Katherine May, from Wintering: How I learned to Flourish when Life became Frozen 

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

— Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

Hannah Lemholt aka Honeypieliving (Swedish-English, b. southern Sweden, based England) - Untitled, 2024, Photography

what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).

The eternal mourner in the snow. I love my walk to work.

Light and shadow - Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, UK

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

it's rotten work but decay is an essential part of the cycle of death and rebirth

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals