The Patience of Ordinary Things

It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?

- Pat Schneider.

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faeriesfanficblog:

Did you like Derry Girls?

Have you seen Its A Sin or Queer as Folk or My Beautiful Launderette?

Maybe you have seen some of the many viral independent news pieces by the British Channel 4 News team?

Channel 4 is a publicly owned public service broadcaster, but it is not publicly funded.

It funds itself, and it keeps its head above water.

It is also fiercely independent and pretty much the last major media bastion for really holding to the government to account.

The UK government announced this week that they want to privatise Channel 4.

When they held a public consultation on this, 90% of respondants said this was a bad idea.

Those who have informed opinions are pretty much universally against this, and see it as a political move to silence an organisation that consistent represents marginalised communities, stands for diversity, invests in foreign correspondants and holds the government to account by asking awkward questions.

I don’t imagine this will gain much traction outside of the UK and this isn’t the spectacularly detailed post I would like to make with all the links and sources but it is happening and it is bad and we need to spread the word.

laura's mathom house 2022-04-02 07:46:35

mostlyghostie:

Giveaway Time!

This has become easily my most popular drawing since I’ve started making these book prints, (I’ll put this down to a general sense of wistfulness and longing on Tumblr) and I’ve very happily made a good few sales and got some nice reviews.

I’ve been able to bulk order a bit of stock and reduce the price on Etsy as I don’t need to pay the print on demand costs anymore. If anybody would like a copy to put up in their office/bedroom/library (or all 3 at once for those with studio apartments) the new price is up here with free delivery to the US and UK!

If you’d like a copy for free, reblog and tag #dreamlibrarygiveaway and I’ll pick someone out at random on 24/04/22 and post an 8x10 print to you. I’ll also pick 3 others and send out a 50% code.

Let me recommend you a cosy Elizabeth Goudge book

Let me recommend you a cosy Elizabeth Goudge book:

teabooksandsweets:

I have made a new quiz with Elizabeth Goudge recs as the result. This time, I included eight of her books that I consider to have the cosiest, most rural, cottage-y settings, so to speak. I did not include the Eliot trilogy, because I always recommend them the most, regardless of other factors. Have fun!

What a lovely quiz! I seriously want to live inside some of those pictures. Linnets and Valerians was my result, which I’m delighted by because it sounds like a lovely book. I’ve no idea whether this is accurate at all but on first impressions it gives me the same sort of vibes as The Phoenix and the Carpet.

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sk-lumen:

You’re most powerful when you honor your own rhythm. If your circadian rhythm is nocturnal, don’t follow those “waking up at 4 am changed my life” routines because they’re not for you. If you function best when you focus on a single task, single job, single goal, then working half a dozen sidehustles may not be for you. Honor your own rhythm, work with it instead of against it, and you will achieve so much more than if you blindly follow what’s considered “correct” by social conventions of the time.

laura's mathom house 2022-03-13 08:54:41

mostlyghostie:

More fantasy novels!

Of these 9, I’ve read 4, given up on 2, not yet started 2 and am currently reading one. Has anyone managed them all?

This is a nice selection (and lovely art, the crinkles in the spinds are *chef’s kiss*)! I’ve also read four. Absolutely loved three of them—The Lord of the Rings, The Once and Future King, and Pyramid. I enjoyed Circe a lot too, although not quite as a much as the others.

The Lies of Locke Lamora is on my to-read list, recommended by a friend, and I’m quite excited about that one. Same with Assassin’s Apprentice. I want to give the others a proper go at some point too. I remember trying one of the Wheel of Time books before and not managing to get into it, but that was a long time ago so I was probably just too young.