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The theory of flight, Paul Villinski

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Walter Molino

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Joan Tierney

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Joan Tierney

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it's not like nikola tesla knew all of those people were going to die by Hanif Abdurraqib

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readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

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you can go back to the past but nobody’s there

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“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard siken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

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“CHORUS: And the grace of the gods (I’m pretty sure) is a grace that comes by violence.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon (tr. Anne Carson)

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haiku #1, tathev simonyan

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The Death of the Month

28th February, 11:59.

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a gift for a friend: mary (@thewinedarksea)

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actually imagine someone writing this about you. like ohhh cool you loved me so much you became a vessel for the muse of poetry. that's cool

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Jethro Buck (British, b.1986)

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Natalie Shapero, “Good Description,” in Popular Longing

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“we look at the world once, in childhood. the rest is memory” miss louise glück you may be right but i’m also determined every day to prove you wrong & that i can look at the world again, anew, whenever i want & these rebirths, alongside love, are what keeps me here, more than any memory, but memories are more precious to me than everything except the present & the future, which is infinite, which is why i will keep looking