#AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL

[paradoxarchive]

i am too in love with life, i don't want to die (i cannot fathom the absence of living)

arthoesunshine | sunlightafterdark | joseph cambell | mary oliver | amy krouse rosenthal | joseph brodsky | unknown | gregory orr | colette, tr by matthew ward | anaïs nin

[jewelleria]

life may be sad, but it’s always beautiful.

the son of neptune, rick riordan / encyclopedia of an ordinary life, amy krouse rosenthal / dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir / romain gary / @arthoesunshine on tumblr / tales from earthsea (2006) dir. goro miyazaki

[theartofangirling]

“good bones,” maggie smith // “the house of the dead,” fyodor dostoyevsky // letter from george sand to gustave flaubert, 27 Jun 1870 // “free,” florence + the machine // “the thing is,” ellen bass // “encyclopedia of an ordinary life,” amy krouse rosenthal // “october,” mary oliver // letter from vincent van gogh to theo van gogh, 11 August 1879 // “etcetera: the unpublished poems of e.e. cummings“ // “livin’ it up on top,” hadestown

[tunisian]

i love this world, even in its hard places

encyclopedia of an ordinary life, amy krouse rosenthal / sometimes it hurts, but i'm happy i'm alive by @sunsbleeding / @arthoesunshine / imaginary conversation, linda pastan / deactivated tumblr user @salemwitchtrials / thank you my fate, anna swir

[angeloncewas]

& I tell her, grief is not a feeling, but a neighborhood. this is where i come from. everyone I love still lives there.

[ textbook amy krouse rosenthal - amy krouse rosenthal // let it be - bertie gilbert // fun home - alison bechdel // what sarah said - death cab for cutie // blakeoftoday // marjorie - taylor swift // andrew garfield // the anthropocene reviewed - john green // a coworker asks me if I am sad, still - brenna twohy ]

[dk-thrive]

You don’t have to necessarily be the best at what you do—there’s always someone better. Instead, be the only one who does what you do.

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir (Crown, December 18, 2007)

[desertgremlin]

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life / The Anthropocene Reviewed

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Family Switch (PG): Bland Freaky Christmas Mash-up Feels Pointless.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Family Switch" on #netflix. #FamilySwitch. Bland, warmed over 'Freaky Christmas' with few smiles. 2.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Family Switch” (2023). Sigh…. While Disney’s “Freaky Friday” (with Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster) in 1976 was fresh and original, this is a genre that has really been done to death. “Family Switch” has some moments of good humour, but overall feels like a lazy retelling of the same old schtick. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: The Walker family – Bill…

[lostography]

This happens to be my immediate reaction every time someone or something truly gets me, I think, 'Oh, this new book/new friend/new sweater will alter the course of my life in a profound way.'

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

[quietflorilegium]

"We might never know why we are here, but we can still proclaim in hope *that* we are here. I don't think such hope is foolish or idealistic or misguided."

John Green, “The Anthropocene Reviewed”

[killj0y616]

“Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.” ― Amy Krouse Rosenthal

[twoflour]

[ID

When I am feeling dreary, annoyed, and generally unimpressed by life, I imagine what it would be like to come back to this world for just a day after having been dead. I imagine how sentimental I would feel about the very things I once found stupid, hateful, or mundane. Oh, there's a light switch! I haven't seen a light switch in so long! I didn't realize how much I missed light switches! Oh! Oh! And look-the stairs up to our front porch are still completely cracked! Hello, cracks! Let me get a good look at you. And there's my neighbor, standing there, fantastically alive, just the same, still punctuating her sentences with you know what I'm saying? Why did that used to bother me? It's so… endearing.

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i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[fiedmehtahkos]

I feel this so deeply inside of me. It shifted something ineffable that I didn't know was out of place. But now fits just right.

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"Death may be knocking on my door, but I'm not getting out of this glorious bath to answer it."

John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed (The final journal of Amy Krouse Rosenthal)

[arthropodboy]

We're here because we're here