On hoping for the worst
Everything Falling Apart, John Tottenham // Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink // No Children, The Mountain Goats // Grow Up With Me, Keaton Henson // 100 Bad Days, AJR // Bohemian Rapsody, Queen // The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure, Brian Larkin // Mad World, Tears for Fears // Donna, The Lumineers
decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.
small monetary things you can do for palestine 🇵🇸
devote yourself to living
gregory orr selected books of the beloved // buffalo sunrise: buson grazing at daybreak in grand teton national park // brianna wiest // rainer maria rilke letters to a young poet // @baronegan // https://www.theawl.com/2013/11/ask-polly-help-im-the-loneliest-person-in-the-world/ // susan sontag // the quiraing, isle of skye @carpe-noctvm // @beetlegarden // amy wollard laura palmer graduates
one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".
Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people
What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
Because the story of your life // becomes your life
- Lisel Mueller
Phoebe Bridgers, I Know The End / Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed / Lisel Mueller, Why We Tell Stories / Sleeping at Last, East / Pat Barker, Silence of the Girls / Brandon Melendez, How to Write the Quantum Mechanics Uncertainty Principle into a Promise to Return Home / Lisel Mueller, The Story / Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out
theindianexpress / pascalchampion / hozier, ‘to noise making’ / titanic (1997) dir. james cameron / my chemical romance, ‘sing’ / abc news / dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir / bertolt brecht
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Robert Hass, from "Faint Music," in Sun Under Wood
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Jack Gilbert, from “Horses at Midnight Without a Moon,”in Collected Poems
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Paul Celan, from “Threadsuns,” from BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION (translated by Pierre Joris)
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Denise Levertov, from “In California: Morning, Evening, Late January,” in A Door in the Hive
since nanowrimo starts tomorrow and I haven't seen that much about it on my dash, let's talk! who's participating and what are you excited about? ✨
