Why Do You Study History

Why do you study history

one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

Variations on a Theme - Gabrial Urbina / Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector / Still Unbeaten Life - Gang of Youghts / Saturn - Sleeping at Last

on living just for the sake of being alive

x / here, there are blueberries - mary szybist / invitation - mary oliver / walt whitman / to the young who want to die - gwendolyn brooks / madness: a bipolar life - marya hornbacher / thanksgiving 2006 - ocean vuong / the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoyevsky / the bell jar - sylvia plath

Friends, David Benjamin / Oh Brother, Frank Turner 

it’s all about friends

gentle earth // from “frog and toad” arnold lobel // “glimpse” walt whitman // “recreo” petrona viera // oscar wilde // @beetlejuices // from “a little life” hanya yanagihara // from “winnie the pooh” a. a. milne // fredrik backman “us against you” // @fairycosmos // from “a little life” hanya yanagihara

Titania Sleeps by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1928)