(Source: stephdavis)
things i am thankful for:
- traditional lunch at la madeleine with Mim.
- bringing ice cream to my wisdom-less childhood bestie.
- Mim & I got in a car accident and are okay (her car is not). a foot or two more to the left and the other driver would’ve smashed my leg.
- summer thunderstorms.
- Mim’s old chocolate lab, Tootsie, who loves me.
- impromptu sleepover (even under inauspicious circumstances).
- relief found in driving familiar roads.
- friendships with longevity. knowing that I am loved by whole families so that their homes feel like mine too.
home. (Taken with instagram)
"The idea of grace had been so much on my mind, grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials."
Source: Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
baby birdies (Taken with instagram)
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(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
Source:
- Mary Oliver, “The Uses of Sorrow”
This is the poem with which I concluded the journal I’ve kept since freshman year. It’s only the second journal that I’ve completely finished, and it came to me just months before I started fighting depression. I’ve never been so attached to a journal before. In reading every page, I am amazed to see what God has brought me through so far—and what he continues to make of me.
gingerandtwinkle replied to your post: book thrifting…
where at??
I found most of them at a library sale for 25 or 50 cents each. I found Cather, Robinson, & Didion at a massive used book store here in Virginia (my parents moved to Prince William county last summer, so I’m further south). Honestly, the public libraries in your area are much better than the ones here…I miss that a lot. But Inklings Books is a used bookstore that would be closer to you. They opened right before we moved, so I never got a chance to visit it.
book thrifting
Today I found:
- Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (Lyndall Gordon)
- My Ántonia (Willa Cather)
- Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
- The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- Seek My Face: A Novel (John Updike)
- The Essential James Joyce
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
Total spent : $13.
"At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care for each other…it’s usually a bunch of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we’ve chosen those people, we tend to stick close by, no matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping, and sure sometimes close can be too close, but sometimes that invasion of personal space - it can be exactly what you need."
Source:
Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
[this is the biggest lesson of my junior year.]
