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Petra
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germany | books, music, nature, art, and a great love for theatre 💚
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‘Like most children, I liked writing stories. As a young teenager, I noticed everyone else had stopped.’

Joseph O‘Connor
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November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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ph: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team (STScl/AURA) via Instagram
A photo of deep space from the Hubble telescope “features a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star”
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Really looking forward to this! 💚
"Stations opens in a small town in the Irish midlands in 1982, when teenagers Róisín and Red strike up an unlikely but ardent friendship. The book follows them to London, a journey many of us made then, where they eventually take very different paths. Spanning twenty-five years, it's about love and loyalty and the choices we blithely make when we are young, unaware that the consequences will reverberate through our lives. The novel has been more than three years in the making and the sweeping temporal frame and changes of location challenged me in the best ways.
October 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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‘…the seagulls rose up from their various perches along the rails and flew slowly, with us. (…) And gradually the City of Dublin started receding in the mauve twilight of a May evening…’

Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls: The Lonely Girl
Nocturne, Railway Crossing, Chicago (1892 – 1893) by Childe Hassam
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Threads braucht man wirklich nicht zu nutzen.
September 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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This so reminds me of her books… 🖤 Patti Smith Creates a Detailed Packing List for Going on Tour: Haruki Murakami Books, Loquat Tea & More www.openculture.com/2016/01/patt...
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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On Being Podcast with Jane Goodall, who still does so much for animals and their home 💚 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/o...
They will not listen if I raise my voice and point an accusing finger. Instead, they will become angry and hostile, and that will be the end of the dialogue. Real change will only come from within. Laws and regulations are useful, but sadly easy to flout. So I keep the anger, which of course I feel, as hidden and controlled as possible. I try to reach gently into their hearts.
September 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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‘The subjugation of women was the dominant theme in their existence. (…) We don't see it, of course, because we live with so many options ourselves. But Jane Austen's novels are all about the subjugation of women.’ bbc.com/culture/arti...
An engraving of Jane and Cassandra Austen doing needlework together, dated 1810 (Credit: Getty Images) via BBC article
September 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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‘To make a declaration of love is to move on trom the event-encounter to embark on a construction of truth. The chance nature of the encounter morphs into the assumption of a beginning. And often what starts there lasts so long, is so charged with novelty and experience of the world that in retrospect it doesn't seem at all random and contingent, as it appeared initially, but almost a necessity. That is how chance is curbed: the absolute contingency of the encounter with someone I didn't know finally takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.’
September 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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‘More than imitating nature, the flower painter elevates it. One artist whose masterpieces dared to accomplish this “impossible” task, Goethe said, was Rachel Ruysch.’

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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‘Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike.’

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
You can't listen to the Thanksgiving Address without feeling wealthy. And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness. The Thanksgiving Address reminds you that you already have everything you need. Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike.
August 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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‘Between lovers there is that something to be said, but what gets said is either too much or too little, never the one living word.’

Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
August 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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what perfect album came out when you were 16?
July 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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‘early in the morning... a coffee... preferably when the city is sleeping, when people are sleeping, when you seem to own the universe…’

Patti Smith 🖤
Develop a discipline "I think having routine is really helpful. For me, I get up early, go to a cafe, or, if I don't have a cafe to go to, to my desk or somewhere, early in the morning... a coffee... preferably when the city is sleeping, when people are sleeping, when you seem to own the universe, and spend some time with yourself writing, and make that a habit. I try to do that every day, and I think writing, a lot of it is discipline and labor. We can be inspired at any time - in the middle of the night, we wake up at three in the morning - but there's so much labor to be done, it's good to develop a work ethic and a discipline.” - NHPR 2015
July 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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‘The sound of bees foraging from flower to flower seemed to deepen the stillness.’

J L Carr, A Month in the Country
July 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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‘You get happy in the little things and the big things.
And if the result isn't what you dreamed of, it doesn't kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It's important that we enjoy the doing of our life.’

David Lynch 🖤
Black-and-white photo of David Lynch via nitch on instagram _nitch David Lynch // "I'm just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting...working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing ! noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it's not that much happiness. And yet that's our life going by. If you're transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn't matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn't what you dreamed of, it doesn't kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It's important that we enjoy the doing of our life."
May 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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‘…so many of our most steadfast patterns are begun in those years between childhood and adulthood.‘

Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
April 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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…and dream of spring…
Apple blossoms and a few green leaves laying on a concrete tile floor in the sunlight, some dappled shade.
April 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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‘I felt helplessly at peace. The rain dissipated. My shoes were muddied. There was an absence of light, but not of love.’

Patti Smith, Devotion
April 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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‘Most often the alchemy that produces a poem or a work of fiction is hidden within the work itself, if not embedded in the coiling ridges of the mind.’

Patti Smith, Devotion
April 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Three books by Patti Smith lined up in a row on a wooden surface: Devotion, Woolgathering, Year of the Monkey.
March 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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‘No Access’ by Ian Wood

Wildlife Photographer of the Year via Natural History Museum London www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
A badger at night, illuminated by a nearby lamppost, seemingly looks up at the graffiti of a badger on the wall.
March 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Portishead
Elbow
Talk Talk
R.E.M.
Air
A band for every letter in your first name.
February 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“I quoted Edna O’Brien to [Barbara Broccoli], and she said, ‘Oh, you should make a film about Edna O’Brien. She’s one of my best friends.’”

The making of ‘The Blue Road‘, a film about Edna O‘Brien by Sinéad O’Shea www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Black-and-white portrait of Edna O’Brien with bobbed hair, looking up away from the camera and smoking a cigarette. Excerpt from the article: About three-quarters of the way through Sinéad O'Shea's new documentary, Blue Road, about the writer Edna O'Brien, the camera lingers on a well-thumbed Marcel Proust biography with a Harrods receipt as a bookmark. We see many other things in the London apartment where this footage is recorded - cake tins, Christmas cards, a walking frame, handbags, an orchid, a portrait of Samuel Beckett, miscellaneous clutter - but that biography and its bookmark might just be the perfect encapsulation of the lady of letters and glamour upon whom the documentary is based.
February 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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80 years #weremember 🕯️
Wer sich seiner Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt, sie zu wiederholen. GEORGE SANTAYANA Philosoph Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat it. GEORGE SANTAYANA Philosopher
January 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM