Long Distance Friendships

the lover’s almanac : part one.

Sylvia Plath, aged 30, in a letter to her mother, 6 months after discovering her husband's infidelity, and their subsequent separation (dated Wednesday, 16 January 1963)

[Ted Hughes (aged 32) - her husband, who was having an affair with Assia Wevill (aged 35), a married woman who rented their London flat at Chalcot Square; Sylvia moved with their children (a 2-year-old daughter & an 11-month-old son) from Court Green in Devon, to 23 Fitzroy Road in London, at a rented flat, formerly the residence of W. B. Yeats]

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

April 21st, 1928 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

May 13th, 1933 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

A Hora da Estrela (1985) dir. Suzana Amaral

Joy Sullivan, “When My Friend Is Low, We Walk by the River”, Instructions for Traveling West

Eugenio Montale, from a poem titled "Dora Markus," featured in Selection of Modern Italian Poetry