L'Oceana

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

Adrift Mark Nepo

by Igor Svibilsky

Joy Sullivan, “My Mother Asks How I'm Doing with Just Whisky and Cats”, Instructions for Traveling West

Ada Limón, “To Be Made Whole”, On Being with Krista Tippett

Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

Paul Eluard, “Right in the Middle of the Month of August”, Selected Poems(trans. Gilbert Bowen) (x)

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

painting this on the ceiling above my bed so it's the first thing i see upon waking in the morning and the last thing i see before falling asleep at night

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

Virginia Woolf, 15th of October 1927, Diaries

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals, Nov 5th, 1957

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

May Sarton, from a diary entry featured in "Journal of a Solitude," originally published in 1973

Sinéad O'Connor, from her book titled "Rememberings," originally published in June 2021