I don't know who needs to hear this but you don't need to be productive all the time. You're allowed to have a slow life and you're still worthy of love when you don't have something to offer. You deserve love just by being alive. This includes love to yourself.

Take your problems out to the forest and leave them beneath the trees. You'll feel better, and it's also a good way to feed the monsters of moss and gloom who lurk in the shadows, so it's a win-win.

Everyone swoons over Elon Musk and space travel but let's remember Wallace and Gromit went to the Moon for a cheese holiday in 1989.

. From the latest issue of #ForgottenPoets . . . —Virginia McCormick (fl. 1921-1926) #poetry #poem #booksky

I have thoroughly enjoyed introducing print media and puzzles back into my routine. Now I need a sweet little moka pot and oh — I don't know, a winning lottery ticket so I can do this all day every day 🩷🌸

Reminded of the rejuvenating power of community actions in bleak times

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

Friendly reminder that the weekend before Thanksgiving is officially the beginning of holiday stress season which means it’s alllll mashed potatoes and anxiety meds from here on out baby so lock in

It's never too late to try something new. It's never too late to let your antlers & talons grow wild. It's never too late to cover yourself in moss & wildflowers and shamble about the old forest, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.

I love it that people still read actual books on the tube. Perhaps that's because I am one of them.

I wish to be surrounded by snow and people I do not have to pretend to like.

Reflection Pond in Gorham, NH #reflectionpond #gorham #gorhamnh #newhampshire #newengland #landscapephotography

Don't be so hard on yourself. Leave that to the ancient queen of dark fairies, whom you'll be hearing from very soon, if rumors carried by the ravens are true.

Oaks in Burrator woods this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape

getting ready for winter by reading The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories and like half of the stories (almost all 1800s, almost all european) end with someone dying or something terrible happening. there's hardly any santa at all!

*shock* OVERDUE BOOKS?!

A reminder that writing books is hard, and if you find it difficult, it’s not because you’re bad at it, it’s because it’s hard.

The daily complications of being a writer.

Y’know when Snoopy is on his doghouse yelling in gibberish at things? That’s just me driving in central MA after 5pm because we all forgot how to drive when it gets dark ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Your daily fortune: If your life feels like a bad novel, rewrite the next chapter. Change the genre. Add a boat chase and some sexy ghosts.

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

maybe it’s cliche and maybe it’s corny but Charles Schulz’ Peanuts is basically the best comic

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

Choose kindness. Choose love. Choose books, both fun & powerful. Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.

I don't know who took this photo but I can't stop looking at it. It’s the view from beneath a 400 year old pedunculate oak.

Man, the timeline is a lot today. I don’t have much to add. Just do your best.

Covered Bridge #Photography

Eduardo Paolozzi, “Michelangelo’s ‘David’” (1987), plaster, plywood, and string, 7.2 kg.

Sarah Ross-Thompson, fine art printmaker based on the West Coast of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmake

#CeilingsOnSunday The National Museum, Dublin

An oil on board from April 2017 showing flowers from the garden and a few still life objects. This painting was sold. #art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart

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The elder forest god who gave me my powers and I saw you from across the ominous mist and liked your vibe

There are wolves inside of you, wild and free. There's also a grizzled raccoon who's seen too much, a wine drunk lynx with late night ennui, and a sleepy little squirrel who often feels the weight of the world.

Friday is for flowers 💋

Exhaustion

Whale fall mug with a fall backdrop 😜🐋🦀

I just looked up the meaning of "Wuthering" - as in Wuthering heights - and means "characterised by strong winds." Today is a wuthering day.

Does anyone else get hyped up about all things stationary, or is that only me?

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

*sends sibling a line from a book I'm writing* sister: "first of all, never send me psychotic stuff like that ever again." i. am. losing. my. mind. with laughter

“There are only so many ways to dramatize the problem of being a self, one might think,” Rachel Aviv writes, but Joyce Carol Oates “keeps coming back to it, as if there is something she still needs to figure out.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Z1jWxl

Leaves fall along Tavistock’s old railway line cycle path last week, #Devon. #photography

#WallsOnWednesday Kunst Haus Wien

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your desire to inhale the pages of every book you pick up is something you never need to apologize for. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.

It's been a while since I said hello 👋

Libraries host food drives, have reading challenges with certificates for free burgers & pizza to encourage kids to read, have lunch-at-the-library programs in the Summer, have seed lending libraries to help grow your own food… Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛

..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time. ~ #itswhatwedo