Good morning, lovely people! There's something quietly powerful about the way a book can show you something true about yourself that you hadn't quite found the words for yet. Monday feels like a good day to pick something up with that in mind.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
“He told me there were truth tellers, and they needed to know what the truth was, so as to tell it. And there were liars, and they needed to know what the truth was, so they could change it or avoid it. And there were bullshitters, who didn’t care about the truth at all.” -- from 'The Secret Commonwealth' by Philip Pullman
Good morning, wonderful people! May is such a good month for remembering this, when the warmth is back in the air and the days are long and generous, that the light we carry inside us doesn't actually depend on the season outside to exist. Mind you, this may also be wishful thinking, as it's been rather chilly here this week!
Have a Fantastic Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.
Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
The bones of native peoples
Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.
From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjohttps://youtu.be/F3eHJYPId1k?feature=shared
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Good morning, all! The year is in full swing, and May is doing its very best out there; a bit of magic and good madness seems entirely reasonable to me. Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
Good morning, everyone! It's something I genuinely believe, that the books we read leave their mark on us in ways we don't always notice straight away, and that a really good story has a way of quietly shifting how you see things long after you've closed the cover. Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
The horror here isn't just supernatural. It's being seen as invisible by the people who are supposed to love you.
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