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“a community without romance risks being brutish and crass, superficial and brittle, cruel and even muderous. . . i don’t mean just romantic romance. i don’t just mean erotic romance. . . i mean the romance that allows us to soften our voices when we see each other.”

maya angelou, 1998

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eat delicious things in every sense. savor novels that unravel slowly, like decadent meals for the mind. let sunlight kiss ur skin, bask in its warmth like an endless summer. hold close the people who make you feel alive, kiss them tenderly, love them fiercely. laugh at bad jokes, the kind that make you roll ur eyes but secretly smile. plant basil on your windowsill, water it with care, breathe in its fragrance as you stir it into your meals. be unafraid to indulge in beauty, to notice it everywhere and to consume it greedily. there is no virtue in starving yourself of joy, no wisdom in rationing delight.

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Hate that when I say I like the color pink ppl automatically think electric pink … like what about dusty pink ….. do you not gaf ab dusty pink …. Give her her respect

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all these excellent books come from some random penguins house?

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I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn't close.

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you are allowed — no, in fact, supposed to — define beauty on your own terms. beauty has become such a loaded, weaponised, corrupted concept in order to control and disempower us. perhaps precisely because, when wielded with confidence, beauty holds so much power. and i’m not talking just about how you look but about the aesthetics of everything, the art of everyday. beauty defined on our own terms connects us directly with our human spirit, circumventing power structures (patriarchy, capitalism, racism, imperialism, etc) that try to dictate that for us. to control us. aesthetics play a massive role in our sense of self worth, and our sense of self worth plays a massive role in the trajectory and quality of our life. it matters greatly (so it is no wonder we are trained to believe, too, that it’s vapid or stupid). when i talk about finding beauty, training yourself to see it, pursuing it yourself… this is what i mean. forget about the “standards”, you must develop your own taste, your own conviction about what beauty means (it is different for all of us) as a type of creative pursuit, and invest your time, energy, and money into cultivating it. it’s not just for frivolity and pleasure — it truly does create power, and dilutes the power of pernicious power structures too. find the beauty everywhere, on your own terms. please.

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“When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?”

― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

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December Mood🎄✨

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (2005) dir. Andrew Adamson

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One Summer's Day — Spirited Away | by xuan xuan

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currently re-training my YouTube algorithm to only show me beautiful, creative, inspiring, and truly educational videos (lectures, interviews etc) and getting rid of absolutely everything that uses rage bait, outrage culture, cancel culture, gossip etc to bait and gain views. it’s definitely been a big weak point for me in the past, but having space from it then coming back made me notice the low vibe shift even just seeing the thumbnails would cause me. like instantly just feeling worse, without even seeing the actual video yet. even things that are supposed to be critiques and essays but really are just attacking and judging others are a no (there’s a lot of this…). now i have lots of garden and interior tours, slow living vlogs, philosophy and history lectures, literature videos, personal style diaries etc coming through and it feels so so so much better. i am really focused on surrounding myself with energy of others who value taking action and staying true to their passion, rather than people who value gossip and judgement and outrage. definitely recommend if you get tripped up on that kinda thing too 🕊️