#on identity
<3!!
anna akhmatova (via@propertiesofjoy) \ mary oliver mindful(via@lilllium) \ leila chatti tea(via@propertiesofjoy) \ mary oliver blue horses: “i’m feeling fabulous, possibly too much so. but i love it” (via@liriostigre) \ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath (via@metamorphesque) \ warsan shire what we own
i don’t know who i am
hieu minh nguyen this way to the sugar (via@luthienne) \ via@zuvson\ natalie diaz postcolonial love poem: “postcolonial love poem” (via@beingharsh) \ salman toor the star (2019) \ elena ferrante the story of a new name \ adonis selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa)
forever is a lie
pjirawat \ sue zhao \ trois couleurs: bleu [“three colours: blue”]dir. krzysztif kieślowski (1993)via@ouugg \ ourbrokenbeatinghearts \ james lipnickasa place that could have been (2021) \ adonis selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa)via@weltenwellen \ salvador dali the persistence of memory (1931) \ samuel menashe samuel menashe: new and selected poems: “forever and a day” \@catilinas
sometimes life doesn’t feel real
rae armantrout bees\ jackie mathey paper puddle \ thomas james letters to a stranger: “tom o'bedlam among the sunflowers” \ robert hass sun under wood: new poems: “iowa city: early april” \ edward hopper automat(1927)
“Memories can be polished, like objects taken out, burnished, and contemplated, or they can flitter just out of reach, like lost threads of broken webs. To remember is to have two selves, one in the memory, one thinking about the memory, but the two are not precisely distinct, and separating them can be dizzying.”— A. S. Byatt, introduction to Memory: An Anthology
The genocide of shameful identity,
to murder the ideology of pleasing & becoming
everyone & everything else but yourself
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Dolly
23.02.2019
Mindset is a stubborn part of us that sometimes needs a little reality check to jolt the realisation back to the alignment of the soul’s purpose—
