Some comfort.
Times are difficult, my house is turbulent and I am very, very scared. But in the midst of all this chaos, I was able to find some respite and I hope this newsletter does the same for you.
- Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
2. Sultanahmet meydanı. İstanbul 1995
3. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
4. Simon Harsent — Irene. Photographs taken at Jones beach after hurricane Irene had passed through.
5. Walt Whitman, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, Leaves of Grass
6.
There is only one question: how to love this world.
Mary Oliver, from House of Light; “Spring”
7.
“How invisibly it changes color in this world, the flower of the human heart.”
— Ono no Komachi, from The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan. (via xshayarsha)
8. BETYE SAAR / FORGET ME NOT / 1977
mixed media collage on handkerchief 12 × 12 in (30.5 × 30.5 cm)
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“Of course we underemphasize our wounds, those of us who must in order to survive. We laugh because this is what we know.”
— — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, from The Freezer Door
With warmth,
Amulya.
