joy
is such
magnificent
resistance

🦋

The world is basically a drunk poet slamming its fists on the table yelling, “LOOK AT THE MOON. LOOK AT THE WAY YOUR BEST FRIEND'S HAIR SMELLS. LOOK AT THE FACT THAT SAND IS JUST TINY ROCKS, DO YOU GET IT YET?”

~ thetinyjoyproject

we have survived so many fires,

i can no longer tell if we are alive

or simply burning.

- pavana

let your heart break 🦋 so your spirit doesn’t

- Andrea Gibson

“Every time you choose to stay kind in a loud world, you are already healing something.”

- Ajmal

sometimes
night wakes in the middle of me
and i can do nothing but become
moon

~ Nayyirah Waheed

Hymn for Every Version of You This New Year Be more present for the universes inside you. Make more pilgrimages to the interiors of your own heart. Clear away the smoke, the wreckage that tries to convince you that you do not deserve joy. Tell your friends you love them more often. Tell good people they are needed; include yourself in that list. When love comes knocking, do not doubt it. Instead open the door with warmth and let it in. When grief claws at your window, don't ignore it. Instead, hold it close and let it stay as long as it needs. Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name. May you be greeted by birdsong often. May hope curl up like a well loved old dog at the end of your bed every night. And when the ruins of your past call your name, remember the monument of courage you built in their place. - Nikita Gill

“Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name.”

how many times have you been in love?
he asks

perhaps ~ a hundred times
since yesterday..i say

with the willow & moon
the galaxies & wonder
the poem & the melody
the lies & the truth

the puppy
the monotony
the snowfall

the dawn

🦋mw/25

💕

it’s the dance..

🦋

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

all the flowers!!

🤶🏽

💯

And the part people rarely admit is this: your politics expose the limits of your imagination long before they expose the limits of your intelligence.

Warpaint Journal - full thread credit

They show who you instinctively protect and who you're comfortable overlooking.
In the end it's not about sides at all.
It's about who you believe deserves care and who you quietly leave behind.

They show what you notice and what you choose to ignore.
They show the fears you inherited, the biases you never questioned, and the limits of the world you imagine for others.

Your political views aren't just opinions.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.

You start to see that growth isn't about knowing more, it's about being brave enough to question what you were sure of.
And the more awake you become, the lonelier clarity feels, until you learn to stop expecting everyone to meet you there.

Not everyone wants awareness.
Some people just want relief.

Curiosity demands humility, and most egos won't survive that.

(Warpaint Journal)

If you feel torn between the heaviness and the beauty, you're not unstable.
You're human in the most honest way possible.

And somehow, with all that happening inside you, life still expects you to keep moving, run errands, answer texts, remember passwords, act functional while you're holding emotions that cancel each other out.
Here is the quiet truth behind it.

What no one prepares you for is the contradiction of it all. Feeling completely overwhelmed by life while still noticing the way light falls on a wall. Feeling broken by things you never talk about but showing up like nothing's wrong. Losing pieces of yourself and finding new ones on the same day.

One part of you is grieving something you can't even name, and another part is moved by the smallest, softest things for no reason at all.