CSM #123 SPOILERS

shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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we’re his cuddle bug :((((

Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

my whole being turns void as i give much to people and they ceaselessly take parts of me

∬ ﹒ 🩰 . ° ☕️ ﹒ ❊

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Song of a Second April

Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "To Julia de Burgos"

[Text ID: "in all my poems I undress my heart."]