so she replied: show me someone not full of herself
and i’ll show you a hungry person.
Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni
“Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”
― Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
“Little by little,
You will turn into stars.
Even then, my dear,
You will only be
A crawling infant,
Still skinning your knees on God.”
“Failure is not just an option. It is required.”
- Adam Savage
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“It’s hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.”
Susan Sontag
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
– Rumi
“You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
-Louise Erdrich
I find myself thinking of this every time I go for a walk.
What if I am just an apple?