leafy lil tree

i was tagged by @praalgraf thank you so so much, this was such a lovely exercise <3

i’m tagging: anyone who wants to do this trend! (please do it, it’s a good time)

 all theory is gray, my friend. but forever green is the tree of life (faust, johann wolfgang von goethe)

a tweet from my friend that was like “so what you’re telling me is i fell in love with a a war? and no one was going to tell me it ended??” 

women are born with pain built in. it’s our physical destiny (fleabag) 

i am a man with a heart that offends / with its lonely and greedy demands /  there’s only a shadow of me, in a matter of speaking, i’m dead (sufjan stevens, john my beloved) 

a tree says…i am life from eternal life. the attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique…i was made to form and reveal the eternal (herman hesse)

from what we are: spirit. from what we do: matter. spirit and matter are one. (phillip pullman, the subtle knife)

walk through the night, straight to the light / holding the love I’ve known in my life / and no hard feelings (the avett brothers, no hard feelings)

for Octavio

There’s a book called “A Dictionary of Angels.” No one has opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers creaked, the pages Crumbled. There I discovered

The angels were once as plentiful As species of flies. The sky at dusk  Used to be thick with them. You had to wave both arms Just to keep them away.

Now the sun is shining Through the tall windows. The library is a quiet place. Angels and gods huddled In dark unopened books. The great secret lies  On some shelf Miss Jones Passes every day on her rounds.

“Fresh air, sleep, and rest will help to make you strong.” In Training For Health. 1935.