a little communication goes suchhhhhhhh a long way. If you’re busy, say it. If you’re upset, express it. If you’re running late, let people know. If you don’t want to do something, be straightforward. If you’re unsure, ask. It’s so simple but so so so important.
…again all my nerves stood upright, flushed, electrified (what’s the word?) with the sheer beauty — beauty abounding and superabounding, so that one almost resents it, not being capable of catching it all, and holding it all at the moment.
Virginia Woolf, from Selected Diaries
Look at that sea, girls — all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I’d call myself a fool to ask for more…
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Tumblr is just a nice little place where you can take off your ‘real person’ face and roll around in piles of garbage tailored to your unhinged hyperfocus five minutes before you stand up and go back to your zoom meeting
