[requiem-on-water]

“Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast” (details, 1837) by Andreas Achenbach

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Sidereal Colloquy,"

[miamaimania]

Aqrah, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016) by Safin Hamed ⍋ A shepherd and his flock on the green slopes — AFP / Getty Images

[omenalehto]

approaching rain clouds

[huariqueje]

Attic View - Kenny Harris , 2026.

American , b. 1974 -

Oil on panel, 31 × 26 in. 78.7 × 66 cm. framed 

[petaltexturedskies]

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Mary Oliver, from "Wild Geese" in Dream Work (originally published in 1986)

[mariasworld]

[gothredy]

[pmamtraveller]

Egon Schiele's "Port of Trieste" (1907), drawn when he was 17 years old

[weepingwidar]

Hélène Béland (Canadian, 1949) - Un Capteur de Lumière (Light Catcher) (2012)

[petaltexturedskies]

It takes so much courage to love, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s always been difficult, but in this age and in this culture‚ capitalism doesn’t want love, it wants us to buy and eat a culture that spends its money on defense systems—where so many of our communities are lonely and false, shattered and dangerous, and children’s hearts broken very early.

Marie Howe, from an interview ⟡

[nixscriptum]

[matchagirl]

[pmamtraveller]

“Pause at the Edge” by Cuban artist Tomás Sánchez.

[lronage-deactivated20250901]

Ultima Thule by Henrik Saxgren

[nobrashfestivity]

YAMAGUCHI Takeo Work watercolor on paper 38.0×27.0cm 1960s photo: SAITO Arata

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Stanley Spencer (U.K. 1891-1959)

Landscape, Gloucestershire     1940