Lost in the wilderness

restlessness

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“The only thing people regret is

that they didn’t live boldly enough,

that they didn’t invest enough heart,

didn’t love enough.

Nothing else really counts at all.”

~ Ted Hughes

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta:the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

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"You carry all the ingredients

To turn your existence into joy,

Mix them

Mix them!"

"To Build a Swing" written by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Children dancing on hillside, Naples, Italy, 1948, by Chim Seymour.

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Van Gogh painted Self-Portrait with Palette (1889) at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum.

In the painting, he meets our gaze with intensity and fatigue.

Behind the brush and smock lies not just the artist—but the struggle to stay whole through art.

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"Everything is a path. The mountain is a path, the cloud is a path, the silence is a path."

— Haruki Murakami

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Raymond Carver

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Muriel Rukeyser

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Paul Cornoyer

Christmas in Madison Square Park, 1910

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This illustration was drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien for one of the Father Christmas letters he sent to his children over more than twenty years

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Vincent’s 'Self-Portrait without Beard' was painted as a gift for his mother, Anna Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus. In it, he looks directly at the viewer with piercing green eyes, capturing both his likeness and his inner turmoil.

‘Self-Portrait without Beard’, 1889 © Private collection

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Henri Matisse, Woman in a Purple Coat