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by Virginia Woolf
My local library holds a classics interpretation group; i havent attended yet but this months classic is a passage by Virginia Woolf called Kew Gardens. I gave it a squiz before i put myself to bed tonight and i really enjoyed it. 📓
Its a beautiful passage that is set on a hot spring day in a garden where the narrator explores the thoughts of the men and women whom lay on the grass in Kew Gardens. 🌲🪵🪷🌷
There is a lovely snail she refers back to a couple times throughout and i just love that dude and all he accomplishes 🐌🍂.
Beautiful imagery and a lovely little midday ramble from Woolf 🤍
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29220/29220-h/29220-h.htm#KEW_GARDENS
May 22, 2024
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i have recently started reading this poetry book by mary oliver and it is sososo beautiful <3 it makes me appreciate life and nature more. the loveliest thing about poetry books is that you don't need to worry about forgetting where you left off!! you can read a few entries and call it a day, and then just pick it back up again when you feel like it!!
one of the poems i love rn:
On Meditating, Sort Of – Mary Oliver
Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplished
if you entertain a certain strict posture.
Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.
So why should I think I could ever be successful?
Some days I fall asleep, or land in that
even better place — half-asleep — where the world,
spring, summer, autumn, winter —
flies through my mind in its
hardy ascent and its uncompromising descent.
So I just lie like that, while distance and time
reveal their true attitudes: they never
heard of me, and never will, or ever need to.
Of course I wake up finally
thinking, how wonderful to be who I am,
made out of earth and water,
my own thoughts, my own fingerprints —
all that glorious, temporary stuff.
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Everyday I randomly flip to a page and use it as my guide for the day. Today was one of my favourites, ‘The Summer Day’.
If you’re a nature mysticism truther like myself, Mary Oliver is right up your alley <3
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rereading underland by robert macfarlane - he’s a naturalist and explorer and his prose is bonkers in yonkers. i’m in the chapter about fishing off the coast of norway and discussing the continental shelf drop-off/battle over oil drilling. also reading a radiant curve by luci tapahonso, a mix of poems and prose! when i finish up underland i will be fully ushering in summer w tove jansson’s the summer book :)
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Last night on a whim i bought a 20 dollar second hand fire put off facebook market place. I invited some friends around and gathered my housemates and we all had such a lovely night toasting marshmellows and sharing stories by the fire.
Its winter here in aus and the warm fire was such a lovely treat against the brisk night atmosphere.
You can find fire pits super cheap second hand, and theyre a great way to get your buddies together and enjoy eachothers company. x 🐛🐞
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Far out.
I just watched this movie (so late on the bandwagon) and can fully understand why it was awarded so much praise.
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and never saw what was coming next.
Great commentary on classism and the perpetual cycle of poverty, the imagery was so powerful and shocking.
Its one of those movies where you just feel terrible for everyone involved.
Im excited to read some breakdowns and properly analyse the messages it conveys.
10/10 great film; quite long but so engaging you wont notice.
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