Birds and Life - observing, noticing and falling into depth of simple things.
(4th October 2024)
𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨:
1. empty perfume bottles
2. abandoned castles
3. pressed flowers
4. smell of soil after rain, Petrichor
5. old books with dust all over them
6. walking all alone in a museum hall
7. languages that humanity no longer uses
8. stars, the moon, the entire universe and it’s secrets
9. old paintings
10. late night conversations
11. thunderstorms
12. vintage love letters
13. gothic architecture
14. waves hitting the shore at nighttime
15. candles that smell like seasons
16. stained glass windows
17. An empty library
18. writing poetry
19. family heirlooms
20. enjoying peaceful silence
Shoutout to @stardustemotions for making the former half of this thread.
“Reading can be hard, or at least it can present the sort of challenge that modern life is supposed to ease or optimize away. Reading is harder than streaming Netflix, watching a movie, listening to music, or playing video games. Hardness, on its own, is not a virtue. It does, however, matter. It matters to be a disciplined adult. It matters to sit still, to think, to escape the flotsam and be alone with yourself, with another world. It matters to grapple with language, theme, plot, and characterization. It matters that the conclusions aren’t simple, that literature—good literature—is murk. It’s the dark of the wilderness, a lighted match showing that, in fact, there is only more, a vastness you can only begin to comprehend. Reading teaches you that life is not an algorithm and that the certainty of your opinions, neatly sorted into a 2020s rubric, is very much unwarranted, with eternities stretching before and after you. Reading is meeting another consciousness that is not cable television and never will be, that exists at a complexity many lightyears beyond self-righteous pundit panels, the red versus blue, your new spin on the midterms. Reading is knowing those you would never know otherwise. It is, perhaps, the most human thing you can do.”
— You Should Read Books
Just look at this beautiful Angel, he's a blessing to humanity 🤍
Every time I listen to his music, his voice, it makes me feel something I could never describe, no other artist has made me feel the way he does, I'm glad he exists.🤍
It's always: "wanna hang out" but never "hey let's create a secret society and read literature and poetry"
.. first poem: @shessensitivee
✧・゚: * just a girl and her favorite things * :・゚✧ ᥫ᭡ 𖤐 ꕤ
I believe there's some truth to it.
Academia lover | Poet in quiet hours | Books & soft skies 🤍
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