Holly Venus

A person.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

Alan Watts died 50 years ago today. His beautiful meditation on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness: https://t.co/p8MYofr7Bw

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

May Morris, embroidered hanging, c.1900, English embroiderer and educator who helped raise the profile of textile arts and women in the arts #womensart

[L.A. Public Library @LAPublicLibrary]

Don't mess with The Linda Lindas.

Watch the full concert: https://t.co/Usv7HJ1lLR

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Japanese artist Aiko Tezuka carefully unravels and re-weaves elaborate textiles to form new shapes and patterns #womensart

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The Peace of Wild Things – #EarthDay with a Wendell Berry classic, newly animated https://t.co/Qd1CR5CIQJ

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

And now for something different for #EarthDay, a lovely perspective on what makes our planet special from a Nobel-winning poet and a pioneer in the search for intelligent life on other planets https://t.co/5Kd13FA2Et

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

James Baldwin telling it like it is, folks:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

"Do you like me?
How absurd!
What's a question like that?
What's a silence like that?"

Anne Sexton would have HATED Tinder:

[Timothy Yu @timpanyu]

Poetry hasn't gotten much love on lists of Asian American books to read. Here's a thread of 15 classic & contemporary books by Asian American poets you should be reading right now.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”

This makes me cry every time: George Saunders on the power of kindness, animated: https://t.co/8pUp9r1xaO

[Holly Venus @hollyvenus]

In the universe next door,
I’m gone

and the shadows
of the leaves

of the elm I had pulled down

still make a fuss
over the earth.

-Rae Armantrout

[Holly Venus @hollyvenus]

https://t.co/lpapyo8G6r

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat."

One of the greatest poems ever written, by Derek Walcott, born OTD in 1930 https://t.co/TdYY3VdTlb

[LGBT Foundation @LGBTfdn]

Responding to the census does not require you to reveal personal information to your household.

You can request a separate online or paper form which is confidential & overrides your information on a household form.

Find out more https://t.co/pMEsQvbG9I 

#ProudToBeCounted

[Holly Venus @hollyvenus]

"The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
like a blue flower, in his beak
he carries a silver leaf. I think this is
the prettiest world-so long as you don’t mind
a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life
that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?"
-Mary Oliver

[Holly Venus @hollyvenus]

"There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity." - Alan Watts

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul,
right solitude oils it.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

—Jane Hirshfield, born #otd in 1953

https://t.co/kMI2eHEGMS

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Today, I woke without answer.

The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend

don't despair of this falling world, not yet

didn't it give you the asking

—Jane Hirshfield

https://t.co/Nz6sUguSDR

[Curt @curt194]

For the absolute avoidance of doubt:
Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Non binary people are non binary.
Transphobia in any way shape or form is bigotry and not acceptable. Being otherwise liberal does not exempt you from this.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

A soulful illustrated meditation on how to live with our human fragility https://t.co/jT0s0Ayqr8