#Cara and John

[ex0rin]

Wyatt Russell as John Walker | Thunderbolts* Big Game Trailer

[carebooks]

so, Elsa Dutton meets a cute cowboy, he dies, she goes off on his murderer, then meets, falls in love, and marries Sam, a member of the Comanche tribe… all in the spam of like half a year or something?

James and Margaret have one of the best marriages on the show, only competing with Jacob and Cara. or vice versa.

Jack Dutton moves his wedding date around but still ends up with his wife no matter what, keeps his promise. Is committed to the end.

Spencer meets Alex one day and after five minutes of talking to her, lets her join him on the safari trip. in the course of one day, they are engaged. by the end of their adventure to get back on a boat, they are married.

Kayce meets and gets Monica pregnant when they were 18-19, immediately goes to marry her and is still with her to this day.

Beth saw Rip once when they were teenagers and just never let him go, literally kidnapped a priest at 35 so he’d marry them.

the Dutton’s really are just built like that when it comes to romance, huh?

[eyeoftheheart]

ANAM CARA

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,

25th Anniversary Edition.

Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Fanore, County Clare, Ireland

Photo: © Ann Cahill

[sorrydetka]

they’re right outside the door and they don’t know…

severance (2022-) // anam cara by john o'donohue

[citizenscreen]

A studio portrait of CBS television stars, circa 1965. (L-R back row) John McGiver, Sterling Holloway, Yvonne De Carlo, Paul Ford, and Fred Gwynne; (front row) Julie Newmar, Cara Williams, and Tina Louise.

[quotelr]

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

[caramara3]

And just like that, we have entered an alternate universe where Cena is the asshole heel and RANDY "THE APEX PREDATOR" ORTON is the babyface?!?!?!

[shapedheartache]

Get Lost. Get Found.

[tomorrowusa]

The Trump administration doesn't try to prevent disaster, it actually makes disaster worse.

Just ask the mayor of St. Louis which was hit by an EF3 tornado a few days ago but has still not gotten any response from FEMA.

St. Louis Mayor: Trump’s FEMA Still Hasn’t Helped With Tornado Recovery

Watch for an abrupt change in policy if Mar-a-Lago gets hit by a storm surge.

[ex0rin]

Thunderbolts* | Big Game Trailer

[heathsledger2]

[innervoiceartblog]

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment.

― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

[dk-thrive]

It is a strange and magical fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. It is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.

— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara (HarperCollins, 1997) (via Hammock Papers)

[godsprettiestprincess]

It’s so hyperspecific but one of my favorite tropes ever has GOT to be a character thinking they know someone better than anyone else, and then being wrong. Maybe they used to be right, maybe they were just deluded, but at some point they have to face that they don’t have the whole picture (and quite possibly never will)

[princessofgotham777]

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Gangs of New York (2002) Martin Scorsese

March 17th 2025