1. Encouragement
healing isn't about filling your life with pleasure
or never having a hard moment again
it's about being real
and facing what you feel
so that it doesn't accumulate in unhealthy ways
being with the down moments is better than
carrying unprocessed pain everywhere you go
Yung Pueblo
#lighter
2. Poetic Compass
Burning the Old Year
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
Naomi Shihab Nye
the words won't come together to compose an apt apology.
part contrition, part resignation
recurring flashes of embarrassment, disappointment, and acceptance.
One wonders where the regulatory self wanders
why do you allow utterly asinine behavior
to reflect who you are (sweet girl)
but you know why
she does it
so let it go.
(I wanted this one tho.)
3. The will to stay in (when being called out to play on a Saturday night)
Exhaustion can be a delicious feeling.
Surrendering to it is a joy.
4. ❤️
5. MusicMOOD: Ryuichi Sakamoto
6. Graceful gestures
(Thank you for sharing your light.)
7. Begin Again.
#wakingup
8. So much inspirational music
#simplybecauseyourenearme #soonerthanlater #idontwantwhatihaventgot
