— Anthony de Mello
Angels in love.
Fight about nothing
Laughing over even less
Me and my boyfriend#fivesevenfive
<3 you, @BradstinHard
— Toni Morrison, from this amazing interview in the Guardian.
If I ever get engayged again I want this to be the wedding invitation. Only stick Macy somwhere along the pier as well.
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real…
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If You Come Softly
Audre Lorde
If you come as softly
As wind within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.If you come as lightly
As threading dew
I will take you gladly
Nor ask more of you.You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall remember death.And if you come I will be silent
Nor speak harsh words to you.
I will not ask you why, now.
Or how, or what you do.We shall sit here, softly
Beneath two different years
And the rich earth between us
Shall drink our tears.
— bell hooks
Part of a self-care date I had this weekend was to go see The Vow alone. I cried the whole way through, pretty much. I want there to be queer romance movies.