Think of social media
as shared air;
be kind, oxygenate it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157817652-quarantine-notes #QuarantineNotes
#poetry #poetrycommunity #SocialMedia #kindness
nostr:npub1pwxtgfu0lfjkvxsd9up6g0hr9zk4sh3rycf6s75474nkqf8phuaqqgxk5j I paid money for my glasses, primarily, to read books 📚 Then, to see birds, flowers, trees, ocean, sky & occasionally, people, too 🙃
‘To write exceptional #books, you must live an exceptional #life...
The #writer as the conscious manifestation of many lives, many places...
A reality glued together by chance, by the winds, by all that comes free....
To glide through invisibly, observing, leaving things untouched...’
— Jeff Gross, World of Midgets
‘The #artist: the one who has gone places that the spectator knows he himself would go if only he had the time, the energy, the courage.
The spectator responds with applause, with money, because the artist must continue to devote himself, must keep going.
His effort keeps #beauty alive for all of us, his example shows us what is possible, shows us what we might become, reminds us what it means to be alive.’
— Jeff Gross, World of Midgets
nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #motivation #art
Healthy, homemade lunch :
Air-fried turkey meatballs & asparagus
oven-roasted eggplant with cinnamon
& wilted spinach 👨🏻🍳
#food #foodporn #foodie #healthcare #health #selfcare #photography #photo #recipe
nostr:npub1mdkyjchm0jly49hfz3yh4awjuy9v86gk9ycp4k0cmcspr4xpal2stjtw9v I’m grateful for your kindness & hope you will be able to read my book, soon 🪷
Sunflowers by Emile Nolde (1881)
#art #artist #painting #bloomscrolling
The kind things readers say 📖
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nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #books #bookstodon #poetry #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #gratitude #motivation #inspiration
#Today's #meditation :
🪷
Maybe, when the wronged don't retaliate, it invites Divine intervention.
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https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#peace #spirituality #inspiration
nostr:npub1ynlnm43r7dqj965atgx53nrldyqce8tlgsmyp856saxyh92pwv5s3mqlvs Yes, they often do in this tragi-comedy of life…
nostr:npub1cppueu5z5xpp2ruqskuwlth0qtdr7s5mtjrqywruxnq3e0y7gqxq572uya and what makes our spirit small?
nostr:npub1ynlnm43r7dqj965atgx53nrldyqce8tlgsmyp856saxyh92pwv5s3mqlvs Insecurity, ego, pettiness…
#Art by Spanish #Artist, Rosaline de Thelen:
http://www.artandsciencejournal.com/post/47792611726/rosaline-de-thelens-homos-luminosos-spanish
#science #spain #light
The large spirit is slow
to receive a compliment
the small spirit is quick
to misperceive an insult.
#psychology #poetry #books
Between comedy and tragedy, a hairline—the depth of an abyss.
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#comedy ##life
Need to forgive someone?
Read this:
'Forgiveness is for imperfect people like us. It embodies grief and grace: honesty about the past, its joys as well as its heartbreak, and openness towards what lies ahead.
It is about freeing ourselves from the chains of "what could have been" & embracing the grief of "what was."
With her usual wit, the celebrated author Anne Lamott said, "Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."
#healing #memories #life
The spiritual path wrecks the body
and afterwards restores it to health.
It destroys the house to unearth the treasure,
and with that treasure builds it better than before.
— Rumi, translated by Kabir & Camille Helminski
#poetry #spirituality #life #translation #health #wisdom
What we refer to as "the real world" is often our failure of imagination.
#DreamBetter
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html #QuarantineNotes
#books #motivation #inspiration #reality #dream
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."
— Warsan Shire
https://soundcloud.com/yahia-lababidi/no-one-leaves-home-unless-by
#home #trauma #abuse #ptsd #mentalhealth #poetry #refugee
'He who is a proponent of mere blind imitation and of setting aside the intellect entirely is ignorant; and he who is satisfied with the intellect alone... is deluded.
Take care that you be not in either of these two groups, but be one who unites the two sources. The intellectual sciences are like foods, and the sciences of religious law are as medicines.'
— Al-Ghazali (1058–1111)
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'#Science without religion is lame; #religion without science is blind.'
— Einstein (1879-1955)
#quotes #life
The kind things that readers say 🙏🏼
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