being alive is so fucking scary but god do i love to love!!!! i love to love!!! i was put here to love. so much of life is so uncertain and unpredictable. but my love will be constant if i let it.
think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.
Natalie Díaz, from “exhibits from The American Water Museum”, Postcolonial Love Poem
besties WHAT is that quote that's like "to watch a horror movie is to know something bad is going to happen. to have a body is the same thing" or something like that
Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences
Like. Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland?
Miami and the Gold Coast (in Aus)
New Zealand and Oregon
The great plains and the Russian steppe
India and fiji
Gonna consolidate a couple additions/recommendations from others
Napa Valley, California and Tuscany, Italy
Appalachians in America and the Grampians in Australia
Black sand beach in Iceland and New Zealand
Aurora borealis and australis
Congo and Amazon rainforest/river
desert roads in Australia, South Africa, Argentina, and Mexico
Mountains in France and Korea
Auguste Rodin. Two Hands, 1909.
John Singer Sargent, Val d'Aosta (A Stream over Rocks; Stream in Val d'Aosta), ca.1907-08, Oil on canvas
“If I expect the worst then I’m prepared or I’ll be pleasantly surprised.” Disappointment isn’t lethal but hope is the blood of life. Lose too much and you will certainly perish.
Santiago Rusiñol, Aranjuez Garden. Arbor, II, 1907
IS THERE A RIGHT WAY TO EXIST ? (1) “Erasure Poem From Bone Thugs N Harmony’s Crossroads,” by Siaara Freeman // ( 3 & 6 ) Un Soplo de Vida by Clarice Lispector ( 1970 ) // (4) Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente ( 2011 ) // (7) // (8) A Hora Da Estrela by Clarice Lispector (1977)
MARCH IS THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN MY KITCHEN. a special case of agony and hope.