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(via thenewborn)
Give me a room with a view
of myself. Leave the flowers to wilt.
Draw shut the curtains. Only open them
at night when the window will reflect me
and I can write about my eyes being
unearthly phenomena. I can write about
my hands and how they droop like lilies.
Give me a sacred place where I can
examine my scars without shame;
where I can pull myself apart like
a birthday present; where I can love
my body quietly and apologize for the wait.
Beautiful
room with a view
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."
- Mary Oliver, from “In Blackwater Woods” (via the-final-sentence)
(Source: growing-orbits, via the-final-sentence)
"This could be called a memory, which feels, sometimes, like the beating of a drum."
- Stacy Kidd, from “Pulse” (via the-final-sentence)
(Source: versedaily.org, via the-final-sentence)
Any time someone questions me, I use this line.
annnnnnd it’s in the reaction gifs folder.
(Source: cat--kat)
"You are loved."
- Jennifer Cody Epstein, from The Gods of Heavenly Punishment (via the-final-sentence)
Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003)
Oh. Sobbing. Okay.
why am i actually crying at this
Mr. Rogers <3
(Source: lemonyandbeatrice, via fishingboatproceeds)
"All educations, we realized then, are not created equal. For Ryan and me, of Pahrump, Nev., just an hour from the city, the Vegas boy was a citizen of a planet we would never visit. What we didn’t know was that there were other, more distant planets that we could not even see. And those planets couldn’t see us, either. A study released last week by researchers at Harvard and Stanford quantified what everyone in my hometown already knew: even the most talented rural poor kids don’t go to the nation’s best colleges. The vast majority, the study found, do not even try. For deans of admissions brainstorming what they can do to remedy this, might I suggest: anything."
-
Claire Vaye Watkins in The New York Times on the subject of college recruiting.
Watkins was on the show a couple weeks ago talking about her childhood in Nevada and writing. You can listen here.
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