briery

wildnessliesinwait:

“In sterquiliniis invenitur”—in filth it will be found. This is perhaps the prime “alchemical” dictum. What you need most is always to be found where you least wish to look.

Summer evening

Ask me about the summer
I fell in love with someone
more blackberry bramble than girl.
Aching to be touched
but never talking about the thorns.
And me, all heavy handed
and too proud to acknowledge
the things I’d cut myself on.
I dreamt about juice
running down my chin
for months.

Trista Mateer

Thora Birch, Monkey Trouble (1994)

The coremata of Chionarctia nivea; a male tiger moth from Japan.

The familiar Hebrew word shalom, usually translated as “peace,” means more than the absence of quarreling. Shalom means wholeness, everything fitting together, nothing missing and nothing broken. Just as peace on the world scene means no fighting between nations, no quarreling with other people, shalom for you as an individual means no fighting with yourself, no quarreling between two halves of a divided soul. To wish someone shalom is to with [them] the blessing of wholeness and integrity.

Living A Life That Matters – Harold S. Kushner