#book: grief lessons

[mylyy]

Anne Carson, from Grief lessons: Four plays by Euripides.

[haleyincarnate]

i am both the land mine and the one who steps on it i am the one who grieves the loss and carries the guilt

Brianna Pastor, Good Grief

[fleurral]

i always grieve, but i still believe.

[sakshinarula]

[leonieanderson]

To fill the silence within us with light, breath, a voice and love that is how we create poetry.

Leonie Anderson

[cartoonchaos]

“gee i wonder why there’s still so much more fanfiction about male characters” “we need more morally complex female characters” “i love relationships that are doomed by the narrative” “more stories need to treat mentally ill characters with compassion and respect” “all his problems could’ve been fixed if he only went to therapy” you fuckers can’t even handle the ending of fionna and cake

[sillytriumphdragon]

Life is cruel. We want something different, something better. We try to make it so, but things often turn out far beyond our expectations or imagination. Life shows us, again and again, that living is not easy. It puts us through one test after another, and each new test feels harder than the last, making us think the previous one wasn’t as bad as it seemed.

Along the way, we lose many treasures in this one life, some of which are gone forever. We continue living without the people we never thought we could live without. We experience all the colors of life before death. Maybe death is easier, and those who left are now in a better place.

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

"Losing a loved one has a way of revealing a too-simple truth: that time, as people often claimed but never heeded, really was precious." - from "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus

[geniussloci]

Herakles, Anne Carson

[bshocommons]

Besides, even if he knew every word in the English language, he still wouldn’t have any idea what to say. Because what does one say to someone who’s lost everything?

Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

[sivavakkiyar]

tbh I only know maybe like 3 works of Anne Carson’s well (tho I was talking to a friend recently who works at a bookstore & is training to be a librarian…we were talking about like fancy prints of new books that aren’t really meant to be read and held and I mentioned Nox which I haven’t read as maybe an example and he straightened up immediately like God pulled a string from his soul to heaven and said “shut up, Mark.” So I guess that one’s pretty good)

but terfs really used to claim her, hard. Was that ever actually rooted in anything?

[littmel15-blog]

I will forever always love being a girl.

i’m at the age where i know what a first love feels like.

And I live in a room that is not shared with anybody’s personality but my very own.

The world can crumble down but It won’t matter because i can always cry on pink sheets.

The same girls i grew up with can drive now, but we’ll blast Taylor Swift and Nick Jonas like we did as kids anyways.

We’ll cry over boys, and chemistry homework but fall in love with poetry and the fruit of life it gives.

And we’ll match our nails to our outfit and compliment girls we’ve never spoken to.

We are girls, and one day we’ll outgrow the same room we’ve grown up in. But today i’m a teenage girl who feels too much for her own good and for that i’ll never ever wanna change.

[anthonywilson]

The Wind and the Rain is coming

Next month I will publish my sixth collection of poems, The Wind and the Rain, with Blue Diode Publishing. I am launching the book at St Mark’s Church, Pinhoe Road, Exeter, on 15 June at 6pm. If you are nearby, please feel very invited to attend. There is an Eventbrite page to the reading on my events page here. I’m sharing the event with Josephine Corcoran, who will be reading from her brand…

[stevenlachanceentertaiment]

People of the Page

Has Anne Rice use to open up her postings use to say, “Hello people of the page.” The world is a duller place without Anne for sure. Don’t you agree? I got the opportunity to interview her once. It was something I will always cherish. We have a lot of new people following my page here and I wanted to take a moment to address what this page actually is. This is my personal page where I share with…

[sakshinarula]

[georgiasedify]

Closer than you think

Closer than you think

In one unsuspecting moment, everything can change. A relationship can shatter, a dream can suddenly end. Your heart can break for a million different reasons: grief rejection loneliness uncertainty tragedy betrayal I don’t want my heartbroken again at all. Pain is growth. God is with you through it all. He drew closer to me and pulled me right out of darkness. Bring your pain to Jesus…