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New Words of Wonder!

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New chapter of Magic Hour is up! (It's actually been up for like a week and I just forgot to post it here. Sorry! >_<)

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“You will never be truly happy if you continuously hold onto the things that make you sad.”

— Unknown

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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

— Maya Angelou

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“December snaps shut with an air of finality, teeth all clenched and jaw aching as though the year has let too much into this body- it is done wanting.”

— overfull || O.L. (via poetbitesback)

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MY YEAR-END READING STATISTICS #Wrapped

(originally for the Guardian)

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idk how to flirt but i can make things awkward if you're into that

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“You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.”

— Joanna Trollope

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“Never forget how far you’ve come. Everything you have gotten through. All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you couldn’t. All the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was. All the times you wanted to give up but you got through another day. Never forget how much strength you have learned and developed along the way.”

— Unknown

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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Unknown

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“Some people just can never understand how much they really mean to you.”

— Unknown

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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— C. S. Lewis

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I've been real busy lately because it's December and I work at the post office, so of course I am

But that doesn't mean I can't show up with an unprompted PSA

Hey! Have you ever mailed a letter to Santa Claus? Have you ever wondered what exactly happened to that letter? Well wonder no longer! If it had a stamp and a return address, then odds are that it ended up on the USPS's Operation Santa page!

Every year, the USPS collects letters to Santa Claus, and processes them to black out any identifying information. Last names, addresses, things like that. Then, the letters are posted on the Operation Santa webpage and people can adopt the letters.

Once you adopt a letter, you can buy gifts for them, wrap them up, and package them. Then you get a barcode from the website, and bring them to a post office. The clerk there will scan the barcode, which prints out a label with the address on it, and sends out the gift.

It's anonymous on both ends, and is generally just. A really nice thing to do.

I highly recommend it if you have some money to spare this year and want to give a kid a moment of magic this year

It's one of those things that the post office just happened to be positioned to do, and ended up knocking it out of the park. Unfortunately, I don't think they advertise this nearly well enough, and most letters end up going unanswered

Hopefully, a few more will be answered this year

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“I have buried you in every place I’ve been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands.”

— Bon Iver, A song for a lover of long time ago

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twenty years across the sea

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“Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops”

— Charles Bukowski