little sinkings in the earth

"Sometimes naming a thing- giving it a name or discovering it’s name- helps me begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what the thing is for given even more of a handle on it."

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (via themindislimitless)

"

Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgiveable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

Raymond Carver, “Rain”

I wish. I wish.

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Books I Want To Read Right Now:

Creating Poetry by John Drury

Christopaganism: An Inclusive Path by Joyce & River Higginbotham

"I don’t understand,” Fred said. “What are you afraid of?”
“This,” Nita said, pointing to her black eye. “And this-” uncovering a bruise. “And this, and this-“
Fred regarded her with a moment’s discomfiture. “I thought you came that way. Joanne makes this happen?”
“Uh-huh. And it hurts getting this way.”
“But she only changes your outsides. Aren’t your insides the same afterward?”
Nita had to stop and think about that one."

So You Want To Be A Wizard; Diane Duane (via sijavaisuncoeur)

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onesickbitch:

Love this movie.

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asideeffectoflife:

me: this book brutally ripped out my heart and tore it to shreds then stomped it into the ground as i drowned in a sea of my tears and basked in eternal sorrow
me: here read it

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decision: I am going to start Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad because

1. it is a small paperback
2. it was the book that was lying on my dad’s desk at work when he died…probably the last book he read. wow, how did I not think of this before now? 

infrontofira:

Anna & Elena Balbusso

just finished: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

rememberyourfirstlove:

This excites me.

things I am thinking about lately: I want sweater weather, also baking with cinnamon/pumpkin/ginger, time for soups, reading J.R.R. Tolkien and Ernest Hemingway, visiting David, our first anniversary coming up (!), loud wind and loud rain, maybe finding a church to visit (episcopal?), my room finally being reasonable, the ball rolling in some kind of way…blankets and coats, boots…sigh

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