when mary oliver said “so this is the world. i’m not in it. it is beautiful” and “i wanted to know, whoever i was, i was alive for a little while” and “mostly, i want to be kind” and “i want to say all my life i was a bride married to amazement” and “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” and “someday we’ll live in the sky” and “i want to love this world as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive” and “have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? and have you changed your life?”
when beach house said “i’ll take care of you, if you ask me to, i’ll take care of you, that’s true.” and when euripides wrote “i’ll take care of you.” “it’s rotten work.” “not to me. not if it’s you.” and mitski said “i will take good care of you, everything you feel is good.” and joni mitchell said “all i really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me, and in you, too, i want to talk to you, i want to shampoo you, i want to renew you again and again.” and
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honestly i think most girls these days feel this deep restless emptiness inside them because no one has access to a field or meadow anymore. you can’t run out of the kitchen with a scarf around your head until you find the nearest empty pasture with hay blowing gently in the wind and just lay in the grass for a long time and listen to the wind until whatever is terrible and hard has passed and you remember that you are made of earth and you will be earth again and then you pick a handful of queen anne’s lace and walk home. girls don’t have empty fields to run to anymore and somewhere deep inside they know that they are missing something vital, and they spend their lives looking for it.
