holly valley

notes to self | insta: hollyisavalley

[holly valley @lilbeanthoughts]

“I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple—or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel.”
-Mary Oliver (Upstream)

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

adulthood is a perpetual tug-of-war between wanting to stay up late reading and wanting to fall asleep by nine like a little bear

[Liz @lizzard1278]

I was told there would be a handbasket.

[sara PRE-ORDER THE RED SACRAMENT 7.7.26 hinkley @boneysoups]

Louise painted the fuck out of these plums 400 years ago

[Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202]

2019: avoid negative people
2020: avoid positive people
2021: avoid people
2022: a void

[holly valley @lilbeanthoughts]

beanstalk could be read as bean stalk or beans talk

[Saad Maan. سعد معن 🇲🇦 @SaadMaan15]

Tolstoy: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Taleb: All blow up stories are alike; each success story is unique

[holly valley @lilbeanthoughts]

@wheres_my_pen i keep shows or a certain length playlist on so i can keep track of time too hahaha 🥲

[Prakriti @prakritea17]

I go to do the dishes & end up taking a shower with a spoon

[Of The Trees @OfTheTrees]

life is so beautiful

[Ariel Poets @ArielPoets]

I come as a woman
dark and open
some times I fall like night
softly
and terrible
only when I must die
in order to rise again.
—Audre Lorde

[Mary Oliver Bot @MaryOliver_Bot]

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I can’t work forty hours, I need at least three days a week to stumble down Wikipedia rabbit-holes gathering up little trinkets of knowledge until I become the world’s most annoying person

[holly valley @lilbeanthoughts]

an interesting tidbit from a document about the fair use of poetry in case anyone was wondering:)

[Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge]

“We talk so much of  light, please
let me speak on behalf

of  the good dark. Let us
talk more of how dark

the beginning of a day is.”

@maggiesmithpoet

[holly valley @lilbeanthoughts]

“oh you’re fine. when stuff starts talking back, that’s when you need to worry”

[mountain mommy @viewswithellen]

i really don’t want to have seasonal depression this year

[Kimberelayne @KimCald21389330]

@maggiesmithpoet “I trust that by this point you’ve adjusted to your particular hellscape.”

[Lillie E. Franks, on her bad content arc @onyxaminedlife]

I apologize for not responding to your e-mail sooner. One day all of us will have to convince ourselves we spent the gift of time on earth well.

[Terry McMillan @MsTerryMcMillan]

Have a soothing evening and a tender tomorrow.