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“a community without romance risks being brutish and crass, superficial and brittle, cruel and even muderous. . . i don’t mean just romantic romance. i don’t just mean erotic romance. . . i mean the romance that allows us to soften our voices when we see each other.”

maya angelou, 1998

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

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The More Modest the Definition of Heaven, the Oftener We’re There by Albert Goldbarth

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i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

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David Christiana is the world’s loveliest artist. 

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still thinking about this youtube comment i screenshotted ages ago

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It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

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Book VII of The Meditations (~170 CE) by Marcus Aurelius.

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Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

#heaven... heaven is a place where nothing ever happens #the difference between seeing paradise and seeing a jungle is abundance of life

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“I want you to like living. I know you have low self-esteem but I think you have perfect self-knowledge. You have the grown woman’s gift of preferences – you want Weil over De Beauvoir; your skin wants acid, not serum; you wake up with a single cumulus cloud of inertia filling your entire head and you want fatty cream in your coffee; you want a lot of salt; your shape is this shape and calls for that pant leg; you have chosen your field of work and every day you choose it; your oil is this oil, your fruit is this fruit, you tolerate lactose and grain – these aren’t questions anymore, only a laborious set of rules you follow to satisfy your own demands. I guess I’ve assumed that kind of internal fluency would make days easier.”

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex: A Novel

#‘which way is forward?’

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sometimes when you’re feeling a little low, you go into the pantry and sniff a few spices. thyme. cumin. rosemary. and your lil animal brain feels a little better

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moon and field by Molly Dean

http://www.mollydean.com/TwilightGarden.html

#how i feel

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Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

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“Tact, like empathy, is based on a certain form of mutual understanding. But while empathy implies the idea of entering someone else’s mind inasmuch as it is linked to the presumption that ‘I know how you feel’, tact exists to create a form of bonding between individuals that is not based on the idea of intrusion but, conversely, on the respect for existing boundaries, and on a willingness not always to assume that one knows. While empathy requires resonance and proximity, tact is there to restore distance, and to accept the difference between the individuals involved in order to protect and preserve their dignity. Tact is based on an attention towards otherness.”

— Katja Haustein, “How to Be Alone with Others: Plessner, Adorno, and Barthes on Tact”

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#get free ldr #can also be read in reverse