Elfina
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All things whimsical, complex, and ordinarily magical.
Elfina
This is one of my favorite poems, from Kahlil Gibran
We read it at the beginning of our week-long intensives. https://t.co/KnKqSGF9DG
Here is what the sea smells like.
It is more texture than scent, because the sea is primarily made of two substances that have no smell of their own: water and salt. Salt has no smell, but makes the air sting, and so all of the other smells of the sea are layered upon the pang of salt. Water has no smell but instead a comfort. We feel moisture as
We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel
Understanding oneself
“I’m not one of those people with their heads in the clouds; I’m one of those whose entire body has been consumed by the clouds.” — Antero Alli
I am the clouds, the stars, the sky and the entirety of the blanketed dark night full of life and possibility and dreams and wonder. I am the universe, not just part of it.
codependency, the term used to describe relationships in which one or both partners are focusing on the other’s needs in order to protect themselves from feeling their own pain and fear.
Jessica Baum • Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
interesting!