25-02-02-25-02-08 QOTW
Image description: brownish-redish rust on a blue wall. one of the rust spots looks like a heart. Photo by Charles Earl.
Sunday
With illness, you’re totally at the whim of your body. You’re always having your plan upturned, your schedule scrambled, and even if you know the interruption is temporary, it can feel like you’re always going to feel awful and every single thing will be insurmountably hard. Stuck in bed, struggling to do the most basic things, you can feel really isolated. But on that short stroll, standing there in the spotlight of the moon, I felt seen and reconnected to a greater stream of living. I also felt adventurous in a way I haven’t in a long time. I felt wild.
The Isolation Journals with
Moondancing After Midnight& Libby DeLana on unexpected encounters
Monday
What follows may or may not be better than what came first. But the task is not only to let the past go, but also to transform the pain of impermanence into creativity.
Susan Cain, Bittersweet as quoted in La Muse: My edges are frayed this week. Finding solace in poetry, art, living by Monique Mulligan
Tuesday
Instead of depression/try calling it hibernation from a poem by Andrea Gibb quoted by a poem a day on Tumblr.
Wednesday
How much better is silence; the coffee-cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee-cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves as quoted in Apples on a Windowsill by Shawna LeMay
Thursday
I was ravaged by the hunger to ruin my life.
Aria Aber, Good Girl as read in her Between the Covers enthralling conversation with
about the book.Friday
If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more.
Mary Oliver as quoted by Semple Press on their Instagram while discussing lichen.
Saturday
I am free to be sung to;
I am free to sing. This woman
can cross any line.
Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses as quoted in Wanting
Women Writing About Desire, Edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
and now that I know about this poetry collection by Harjo, I simply have to read it.
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