• watching tv/movies together
• sharing secrets
• long hugs
• long phone calls
• deep conversations about random topics
• touching noses
• cuddling
• philosophical discussions
• bring your faces close without touching and feel each other breath
• cafuné (playing with hair)
• tracing designs on arms
• leave hand written love notes
• moving your head to their chest and listening to their heartbeat
• sitting knee to knee across from each other
• doing beauty treatments like facials or manicures, hair dying or face masks
• take care of your partner when sick
• talking about the relationship (how I fee...

• acalentar (acariciar, acalmar)
• aconchego (acolhimento, amparo físico junto a alguém ou algo; abraço)
• álgido (muito frio)
• alvorecer (surgir o dia, amanhecer)
• afligir (incomodar, fazer sofrer)
• afável (acolhedor)
• audácia (ousadia, coragem)
• aurora (claridade que aponta o início da manhã, antes do nascer do Sol.)
• benevolente (que contém ou deseja o bem)
• burburinho (ruído indistinto e prolongado)
• deleite (prazer, sensação de bem estar)
• delinear (traçar o contorno de)
• efêmero (algo passageiro, volúvel, de curta duração)
• escapismo (alívio ou distração mental de obrigações ou realidades desagradáveis)
• fragrância (cheiro agradável que exalam as flores)
• frescor (brisa, frescura)

• dancing without knowing how to dance
• the second before and after a kiss
• looking at the sea
• reading poems
• traveling
• puppy's cold little noses
• endless debates about movies
• watching the sunset at the beach
• feeling belonging and appreciated
• cafuné
• making lists
• giving random compliments
• smelling the neck of my significant other
• writing and reading letters
• lighting candles and incenses
• old books with notes from people i dont know
• the smell of coffee
• butterflies in the stomach
• the moon

Try and think of the nicest thing someone has said about you - that wonderful thing is true‬; please try to think about that kind of stuff more often, especially when faced with thoughts about the opposite.

"you are a survivor, you jumped and survived. to me you are 1 in a million."

"there is only one luna and only one lunna, they are both one of a kind, they are both unique."

"i hope you dream better dreams."

"im better off talking to you than if i wasn't. you're an awesome girl and i feel lucky. lucky to be in contact. lucky to know your thoughts and feelings. lucky to know your dreams and insecurities. i'm lucky to know all of lunna."

"i like saying your name too. it feels like it belongs to my mouth."

"whenever i talk to someone, 30 minutes feels like 30 minutes. but when i talk to ...

• alone with everybody (charles bukowski)
• farewell (pablo neruda)
• finish (charles bukowski)
• mad girl's love song (sylvia plath)
• grow up with me (keaton henson)
• no help for that (charles bukowski)
• nothing gold can stay (robert frost)
• silence (thomas hood)
• sonnet xvii (pablo neruda)
• stopping by woods on a snowy evening (robert frost)
• the road not taken (robert frost)
• still i rise (maya angelou)
• retrato (cecilia meireles)
• song of myself (whitman)
• i stopped going to therapy (clementine von radics)
• alone (edgar allan poe)
• celebração da voz humana (eduardo galeano)
• ain't i a woman? (sojourner truth)

slow progress is still progress

• shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta
• moisturize your hair
• put on clean, comfortable clothes
• put on ur favorite underwear
• drink cold fruit juice and use some extra ice and mint on it
• organize something, your notes, your closet, your desk, spotify playlists
• listen to Maria Rita on loop
• write something, anything, make lists
• watch some 90s tv show
• have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them
• try and think of the nicest thing someone has said about you, or that you have sai...