God Feeds Every Single Bird But Does Not Put It Right In Its Nest.

every day i wake up and drink my silly little coffee while God eats my heart like a pomegranate in front of me

Dinh Tho Nha  -  Deux femmes assises, étang au nymphéas,  1976 

Vietnamese, b. 1931 

Ink and gouache on silk

Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives

hello !!! do u know any poems that are abt not giving up and finding strength in urself etc? kinda like intructions on not giving up by ada limon! it can be book recs too ! boooks that just keep u going when things are hard?

poems.

“a litany for survival” by audre lord (i believe ive read that ada limón had this poem printed on her wall to look at every day during a difficult time in her life.... i have too)

“the peace of wild things” by wendell berry

“wild geese” by mary oliver (you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves)

“from blossoms” li-young lee

“the trees” by philip larkin

“á la recherche d’ gertrude stein” by frank o’hara (all is wiped away revealing lifes tenderness)

“this morning” by lucille clifton (i survive survive survive)

"have you ever tried to enter the long black branches" by mary oliver (listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?)

“i am not ready to die yet” by aracelis girmay

etc.

if you want something philosophical: the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

if you want something fictionalized and slowburning: his dark materials trilogy by philip pullman

if you want to read those whose words will never fail me: letters of vincent van gogh, letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke

Megan’s Instagram Update (July 10, 2021)

a reckless devotion to living

Margarita Karapanou | Don Herztfeldt | Banana Yoshimoto | Tony Kushner | Mary Oliver | Lizzo | Maggie Smith | Adrienne Rich | @beetlegarden | Anonymous

if any non-palestinians, especially in ‘the west,’ especially in positions of bodily safety, especially especially whites, are still feeling hopeless and lost about the genocide, may i offer, as gently as possible... get over it. your body is safe. you have been told over and over and over exactly what you can do to help, in exhaustive detail according to your specific social and political position. find out what you should do and do it if you can. if you can’t, that’s on you. find something you can do. stop asking palestinians to tell you what to do; take what is already given. you can find the instructions that have already been so explicitly left for you. you are an adult. your job is to keep moving. you are not allowed to be hopeless — that is a betrayal of everything the palestinian community and its supporters stand for. keep moving. don’t let anyone tell you that anti-zionist means anti-semite. don’t let anti-zionists around you become anti-semites. don’t let islamophobia stand. know that propaganda works and it’s working on you right now. keep moving. you are an adult. your life is yours to care for — that means finding the support you need, which also means knowing the boundaries and needs of those supporting you. you aren’t special. you aren’t alone. keep moving. you are not a hero. you are safe. you have agency. there is nothing you can do that can’t be done by someone else while you recharge. you are part of a collective; no one is looking directly at you. do what you can, and if you can do nothing, make your peace with that. palestine has no time for your shame or your guilt. feel these feelings when they come to you and then move through them.

he’s so great, i love him

…or masterpost about ziall. A VERY RANDOM ONE. you can’t possibly systematize zayn and niall, they are just love and happiness and love and protectiveness and caring and did i mention love?

so, anyway, let’s just talk about ziall for a while. i don’t know where they stand now and neither does anyone here, so let’s talk about what we know and what we have seen alright happy ziall

Keep reading

It starts around 14:50 please listen and write what you thinkk i need opinions im so happy he called him Zayno he sounded genuine imo

My thoughts in a jumbled mess of feelings and incorrect paraphrased quotes:

i’m not sure he actually calls him Zayno? It sounds to me more like he said “Zayn, oh.” As much as I wish it were otherwise. 

NIALL DOESNT UNDERSTAND WHY HE LEFT. HE TRIES BUT HE CANT QUITE PUT HIS FINGER ON IT. HES THOUGHT AND THOUGHT AND CANT QUTIE IDENTIFY IT AND THAT NAGS AT HIM. WHY WOULD ZAYN WANT TO LEAVE HIM? 

“That worked out well for both of us” Interesting narrowing down to just you and him Niall. Hmmmmmmm

INSTANT DEFENSE OF ZAYN “some people are just like that, not emotional in that sense”–don’t you dare diminish Zayn’s way of being and expressing emotion it is just as valid and Niall will not stand for it

NO ARGUMENTS. maybe that bit is party line but Niall just shuts it down hardcore. THERE WERE NO ARGUMENTS

there’s a great regretful sigh. Niall is happy that it worked out, that they’re all happy, that Zayn’s happier–but the sigh. Oh, that sigh. Heaved of pain and the long struggle to get to that point and the regret that Zayn couldn’t be happy with them

“His heart couldn’t be in it as much as he wanted it to be” I don’t know it was just interesting that he phrased it in that way–that it wasn’t as much as zayn wanted it to be. There’s an interesting note there about passionate, impulsive Zayn who needs to be all in about something. 

“not for a while no”–Niall didn’t see it coming for long. Do you think it blindsided him a little? That Niall didn’t conceive of it as a possibility? But also NO ZAYN WASNT PULLING AWAY FOREVER THIS WASN’T FOREVER IN COMING NIALL KNOWS ZAYN LOVED IT ONCE AND FOR A LONG TIME HE WILL CLING TO THAT. 

In other words: i have a lot of feels, but it feels sincere? Maybe that’s me projecting onto Niall, who is of course just as media trained as the rest of them, but I hope it’s genuine, the affection where he says he’s happy, and the mixed up emotions in it. As I said–as long as Niall ships OT5, i’m okay. 

Bahkan, saling mencintaipun pasti akan ada rasa hambarnya. Maka, bertahanlah.

NAH!