Keep Company Always

Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. -- Mary Oliver

[brutalgeneration]

[iffranco]

[streamsofcontext]

iffranco:

The Sun ~ Edvard Munch ~ 1911

The Oslo University, Oslo, Norway.

[andthisbreath]

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Ellen Bass

[colorel11]

[hymning-deactivated20120902]

Day One Hundred and Ninety Six. (by Jαred . Tyler)

[exoticadoration-blog-blog]

[thingssheloves-deactivated20151]

[andthisbreath]

It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books— Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Jane Hirshfield, Tree

[suck-s]

[noperfectdayforbananafish]

[aplaceforart]

[earthly-awakening]

awaken your soul

[exercicedestyle]

[into-photography-blog]

Phtographers Alex and Nastya (Near the Lighthouse)

[thephotographerssociety]

Nice crafted portrait. Unusual. Very fine background blur.

Hubertus

[russell-tomlin]

Abstract: Light Glints Off Blue Somehow

[artemisdreaming]

[andthisbreath]

To have a sacred place is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room or a certain hour of the day or so, where you do not know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody or what they owe you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

Joseph Campbell

[lordbyron44]

Ballerina