Rue

Tag: environment

  • Mieko

    Happiness can be defined in all kinds of ways, but human beings, consciously or unconsciously, are always pulling for their own version of happiness. Even people who want to die see death as a kind of solace, and view ending their lives as the only way to make it there. Happiness is the base unit of consciousness, our single greatest motivator. Saying “I just want to be happy” trumps any other explanation.

  • Three films

    • The Worst Person in the World (2021)
    • Maborosi (1995)
    • Scrapper (2022)

  • Before June ends

    Song

    • Look On Down from the Bridge – Mazzy Star

    Youtube

    • @cemeteryf0g

    Film

    • Aftersun (2022)

    Book

    • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

  • Checking In

    Hello, Lavenders,

    How’s everyone doing?

    There’s a fire near my place. The sky is tinted orange. I’m a bit scared, but it’ll be okay.

    I don’t have many words in me today, so I’ll leave you with a song—Conan Gray’s cover of Video Games.  His voice feels sad, like he’s sitting with his own loneliness. It touches that part of solitude we all carry, but in a tender way.

    Thank you for stopping by my little lavender fields.

    I hope you’re all safe and warm.

    God bless and goodbye!
    ~Rue

  • Bird Wings

    Hello, Lavenders,

    How was your first week of 2025?

    Yesterday, I went to watch Flow (2024), a film I’ve been wanting to see for a long time. There’s no cinema near my college, so I haven’t been able to watch films as often as I used to. But now that I’m on break, I finally had the chance to go. I’ve been waiting to see Flow before it left theatres. The reviews were glowing, and I didn’t want to miss it. I found a small independent cinema, and the moment I walked in, it felt like home.

    I grew up on a little island where the animal population outnumbered the humans. We didn’t have big cinemas, only small independent ones. I used to take an hour-long bus ride every weekend with my friend to watch films. We were in our film buff phase back then, watching nearly every release that came out. Those bus rides were long, but we loved them. We’d talk about the films all the way home — what we liked, what we didn’t, what the director could have done differently. As we grew older, things changed. Life got busier. Exams, new responsibilities, different paths. The one of us moved to the other side of the island, making it harder to meet. Our trips became less frequent. But even now, whenever we meet, we always make time for a film. It’s our little ritual, a reminder of the days we shared popcorn, seeing who could fit more in their mouth at once and ending up choking from laughing too hard.

    Watching Flow reminded me of that.

    The film was beautiful. There was no dialogue, yet it spoke louder than words. And it stayed with me long after the screen faded to black. There were no humans in the film, but every wave, every crack in the earth, every storm felt profoundly human. It showed how we try to conquer nature without ever realising we’re part of it. How we take and take, blind to the damage, until everything stands on the edge of collapse. And how, in the end, it takes sacrifice to bring balance back to the world.

    For some reason, when I think of humanity’s habit of taking too much and leaving things broken, I’m reminded of Bird Wings by Valium Aggelein — a side project of Duster. The song carries a kind of sadness that lingers, mourning what’s already lost, while holding on, desperately, to what little remains.

    Thank you for stopping by my little lavender fields.

    God bless and goodbye!

    ~Rue