It Is My Birthday Today. As A Gift To Me, Tell Someone You Know About Palestine, But Don’t Just Tell

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

Wound is the Origin of Wonder, Maya C. Popa

Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy if you seek it through your self. 

Ibn Ataallah (rahimullah)

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

my mind is very beautiful and it’s going to take me very far.

Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. A good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. Btw

“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”

— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)

do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that's worth doing, that's worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same.