cooking and cleaning is a basic life skill and not a gender role🗣🗣
“None of us said a word, we just kept ourselves to ourselves.”
— Lars Saabye Christensen, from Beatles
(Arcadia, 2009)
It’s so healing to wake up in a silent house and silently make your own coffee or tea and enjoy the beautifully intricate fullness of the morning silence while remaining calm and collected and unbothered by all outer and inner noise and it’s so low-key elevating and pacifying to rejoice in the silent atmosphere of your own house and just silently block the rest of the world…it’s a slice of heaven
“Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.“
I read last week that the Redwoods, the tallest trees on Earth, have a root system that doesn’t go deep into the ground, but instead interweave far and wide with roots from nearby trees. This is how they create a support system during storms. I find that so beautiful and comforting, especially having moved so often in my life. That our roots don’t have to be in a place, but rather in people. And no matter where we are, we carry the ones who are closest to us with us, moving forward together, growing tall.
awaken your comatose heart.
do not let worldly troubles
diminish its glow.
Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)
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