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She/Her | 26 BA in Cultural Anthropology+Communications and Media Studies. Minor in Japanese. (this is a sideblog)

[shakespearesdaughters]

[imperhius]

[macrolit]

Literary Theory, Terry Eagleton

[midnightinshadow]

[academicmiki]

silver fruit hangs heavily on the ginkgo tree

a soft sea breeze blows through the pale green leaves

[mournfulroses]

Alfred Stieglitz, from a letter to Georgia O’Keeffe featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[academicmiki]

creation is divine. making cookies on a tuesday afternoon is divine. knitting a scarf for a loved one is divine. doodling on the corner of the page is divine. making pinch pots in elementary art class is divine. cooking a warm dinner is divine. creating is human and humans are divine.

[petaltexturedskies]

Robert Frost, in a letter to a letter to Louis Untermeyer, dated 1 January 1916, from The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Dvidow-Goodman written c. 1950, featured in The Collected Letters

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Light Catcher, oil on linen, 2012 by Hélène Béland

[midnightinshadow]

[macrolit]

Upstairs and downstairs tenants.

[threeamserif]

instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

[academicmiki]

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱 𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔲𝔰

[classicalcanvas]

Vetheuil (1879) by Claude Monet

[moonss-and-stars]

“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”

- Chuck Palahniuk, Diary