Organised Chaos

- Does Kathy know you mortgaged the house for me? - Well, it’s not at risk. You’re innocent.

Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,”

— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

you have a mental illness

England vs Norway, Women’s World Cup 2019, Quarter finals

Rosalind M. Baker, from Woman Prayers: Prayers by Women; “Breakdown,”

— Gillian Flynn, from “Sharp Objects,” originally published c. September 2006

Rosalind M. Baker, from Woman Prayers: Prayers by Women; “Breakdown,”

my attention span now: *checks internet every 10 minutes during important task, opens new tab of same site I’m already browsing and got tired of*

— D. H. Lawrence, from a letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith wr. c. January 1915

Christen Købke, Autumn Morning on Lake Sortedam

— Amy Lowell, from Men, Women & Ghosts; “Figurines in Old Saxe,” c. 1916

reminder: nothing is going to change unless you do the work that’s necessary. the work no one else can do. you have to clear up the soil, take out everything’s that rotten so you can plant new seeds. and, then you have to water yourself.