Maranda

[Rachel, Maker of Wild Sparrow Naturals @SpiritedSparr0w]

Some takeaways after my conversation with a hospice nurse of 12 years based on her experience:

1) Many people will not pass away unless they feel ready and this can sometimes mean getting their hair washed, being shaved, or having a bowel movement.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: LOVE

You can love yourself on this day, too.
Feel free to add poems.

[out of context parks and rec @nocontextpawnee]

Happy Galentine’s Day 2023 💕

📸: @iamrashidajones

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

This year I will be kind to myself

[Andrea Gibson @andreagibson]

What part of your life’s record
is skipping?

What wound is on repeat?

Have you done everything
you can to break out
of that groove?

[Mother of sass @sophianotnice]

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the Big Bang.’ The sun said, ‘It hurts to become’”
- @andreagibson

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This is probably the only poem I've written that helps me through the loneliest of nights, when I feel farthest from home—when I don't even know where home is—and I want to share it tonight with you.

[fem top @gayandold]

I already know what my Spotify Wrapped is going to look like

[Kye @GxldSociety]

Me calling God to make sure I ain't on his "Strongest Warriors" list again for 2023

[Maranda @MARANDURAN]

my paycheck dropping on black friday is a blessing and a curse 😅

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

“We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.”

— Audre Lorde

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Forgive yourself for what you did in survival mode.

[queer lit bot ✒️ @queerlitbot]

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Joy is not made to be a crumb.

—Mary Oliver

[gracie @qrracie]

Received this at my grandmas funeral. What an icon.

[Maranda @MARANDURAN]

@kendillywilly @katie_thelady whenever I have ordered pizza delivery they take it to east south street or my my grandma’s house 😅 small town problems for sure

[Sam Stryker @sbstryker]

This is why Quinta won an Emmy for writing

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Dollar General when they see an open field in the smallest Midwest town

[Mark Rapien @MarkRapien]

So cool to get a rainbow and lightning in one shot!