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“It’ll be all right.” Julia’s gentleness makes it worse. “In the end, Jace.” “It doesn’t feel very all right.” “That’s because it’s not the end.” ― David Mitchell, 'Black Swan Green' #Literature#Photography Photography Brassaï (1949), 'Paulette et André', Paris.

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LQragbonehair.bsky.social

I think we've all read Maggie Smith's fabulous Good Bones poem, but I always think this one by Fleur Adcock is related in the protection of the small theme.

For a Five-Year-Old

A snail is climbing up the window-sill
into your room, after a night of rain.
You call me in to see, and I explain
that it would be unkind to leave it there:
it might crawl to the floor; we must take care
that no one squashes it. You understand,
and carry it outside, with careful hand,
to eat a daffodil.

I see, then, that a kind of faith prevails:
your gentleness is moulded still by words
from me, who have trapped mice and shot wild birds,
from me, who drowned your kittens, who betrayed
your closest relatives, and who purveyed
the harshest kind of truth to many another.
But that is how things are: I am your mother,
and we are kind to snails.

Fleur Adcock
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Hfootenotes.bsky.social

Give yourself time and gentleness - your body was tuned FOR YEARS to an all-day caffeine IV drip It's going to take time to feel better after withdrawing that Good luck

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JFpapihustle.bsky.social

Compressor sidechains are horribly abused now of days. Doing it with subtlety & gentleness in service of the track is a lost art

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FEmutantoide.bsky.social

and this is why I use language that irritates: no gentleness allowed. It is not my fault said mind and spirit is weak, adolescente. I've dealt with 1,000 better than you: appreciated em, protected em, mentored em. And bc this is Colombia-SouthAm: 🤍ʟᴏsᴛ ᴍᴀɴʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇᴍ🤍 Be gone, ye leech. //end

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his eyes closed and his mouth open .
a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his eyes closed and his mouth open .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his eyes closed and his mouth open .

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POsumirewitch.bsky.social

i think sometimes it is hard to feel softness when you can never turn off the hardness. giving myself permission to relax when my wife hugs is me... surprisingly hard. that permission to let go and have her gentleness come in. we all have our own barriers to it

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euamominipigs.bsky.social

calaboca irmao vc nao sabe nada sobre mim at least i know kindness at least i know gentleness e voce e tem um cu no lugar do cerebro

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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength." Saint Francis de Sales #kindness

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gene53.bsky.social

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:22

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birdheartedgirl.bsky.social

🍂 we could learn a lot from the gentleness of trees

RDrangedan.bsky.social

Fading sunset seen through tall, silhouetted trees. Strands of pinkish clouds mix with blue sky behind them.
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