Alina, she/her, infj, writer, environmentalist, modern romanticist
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'people have always been people' goes for simple human compassion & humor but only if it also means understanding that historical people have always been as complex and nuanced and innovative as they are now. their food and clothing and language and tools, particularly of ordinary people, however different than you're used to, should not be assumed to represent cultural inferiority or that those people had inferior tastes or intelligence or capacity for feeling than you do
Ada Limon said, “I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even.” and “I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.” and Anis Mojgani said, “Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”
Love as Acceptance
Caitlyn Siehl // Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" // Rumi, "Bitterweet" // trans. Anne Carson, "Euripides" // Sade Andria Zabala, "Coffee and Cigarettes" // tumblr acct @/gayassnatural // Anne Carson, "H of H Playbook" // William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116" // Clementine von Radics, "Mouthful of Forevers" // Toni Morrison, "Jazz"
i think we as modern humans have a tendency to forget that historical people were also humans who had thoughts and feelings and dreams just like we do
“That is the way I want to write—rich and rhythmic—heavy, sonorous prose that befits those mythic ambiguities that are both source and structure to an aesthetic experience symbolized by language—”
— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization
For someone who is tired 100% of the time, I sure am bad at sleeping.
Don Valley Parkway, Toronto
