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Accept that good won’t last, and acknowledge that bad won’t either.

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Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!

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Chickens complete !

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Three years ago at sunrise.

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Octavio Paz, from "Sunstone", The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

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The lake: early morning in July.

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Cloudscape. Details: Wooded Hilly Landscape, 1785, London, by Abraham Pether.

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sometimes I wonder how we all survive and then I look at my best friends and I go “oh, I survive because I don’t want to leave you yet” and it makes sense. life is so hard a lot of the time, but I want one more bowl of pasta with you.

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i mean this completely seriously but… a cup of coffee can save your life a little, a shower can save your life a little, making your favorite meal can save your life a little…….little things actually add up to really big things in the long run if you let them, the secret to surviving everyday is infusing a little bit of magic into the mundane i truly believe that

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Poppy

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YOU must fix your heart (noone else can do it for you, it has to be you)

you MUST fix your heart (there is no other option, you cant carry on like this)

you must FIX your heart (the joy and light is already inside you, it's just wounded)

you must fix YOUR heart (enough, look after yourself like you do others)

you must fix your HEART (get right to the core of yourself, thats what needs care)

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Jenny George

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Look. Look. I think the hardest thing about your twenties is the shift from getting shoved towards new frontiers of maturity by, like, puberty and education and the logistics of gaining independence, to you having to shove yourself. It’s a mental recalibration from “you grow up whether you like it or not” to “you can and should keep evolving, but now you have to choose it. And you have to choose it a half-dozen times a day in increasingly annoying ways. And this sucks but the reward is that you get to be a person in the world.”

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It’s cold and it’s sunny and I’m going to live.

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too much self reflection is not a good thing honestly. go outside and plant a garden and then cook yourself a homemade dinner then mop the floors and change your sheets and take a hot shower then you won’t care so much