[riverwindphotography]

Jeweled Waters

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, July 2026

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by Jozef Tomaszewski Oshawa, Ontario Canada

[petaltexturedskies]

Lola Ridge, from “Silence” in To The Many Collected Poems of Lola Ridge

[lingeringtwilight]

It waxes and wanes.. but never ceases..

[evoketheforms]

“What if it’s the there and not the here that I long for? The wander and not the wait, the magic in the lost feet stumbling down the faraway street and the way the moon never hangs quite the same.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson | Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series | Perigee (Penguin), 2014

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Al primo soffio di vento (Franco Piavoli, 2002)

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"I can't tell you any stories," I say, "because I've got this gap. There's an empty chasm between me and everybody else. I wave my arms about inside it but I can't get hold of anything, I shout into it but no one hears: it's total emptiness."

"In those situations I sing…"

– Italo Calvino, from “Wind in a City,” Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories (Vintage, 1996)

[nevver]

Kind of blue, Yuri Yuan Ye

[bluesonplanetmars]

[mournfulroses]

“…I have been struggling to find my safe place and sufficiently trust it. I have been struggling very hard.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to James Wright written c. October 1962

[degantystiltai]

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Home Movie, New mexico, 1949

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

— Jack Gilbert

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[academic-vampire]

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔪𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯

[bellsandforks]

“On the train, I much prefer a book to a newspaper, and not only because it’s less cumbersome. The paper doesn’t absorb my attention enough and, above all, doesn’t take me sufficiently out of the present.”

Six Contes Moraux: 6. L’amour, l’après-midi (1972), dir. Eric Rohmer

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أحد الأحلام التي أود أن أعاود التصديق في وجودها هو الأمان في إظهار الضعف أمام الآخر، والتصديق في وجوده بدلًا من الركض المستمر، والتكور على النفس، واليأس، زي ما قال علي شريعتي لزوجته:

"‏أنتِ الوحيدة التي لو اطّلعتِ على ضَعفي، لمَا كانَ ذلك ثقيلًا عليّ."