A DIGITAL COMMONPLACE BOOK

Welcome to my digital commonplace book. This page is where I share inspiring words by other people that have been mulling about in my head lately.

Mary Oliver, "Green, Green Is My Sister's House"

I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild and want it back.

Garth Greenwell, from "Forever is a Feeling" liner notes by Lucy Dacus

To love another mortal being is to cast one's lot with the temporary.

Natalie Diaz, "American Arithmetic"

I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself.
I am doing my best to breathe in and out.
I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.

"Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual." (The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin)

CURRENTLY

Reading:
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 11/04/25
The Unabridged Journals by Sylvia Plath 02/05/25

Listening:
I Don't Know How But They Found Me by Jensen McRae 30/05/25
What A Relief by Katie Gavin22/05/25

Watching:
Sirens on Netflix 24/05/25
Heartstopper (S1) on Netflix 06/05/25
Yellowjackets (S3) on Prime 16/04/25