Soft Mourning

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."- James Baldwin

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Un beau matin (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2022)

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The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967

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Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this photo called “The Kiss of Life” shows a utility worker named J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after he went unconscious following contact with a low voltage line. Thompson over 400 feet away recognized the critical situation and ran to the pole and scaled it to reach Champion. Realizing champion wasn’t breathing he delivered CPR and chest compression while supporting his friend; super impressive /difficult given the angle (if you get it wrong air goes into the stomach and inflates that instead).

This all happened oddly in Champions work anniversary. And weirder Rocco Morabito, a newspaper photographer who had been covering a strike down the road with eastern freight (this happened in Florida btw) happened to be nearby with his camera in a time that no one carried cameras daily. This photo won him the Pulitzer Prize for journalism photography.

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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via childmagazine)

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View from Mam Tor, Peak District, Derbyshire, England

via national trust

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CGdifaHFnN0

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by WeiMinChen

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is she.......you know........

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I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

— Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King

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Harry Gruyaert

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“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

— bell hooks All About Love - New Visions

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“And when you told me what your favorite book was, I bought it and read it over and over… trying to find pieces of you in it.”

— Unknown