amargedom:

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”

— Maya Angelou

childofdoom:

my friend just texted me “it’s not acceptable that trump feels good about himself and you don’t” and i think it’s the most motivational thing i’ve ever read

His name was Toni
(or at least I imagine it spelled with an i)
and we met in a coffee shop.

He had impeccable style:
an ivory scarf with black print.
Blonde ringlets and blue eyes.
I noticed these things second.

I first noticed the pile of books
he placed on the table
when he took the seat next to me.
One of my all time favorites was on the top.
This is how we met.

I taught, he learned.
That makes sense,
he said again and again.
He gently pulled his scarf side to side,
to one side of his neck then the other,
symbolizing the unseen back and forth
within himself.
He did this when he was processing.
The active irony of anxiety meeting truth.

He wrote my email on the inside of the book.
I told him not to forget,
and that I hoped we’d speak again.
Kaylee,
he said,
that’s your name.
It’s nice to meet you.

I smiled,
for by this time,
it was not merely me whom he had met.

3.24.18

theclivechronicles:

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”

— Till We Have Faces // C.S. Lewis

noorshirazie:

“I make my body a living prayer whose force would shake the mountains.”

— C.S. Lewis