KCelery

“if you deserve
honey
mine will flow from my arms to
yours
no effort, no asking.
but, if there is none
and
you feel wind instead.
know
that my spirit already
senses that
when you smell sweetness
you
begin harvesting blades in your
hands.

- kindness is a form of intelligence”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“You wonder if the birds feel it, too, at dawn - the notion that any direction is just as well - when the water is pink as the sky. I'll bring Agnes next time so she can see it too. What she has seen, already, is how at night, the house - with the kitchen light burning - is like a glow at the back of a very dark throat.”
― Meghan Gilliss, Lungfish

“To begin with she taught me how to tease wool, the process of preparing it for spinning. I learned to pull the wool off the fleece, take out the dirty and tangled bits, part the wool between my fingers until it was of even texture, and then comb it into delicate little rolls.
"It's the preparation that counts in spinning," Anghard said. "If you are lazy about that you will never spin an even thread."...
..."Wool is a living thing," she said once.”
― Monica Furlong, Juniper