Academia-wannabe - I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

Watercolor Animal Crossing Postcards made by ShiyiStudio

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

Every window in our house seemed to have been assigned a specific role, each one had numerous tales to tell.

- Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring

When you feel you have lost everything, you still have

books

unexpected kindness in strangers

the rest of the world to travel

languages to learn

animals to take care of

volunteer work to do

the power of a good night’s rest

the changing of seasons

infinite things to learn

billions of people to meet and possibly love

billions of people who might love you back

Needed this today

some old photos of st. paul's cathedral, london.

We are but wayward leaves, scattered to the air by an indifferent wind.

Over the Garden Wall (2014) 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁

what emotion do you write from

homosexuality

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