Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959
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Paintings I made for my friends James and Momo
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edward hermann as captain steven j newsome in “ heal thyself “ 8x17 , m*a*s*h , dir . mike farrell . // “ ivan the terrible and his son ivan “ , artist ilya repin .
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self portrait against bed wallpaper by Richard Siken
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one last poem for Richard by Sandra Cisneros
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2024
THERE IS NO PERFECT TIME
YOUR EMOTIONS ARE INDICATORS
FOREVER IS ONLY EVERY DAY HEREAFTER
TAKE A LEAF OUT OF JIMMYS BOOK
EAT WORLD
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you made crusty bread rolls… by gary johnson
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richard siken’s new poem in the new yorker—at the link, you can hear him read it in full
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there's gonna be a few things, maybe several things
that you're gonna find really difficult to forgive
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"Sign of the Crow 2," another unreleased Mountain Goats song
These roses are the pleasures of the flesh
These ones here they are the pleasures of the spirit
And tucked behind a pornographic picture in a frame
The troops found the pierced heart and they all gathered near it
And the dust clouds bloomed in the dark
And the face gazed up from the frame
Roomful of French troops in a Franciscan abbey
History does not recall their names
Of the several things that you have to do today
You're gonna regret one
This generation asks for a sign
It isn't gonna get one
Bertha took the pictures to the priest
And the priest fell on his face and on the floor
And the story lived on for a decade or two
But no one really knows it anymore
But the blessed heart is seen in the airbrush
And the blessed heart is beating on the wind
And the bodies of the faithful stacked by dozens by the roadsides
Stripped and scourged and skinned
Of the several things that you have to do today
You're gonna regret one
This generation asks for a sign
It isn't gonna get one
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i spent way too much time making a Mountain Goats flowchart for people who wanna start listening but don't know what album to start with. please enjoy
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grieving the person you used to be
marian keyes// ?// bigger than the whole sky, taylor swift// fiona apple// @inkskinned// would've, could've, should've, taylor swift// father, the front bottoms// @inanotherunivrse// ?// memento mori, crywank// @dakotajohnsongf// @ryebreadgf// quote: deathless, catherynne m. valente edit:? // bojack horseman s6 e16// a pearl, mitski// would've, could've,should've, taylor swift// ?// ?// ?// @heavensghost
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