Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, From A Letter To Jane Williams Written In February 1823, Featured In The

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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“[We] have learned much about the nature of grief over recent years. We have come to see that grief is not something you pass through, as there is no other side. For us, grief became a way of life, an approach to living, where we learned to yield to the uncertainty of the world, whilst maintaining a stance of defiance to its indifference. We surrendered to something over which we had no control, but which we refused to take lying down. Grief became both an act of submission and of resistance — a place of acute vulnerability where, over time, we developed a heightened sense of the brittleness of existence. Eventually, this awareness of life’s fragility led us back to the world, transformed. We discovered that grief was much more than just despair. We found grief contained many things — happiness, empathy, commonality, sorrow, fury, joy, forgiveness, combativeness, gratitude, awe, and even a certain peace. For us, grief became an attitude, a belief system, a doctrine — a conscious inhabiting of our vulnerable selves, protected and enriched by the absence of the one we loved and that we lost. In the end, grief is an entirety. It is doing the dishes, watching Netflix, reading a book, Zooming friends, sitting alone or, indeed, shifting furniture around. Grief is all things reimagined through the ever emerging wounds of the world.”

— Nick Cave, from The Red Hand Files #95

Zagreb, 15 October 2024

I had the most wonderful opportunity to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live last night. There are no words to describe such an experience. It was like I was transported in a completely different dimension for two and a half hours. It wasn't just a concert, it was pure magic.