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Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

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cant stop thinking about this this was sooo crazyyyyy

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https://www.instagram.com/subwayhands/

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painting this on the ceiling above my bed so it's the first thing i see upon waking in the morning and the last thing i see before falling asleep at night

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Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

[ID: There are things that can only be understood retrospectively, when many years have passed and the story has ended. In the meantime, while the story continues, the only thing to do is tell it over and over again as it develops, bifurcates, knots around itself. And it must be told, because before anything can be understood, it has to be narrated many times, in many different words and from many different angles, by many different minds.]

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exerpt from “John Chapman” in American Primitive by Mary Oliver

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tragic overliving as being unable to escape the story you’re in, from emily wilson’s mocked with death

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you are not as damned as you think you are

submit me webweaving posts :)

@chloeinletters @pratikdherange

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@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / unknown / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis

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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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The wolf moon.

(January 13, 2025)

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Today the sky looked like straight from a van gogh painting

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by cocorrina.co

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“Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter—this is what life is, herein lies its task. I have come to recognize this. This idea has entered into my flesh and blood.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a letter to his brother detailing his experience of nearly getting executed