Beautiful Things

Good ol happy calm things For me beautiful is a deep feeling when I see a certain something. Here are some of those things.

[plumstreet]

WHERE is that poem about that person learning all about their partners hyperfixation before getting dumped the last line is like "love is a stack of books on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end" I need it to feel whole help me please

[cielosky]

NYT Tiny Love Stories, 2/11/2020

A Bookmark Near the End

He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. — Julia Nicole Camp 

[zephyr-of-death]

how am I supposed to stay sane after reading this smh

[cy-lindric]

Forgetting faces

[lionfloss]

source

[earthtodes]

[soft-lovely]

murals in interiors

[seaoflove]

— anne carson, from the glass essay

[acatalogueofbeautifulthings]

Fool Me Twice by Sarah Bahbah

I finally feel like I'm here

[acatalogueofbeautifulthings]

i have never been so self aware in my life

it's interesting how loneliness will do that to you

i have never been so lonely in my life

yet now i know why i shut down when a plan changes

or why i feel the way i do about food

why i always felt like there wasn't another option

or why i sometimes just wish i could take off my arm

i have never known so much about myself

in a way this is nice

it's nice to know yourself

i only wish it hadn't taken this

i only wish i didn't know myself so well because nobody else does anymore

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Lesbian; Sacred Sexuality- by Diane Mariechild & Marcelina Martin

[karrova]

Ernest Biéler 1863 - 1948

Portraits à Grindelwald (detail), 1906

[acatalogueofbeautifulthings]

Here for the love of friends. Of the friend who sends me reels that express a type of love she doesn’t know how to voice. Of the friend who lets me call whenever I just need to talk. Of the friend who I relate to too much. Of the friend who I don’t see for six months but when I do everything just clicks. Of the friend who holds onto all the secrets I’ve told. Grateful for this love, the one we take for granted, and everyone I share it with.

[acatalogueofbeautifulthings]

it's strange breaking up and knowing it's not because of a lack of love. i love him so much. we broke up because we knew it was best. that we wanted to learn who we are outside of a relationship, that we didn't want to resent each other down the line because we put so much into a relationship so young. but now we still talk all the time, and i know that's not something you're supposed to do with your ex but it's always so good. i love talking to him. and i live somewhere else now so we're not going to fall back into anything too easily. but you know what?

i hope that in our friendly contact, in our total support for each other, in some years when we're both proper people who know what we want

well that we'll fall back in love

because, far out, it's so good to be in love with your best friend

[acatalogueofbeautifulthings]

and so

we are done

with our cuddles and early morning kisses and our bad movie dates and midnight strolls and our lying in the grass looking up at the stars and holding each other's hand so tight and the romance of the last few years

but not with how we know each other or how we laugh or our hours long phone calls or our support or our hugs that are just so tight or how i know that you are my best friend

we don't have to be together to know that there is love, that there will always be so much love

it was right to go our separate ways, learn who we are as people, grow into ourselves like we wouldn't have been able to

but

if it is right again, we will find our ways back

i have a gut feeling

[acatalogueofbeautifulthings]

And now I have love just billowing out of me, it’s everywhere and I have so much of it to give. I still love you but now in a way that I’ve remembered that I didn’t have to give it all to you for it to be real.

[loverslaundry-deactivated202201]

jeremy lipking/ david hettinger/ nguyen thanh binh / jaime sabines/ lossaparado / phillip geiger x2 / micheal mao/ lucian freud

[its-indigo-not-blue]

writing a cover letter for a job that I would love and listening to Taylor Swift and feeling everything so much right now, life is so exciting

[myfashionburden]

heaven gaia spring/summer 2021 couture