“All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.”
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Potomac River
guy who's profiting from it: look, i don't like it either
by V. Vatagin, 1959
Joyce Lin, Wood Chair in Fir, 2024
girls love having their little digital archives
“I am paranoid about how much grief a tree can witness. That these woods grow older & never break their silence seems unfeeling.”
— Emily Skaja, “Elegy With Rabbits,” from Brute (via bostonpoetryslam)
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
— Margaret Atwood
mental illness made me so desperate for joy that i forgot it was this simple… feeling the ocean against your skin… a really good guitar riff… sun on your back… holding the door for a stranger… a cold shower on a hot day…….. the world is like a cradle and i am just a little baby. eyes wide open there is so much to see
men *in a menacing & evil tone*