn’t it as if we have grown hands especially to hold it?”— Catie Rosemurgy, from “Miss Peach Gets Lucky,” The Stranger Manual (via lifeinpoetry)
Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Smiling sun face. East o’ the sun and west o’ the moon. 1924. Endpaper detail.
hello everyone let’s stop looking back and wondering if things could have been different, it’s never gonna happen! love you
And if someday
the uncertainty of this world
becomes too overwhelming,
I hope you remember
that some mysteries
aren’t meant to be solved,
they’re meant
to be lived.
from ought by molly brodak, published in a little middle of the night
[Text ID: well… define hurt. Because I can’t tell if I’m dull to it or if it is just everywhere. /End ID]
— DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GIRL WHO LIVES IN DELUSION?
June, July, August. Every day, we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.
August by Mary Oliver




