*forgives myself for the moments I've acted outside my values due to fear and uncertainty*
Practice âsocial distancingâ by being exiled from the kingâs court for your unseemly, debauched, and scandalous behaviour.Â
âDoes anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.â
â May Sarton. âJournal of a Solitude: The Journals of Mary Sartonâ.Â
Ritual Dagger, 17th century or earlier, Eastern Tibet, Kham region. Gilt copper alloy and rock crystal.
Hung on my bedroom wall is the quote attributed to Joan of Arc: âI am not afraid. I was born to do this.â However my life unfolds, goes my thinking, is how I am meant to live it; however my life unspools itself, I was created to bear it.
Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias  (via fuckyeahannecarson)
this bracelet came with the original letterÂ
addressed to â pet âÂ
christmas 1884.