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i think growing up u might get this idea that to demonstrate a true love for someone u must try to fix them. u must be good enough to nullify & annihilate what has hurt them or haunts them etc but rlly its just about. being near someone. not fixing them. rather... tending to someone. being mindful. being present. the gesture is not going to be grand & large & polarizing. love & healing are about being there, even in silence, just being there

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Ankita Saxena, on her translation of Fahmida Riaz's poem "A Woman Is Laughing", pub. Modern Poetry in Translation [ID'd]

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u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

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Walter Wick working on various I Spy books, from his instagram

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If I had mandibles I'd clack them together like tongs all the time

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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

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marcia resnick

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Edvard Munch

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sea, swallow me

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poem by mosab abu toha pasted to ironwoodfarmny’s truck traveling from Ghent, NY

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Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada, "Not Just Passing," translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine.

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"Baba Yaga and woman-birds" by Ivan Bilibin (Russia, 1902)

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“I just think goodness is more interesting. Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. But you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

— Toni Morrison.

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I want to build a house with you more often than I want to die, Dante Émile

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i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

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I love seeing people adopt phrases I say like yes say my words boy