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gentlelilac:

Maggie Smith, The Washington Post // Lady Bird, dir. Greta Gerwig

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I learned from Mary Oliver how attention is a kind of love, how shining your mind’s light on a thing — a grasshopper, a bird, a tree — is a way of showing gratitude.

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SISTER SARAH-JOAN: It comes across as love.

LADY BIRD: Sure, I guess I pay attention.

SISTER SARAH-JOAN: Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention?

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aineov:

Exist slowly, softly like the trees

Ada Limón, Mowing // Shaun Tan, The Blue Cow // Shaun Tan, A Temple for Cows //Czesław Miłosz, Notes // Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

ashstfu:

if you read, you’re hot. i don’t make the rules

mr. darcy ghostwrote this

doctorslippery:

tanou123:

New Orleans ❤

Thunderstorm jazz is freaking awesome. I need an album of that. I’d sleep like a baby.

the only good thing about time passing is summer fruits coming back in season

nocountryforlesbians:

head not empty, many abstract uncommunicatable thoughts

terracottavase:

me, I don’t exist to impress anyone. i exist only in the hopes that if mary oliver knew me she would classify me as the kind of person who is a suitable companion to walk into the woods with and perceive crickets and trees and silence together with

jooliefiveash:

So I made these recommended reading lists for a final this term and thought I’d share them!

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Native lit for Adults:

Ceremony by Leslie Marmo Silko

There, There by Tommy Orange

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones

YA Native Lit:

Standing Strong by Gary Robinson

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States For Young People, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Children’s Book Native lit:

Birdsong by Julie Flett

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Tradition by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez

The Forever Sky by Thomas Peacock and Annette S. Lee

Nimoshom and his Bus by Penny M. Thomas and Karen Hibbard

Fall in Line, Holden! By Daniel W. Vandever

Native Comics and Graphic Novels:

Prism Stalker vol 1 by Sloane Leong

Moonshot vol 1-3 edited by Hope Nicholson

Golden Kamuy series by Satoru Noda

Deer Woman: An Anthology edited by Elizabeth Lapensée

Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection edited by Matt Dembicki

Native films:

Reel Injun (2009)

The Lesser Blessed (2012)

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

The Rider (2017)

Mekko (2015)

Native music:

Navajo Country Music by Dirt Rhodes

Wovoka by Redbone

At the Party With My Brown Friends by Black Belt Eagle Scout

A Tribe Called Red by A Tribe Called Red

Baby Blue by Mourning Coup

reindeerspotting :

my fav conspiracy theory is that everything will turn out ok eventually

can’t believe that a man directed pride & prejudice 2005 and did that good of a job with it like damn, joe wright, way to be a romantic. way to channel jane austen & cause swooning. way to actually create quality romance cinema in a manner that thousands of people will connect with and cherish for years afterwards

firstfullmoon :

I’m not feeling strong yet, but I am taking
good care of myself. The weather is perfect.
I read and walk all day and then walk to the sea.
I expect to swim soon. For now I am content.
I am not sure what I hope for. I feel I am
doing my best. It reminds me of when I was
sixteen dreaming of Lorca, the gentle trees outside
and the creek. Perhaps poetry replaces something
in me that others receive more naturally.
Perhaps my happiness proves a weakness in my life.
Even my failures in poetry please me.
Time is very different here. It is very good
to be away from public ambition.
I sweep and wash, cook and shop.
Sometimes I go into town in the evening
and have pastry with custard. Sometimes I sit
at a table by the harbor and drink half a beer.

— Linda Gregg, “The Letter”

paulettejosatelier :

7″x 10“ Acrylic Ink, color pencil,  gold leaf and acrylic gouache on Arches 300 grs paper.

The ritual is a series of images that revolves around one’s perception through the eyes of someone equal. One’s perception can be prey to the quietness of a dance, a pair of watchful eyes, a soild that clung to our shoulders or some ornaments decorating our eyes.”

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retroactivebakeries :

sumpix :

Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art, say archaeologists.

Research indicates young children expressed themselves in an ancient form of finger-painting. And, just as in modern homes, their early efforts were given pride of place on the living room wall.

A Cambridge University conference on the archaeology of childhood on Friday reveals a tantalising glimpse into life for children in the palaeolithic age, an estimated 13,000 years ago.

(via Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says | Science | The Guardian)

“Some of the children’s flutings are high up on walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone’s shoulders,”

poetrylesbian:

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farmgf:

INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP

ada limón / princess mononoke (1997) / mary oliver / gang of youths / albert camus / the two towers (2002)

rslashrats :

i think some of you need to eat a slice of cheesecake and listen to ambient rain noises ten hours

hedgehog-moss :

korean-disaster :

jackmanhugh :

open a new window somewhere in the world. 

i love this because it’s such a simple concept but it answers things i didn’t even know how to ask

Looking out of people’s windows is such a peaceful way of travelling… I got a snowfall in Argentina, a nice sea view in Ukraine, a clothes line in the fog in Bangalore. Antonella from Tavernaro, I like your wooden bird.

those poems where they spend 2/3rds of it indirectly communicating a thing and you figure out what the point is and you think the author is too shy or weak to declare it but then they come right out and say it just before their lines end? and it almost takes your breath away because oh, “things are like other things, but oH this is The Thing, ohh they said it”? ya, those poems are the shit

themuppetmasterencyclopedia:

Goodnight

i won’t be sorry that you’re mad at me for doing exactly what i said i’d be doing

dostoiivskii:

chinesesatellite:

podencos / cloudbeam / celine sciamma interview / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / i think love is something that happens to other people / each the other’s world entire (2014)

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong // whacher, anne carson 

propertiesofjoy:

endearments in letters to véra

milliondollars:

Walk around with an aura so radiant and bright, it attracts nothing but prosperity.

honestly in my xp it attracts nothing but overconfident straight boys but ya i hope some prosperity too<3

medusa-was-innocent:

Resenting the male gaze but also being obsessed with how you’re perceived by others

Margaret Atwood /// Susan Sontag /// Real Men - Mitski /// Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert /// Birds of Prey (2020) /// post by jitterati /// Liquid Smooth - Mitski /// Jennifer’s Body (2009) /// Bravado - Lorde /// Diagnosis - Cynthia Cruz

i hope my future children ask me to do stupid trends with them on whatever the 2040 version of tik tok is

recoversuggestions :

friendly reminder that you didn’t waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort, any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of. 

*using two fries like chopsticks to pick up a sauce-drenched fry without messying my fingers* Innovation that Excites

365filmsbyauroranocte :

A metamorfose dos pássaros (Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)

yes, it’s true, what they say

i still can’t get out of bed without music playing

*shawty by remi wolf plays as i roll to the floor with a thud*

when mitski said only i and the important people need to know what i meant by ‘texas is a landlocked state’ and i fell in love with her for that