[engulfes]

it really is all about love i think. like that’s our whole purpose

[shiningattic]

“An “angel” is anything that carries out a mission for God. This includes forces of nature. […] Photosynthesis? That’s an angel. Gravity? An angel. Magnetism? Angel. The Midrash in Bereishis Rabbah (chapter 1) says than an angel only performs one job. That job doesn’t have to be destroying Sodom; it could be peristalsis, centripetal force or condensation.”

— Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, Angels (via torat-chesed-al-lashona)

[angelethic]

when jenny slate said “I realize I want to hear my voice and only mine. Not the voice of my voice within a cacophony of old pains. Just mine, now.” and when toni morrison said “I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got.” and when mary oliver said

[sightofsea]

oh god I had a really big epiphany about love and personhood but I'm too drunk for words. hold on I'm gonna paint it.

[sightofsea]

this. this is it.

[firstfullmoon]

the mary oliver voice in my head every day: mostly i want to be kind! mostly i want to be kind! mostly i want to be kind!

[electricraccoonincident-deactiv]

In these bruising days, any delicately made thing quickens the heart.

— Teju Cole, from “We Can’t Comprehend This Much Sorrow”

[boykeats]

july in appalachia by keaton st. james

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[weltenwellen]

Marya Hornbacher, Waiting

[reindeerspotting-deactivated202]

my fav conspiracy theory is that everything will turn out ok eventually

[my-kelde]

Nancy Spero. Artemis, Goddess and Centaur, 1983.

hand-printing on paper

[firstfullmoon]

“Love is holy because it is like grace — the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

— Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead

[wordfather]

well maybe the power of love would fix things did you guys think of that? if not we could try biting

[fairywomb]

“So come here. Let me love those bruises out of you. We’ll love like children with a box of bandages- we won’t ask where it hurts. We’ll just kiss all of it.”

— Ashe Vernon, from “Robin’s egg heart(break)” (via drearydoll)

[tordenvejr]

vulnerability is clumsy but it’s the only thing worth anything

[darflores]

On Being Podcast: Ocean Vuong- A Life Worthy of our Breath

[antigonick]

“—here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and for ever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.”

— James Baldwin,  “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation”, in The Fire Next Time

[sib-studies]

“The Age of Gold”, photographed by Charlotte Hadden for MENE Jewelry.