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Artist Haidee Becker Paints A Picture Of The Good Life At Her Home Studio In North London

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Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

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"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."

Wild Geese - Mary Oliver

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“Don’t be a victim of your own mind.”

— Unknown

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Fauré: Après un rêve, Op.7, No.1 (Arr. Cello & Piano)

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reading a poem a recipe author wrote about her mother who passed and tearing up………. thank you bread recipe for the small dose of heart and tenderness 🥺💖

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The idea that everyone knows something you don’t is such an important one. It changes your perspective entirely. You become humble to the man living in the streets because he knows how to survive in ways that you could never imagine. You become humble to the woman serving you fast food at 2 in the morning because she knows how to stretch every dollar to feed her three kids. If you pay attention, you can learn something from everyone you encounter. Everyone has their story; everyone has something to teach you. And you have something to give to the world too. Go ahead, tell them what you know.

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“The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what happened to you.”

— Eleanor Longden

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“When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself.”

— St. Frances de Sales

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Hi love, hope you’re well. Could you suggest some poems for beginners? Ones that are easy to understand

Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

Pablo Neruda, “I’m Explaining a Few Things”

Langston Hughes, “I, too” & “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” & “Harlem” & “Theme for English B”

Philip Larkin, “The Mower”

Ada Limón, “The Leash” & “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance”

John Donne, “The Flea”

Alice Walker, “My Friend Yeshi”

Kim Addonizio, “What Do Women Want?” & “For Desire”

Raymond Carver, “Hummingbird”

Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer”

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Dirge Without Music”

Seamus Heaney, “Digging” & “Mid-Term Break” & “The Rain Stick”

Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”

Wislawa Szymborska, “Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition”

Carol Ann Duffy, “Hour”

W.H. Auden, “The More Loving One” & “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Danusha Lemeris, “Small Kindnesses”

W.B. Yeats, “Down by the Salley Gardens” & “The Stolen Child”

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Wandering Around an Albequerque Airport Terminal” & “Two Countries” & “Kindness”

Matthew Dickman, “Slow Dance”

more or less anything by Sara Teasdale

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Intuition

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“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”

— Jane Green (The Beach House)

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echo park be reading your soul sometimes

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Mary Oliver, Invitation