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i saw a quote that said “i feel like i’m constantly worrying about the next part of my life without realizing that i’m right in the middle of what i used to look forward to.” and i felt that.

#oof #what a feeling #good reminder

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YES! THANK YOU! Support your local public institutions! Local libraries are often run fully off of volunteers and still have the option to be able to take out a book they might not have in their collection but can get through inter library loan. The author is still being supported, but you're able to be more intentional and also support your local institutions.

If you buy a lot of books and end up not liking some of them very much, can I suggest checking them out from your library first?

I worked in bookstores for a long time, and of course lots of my paycheck went directly back into the store. I've ended up "weeding" a lot of those books and donating them to different places just because I knew I wasn't ever going to read them again.

Now I'm a librarian, and I'm realizing just how much money I'm saving by checking books out FIRST. Maybe I check something out and I end up DNF'ing it within 50 pages. Maybe I check something out and I enjoy it, but not enough to read it again. Maybe I check something out and I really love it, but it freaked me out so bad it's tattooed on the inside of my eyeballs and I won't need to read it again (Drew Magary's The Hike, I'm looking in your direction).

Or maybe I check something out and I love it! And then I go buy a copy to own because I know I'll reread it, probably with a pen to mark up the margins in a way I know I can't with a library book!

Idk man. If you want to be more intentional with the way you spend your money, if you want to combat the commercialization of the publishing industry, if you hate that authors are being forced to do all their own marketing on TikTok and that readers are feeling shame about not purchasing and finishing literal hundreds of books per year... Maybe start by going to your local library. You can still post haul photos of library books without spending a dime.

#libraries are the best #libraries are important #support your local library #libraries vs bookstores #books

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We actually have pictures that great of Mars, a planet averagely about 225 million kilometers (140 million miles) away from us. image credit: NASA

#mars! #look at this #science is incredible

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by Zhao Dalu

#women #existing #art

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“Heartbroken” 1895 Ignacio Diaz Olano

#art is real #ignacio diaz olano #the softness of women

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#this gives me a yearning

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“Don’t allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them.”

— Unknown

#ouch

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Stevie Nicks holding a copy of Frank Herberts ‘Dune’ after a concert in Amsterdam (1977)

#the queen

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The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom—the laughter of daisies—the piping of grasses—many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

#anne #l.m. montgomery #spring

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Auguste Toulmouche

French, 1829-1890

‘Sweet doing nothing’ (1877)

#the way her hand is portrayed #painting #art #the color pink

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Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 5 February 1904 featured in Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection

#why does spring call to us #woolf

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The window pane is 20 knives, all cutting through my fragile life. Someone new peeking through the room. I fear the name you whispered is mine, I’ll know it soon. I’m headless, I’m just limbs. I think they’re coming in. I already died, so this is extra time. I already died, so now I see it open eyed. I already died, so I am justified. I already died. There’s nothing you can say to change my mind.

#your words not mine #they speak #thank you

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girlhood never stops we just evolve…

#beauty in how present #allow us the freedom

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Giorgione, 1504

#judith

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Laura Knight - Vanitas

#the colors