Ive Been Reading Every Tove Jansson Book I Can Find In My Language - Moomin And Nonmoomin - And Its Healing

ive been reading every tove jansson book i can find in my language - moomin and nonmoomin - and its healing me

Her fluttered spirit, delicate and soft, bumping against the lamp of life, too hard, too glassy,

Vita Sackville-West, from her poem "In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf" published in The Observer on 6 April 1941

2024

WHEN THE PAWN HITS THE CONFLICTS HE THINKS LIKE A KING

WHAT HE KNOWS THROWS THE BLOWS WHEN HE GOES TO THE FIGHT

AND HE'LL WIN THE WHOLE THING BEFORE HE ENTERS THE RING

THERE IS NO BODY TO BATTER WHEN YOUR MIND IS YOUR MIGHT

SO WHEN YOU GO SOLO YOU HOLD YOUR OWN HAND

AND REMEMBER THAT DEPTH IS THE GREATEST OF HEIGHTS

AND IF YOU KNOW WHERE YOU STAND THEN YOU KNOW WHERE TO LAND

AND IF YOU FALL IT WON'T MATTER CAUSE YOU'LL KNOW THAT YOU'RE RIGHT

Tove Jansson, from the book 'Moominland Midwinter' (1957)

dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

Max Klinger (German,1857-1920)

Triumph, 1878-1880

Etching in black on chine collé