What A Year This Week Has Been.

mary oliver, from the deer

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

September 11th, 2024 | Rereading the Lord of the Rings

I finished The Two Towers last night! Definitely very different from the Fellowship in terms of pacing, but I liked it too. All the characters are well fleshed-out now, very excited to start the Return of the King!

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Barbara Crooker, “And Now It’s September,” [ID in alt text]

oh september, how you have my heart.

favourite thing in the world is when the pages of a book go all soft and yellowy and the edges are slightly fuzzy and rounded. these books couldn’t give you a papercut if you tried they’ve been loved too much. they love you too much

Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.

— C.S. Lewis

“How do I look away now that I have seen you?”

— — Rachel Mennies, from “April 18, 2017,” The Naomi Letters