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No tender archaeologist will mend our furious writings,
concluding, “They wanted sweat to taste sweet, that is all,
some of them played music for nothing, some of them
wrote poems to tractors, rough hands, and rough roads,
some sang for no reason at all to judge by their condition.
Dionne Brand, Land to Light on

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“my astrologer said”

virgos inherently know that daily life is sacred; they are priests and priestesses (often) without a religion. daily routine is elevated to ritual through their conscious attention.

every morning, when i take my anti-depressant, i say to myself:

“i commit to this day being better than yesterday.”

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The better you take care of yourself, the more and better you will be able to help someone else and be able to maintain that support.
Babette Rothschild, Trauma Essentials: Vulnerability and Self-Care

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things i’ve learned studying for the gre

an egress is not a mistress eagle,

dotage has little to do with doting,

you cannot eat a canard or a puissance,

and sinecure is not a great new word for what my friends and i generally get up to.

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Still,
sometimes I dream
of a dangerous daughter.
Kate Braid, Inward to the Bones

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What I hide by my language, my body utters.
Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

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FACT

  • joel: the theory shit on my rss feed is all feminist.
  • me: well, feminists blog the most.

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okay,

some fragments of barthes’ a lover’s discourse just make me think he was exceptionally insecure, melodramatic, and lonely. like i just want to pat his arm and tell him everything will be okay.