Focusing On What’s Rooted In Reality Has Reduced So Much Of My Overthinking Time. If A Friend Is Already

the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older

anne carson is so crazy imagine just saying something like this in casual conversation

2025

you are allowed to have a moment to think before you speak

terrifying sincerity will demand from you the kind of composure and character you are seeking

practice asking yourself questions and answer them without seeking references or resources or answers that others gave

the difference between ritual and routine is faith, and the kind of faith you need to give to your habits—what they each mean to you— is something to be curious, reflective, intentional about. you are afraid that habits will sap your life of meaning, so give them meaning of their own

Lila (divine play)

novelty & magic are rivers, not reservoirs

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

might as well

Maggie Smith, from “Slipper”, Goldenrod

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

— Frank Tyger

Miguel Hernández, from The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez "Elegy for Ramón Sijé,"

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken

did we meet too early? i wish we met earlier