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South London Forever

wee heilan coo calf via taylor ridge homestead

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

— Ellie Mae O'Hagan, Losing my Welsh: what it feels like to forget a language

Mealtime is an extremely important cultural and social ritual. There are psychological benefits for cooking for other people, and serving a meal stabilizes the emotions between the provider and the receiver. Cooking with your partner, like accomplishing any task together, strengthens relationships. Eating together strengthens communal bonds and helps with mental health. Sharing the same food with someone else builds trust, cooperation, and a sense of connectivity. It’s a shame how in our fast paced society we don’t value the importance of regularly breaking bread with one another

5.  “Today is a day like any other: twenty-four hours, a little sunshine, a little rain. Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another―why don’t you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.” (mary oliver, from “black oaks”)

water jewels in the spiderwebs

— “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

— Su Shi, from To Governor Xu on a Mountain-Climbing Day (tr. by Xu Yuanchong)

— Octavio Paz, Last Dawn (via theperfumemaker)