“I want you to do this with me for one month. One month. Write 10 observations a week and by the end of four weeks, you will have an answer. Because when someone writes about the rustic gutter and the water pouring through it onto the muddy grass, the real pours into the room. And it’s thrilling. We’re all enlivened by it. We don’t have to find more than the rustic gutter and the muddy grass and the pouring cold water.”
— Marie Howe, Boston University’s 2016 Theopoetics Conference (via mothersofmyheart)
you are so polite with your sadness, you don't want to ruin this for anyone
💙 Sometimes. I used to be very messy, still can be.
Feeling in a slump? In desperate need of refreshment? After exhausting months of studying for exams like me? Well I have this plan to get my life together again and I thought I might share with you!
Spend 3 days resting
No planning and no routines
Don’t do anything you don’t want to do
Sleep in if you want
Binge that show or play that video game
1 day of cleaning your space
Keep it small and surfice level
Clean the dust and the floors
Change your sheets and towels
Declutter the things around
Let in fresh air
1 day of mental health reset
Focus on yourself and your mind with meditating or journaling
Go through your full routines
Read or be creative
Do your favourite self care activities
1 day of social media detox -no social media allowed
1 day of dopamine detox
You have to get bored
You are allowed to go for a walk or work out (no music tho!)
You can journal and meditate
A little bit of cheating: if you feel to desperate you can read
Spend this week with others as much as possible
Make small gifts for others
Hang out playing games or just talking
Make sure to tell people what they mean to you
Make sure to change up things in this part depending on your goals, health and your body’s needs!
No meat, bread (and other pastry) and sweets
No fried food
Drink water only
Fast for 16 hours a day (imtermittent fasting -a lot of you are concerned but don’t worry about me personally. It is safe for me. If you consider doing this do a proper research!)
Work out daily
Go for walks/jogging and spend as much time outside as possible
Take medications and vitamins properly
Declutter and organise your closets and cupboards
Go through your clothes
Deep clean your space
Donate things you don’t want or need
3 days resting completely (like the first 3 days)
4 days of active rest
Follow routines
Be creative
Garden/clean/cook
Work out/go cycling/do yoga
Read or learn something new
Create something every day
Plan your future
Find new routines
Get into stable routine that makes you happy
Keep in mind that these are all suitable for me and you can change things up as much as you want! I hope you find some inspiration in this and good luck on your journey!
tumblr is best app u just talk to urself and ppl go yep so true bestie
Be who you are, even if it kills you.
It will. Over and over again, Even as you live.
Break my heart, why don’t you?
— Joy Harjo, from "Break My Heart," Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Devin Kelly, from “All the Other Dogs Screaming”
This dude better marry her fast or someone is gonna try to steal her away
boys will be boys
The Untrustworthy Speaker
Don’t listen to me; my heart’s been broken.
I don’t see anything objectively.
I know myself; I’ve learned to hear like a psychiatrist.
When I speak passionately,
that’s when I’m least to be trusted.
It’s very sad, really: all my life, I’ve been praised
for my intelligence, my powers of language, of insight.
In the end, they’re wasted—
I never see myself,
standing on the front steps, holding my sister’s hand.
That’s why I can’t account
for the bruises on her arm, where the sleeve ends.
In my own mind, I’m invisible: that’s why I’m dangerous.
People like me, who seem selfless,
we’re the cripples, the liars;
we’re the ones who should be factored out
in the interest of truth.
When I’m quiet, that’s when the truth emerges.
A clear sky, the clouds like white fibers.
Underneath, a little gray house, the azaleas
red and bright pink.
If you want the truth, you have to close yourself
to the older daughter, block her out:
when a living thing is hurt like that,
in its deepest workings,
all function is altered.
That’s why I’m not to be trusted.
Because a wound to the heart
is also a wound to the mind.
By Louise Glück
Amy Dunne // Nickie Zimov // Carol Lee, To Die For // Marie Alsing // Anne Sexton, A Self Portrait in Letters // As Tears Go By (1988) dir. Wong Kar Wai // Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his wife Anna Dostoevsky, 28 August 1879 // Aron Wiesenfeld // Margaret Atwood, from “Thoughts From Underground”
Every lover’s got a little dagger in their hands…Communications and Media Scholar📚
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