earth’s the right place for love

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[plumslices]

[bladaroza]

the fact that love is everywhere ! its in heart shaped lockets. in blushed rosy cheeks. its in antique porcelain teacups passed down from mother to daughter. in handwritten love letters. its in homemade sugarcookies. in art, literature and history. in our hearts, always and for ever.

[samuliottohenrik]

Second edition of Hilla Kurki's Almost All the Flowers in My Mother's Garden. New dust jacket riso printed at Vallilan seripaja. Published by Khaos Publishing

[michaelnordeman]

July evening in the garden. Värmland, Sweden (July 3, 2021).

[camelliapollen]

[948]

water lily, espresso cup and saucer, glazed stoneware, 2023 by christian.applegate

[journalofsolitude]

Morgan Harper Nichols’ ‘Let July be July’

[tierras]

"Hands of Barnard and Columbia students in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Surrounded by more students holding hands to create a protective perimeter. All unflinchingly staring down imminent threats of suspension and arrest"

subway hands

[blessyourheartlittleone]

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

[michaelnordeman]

Willow tit/talltita. Värmland, Sweden (August 17, 2019).

[japaneseaesthetics]

Netsuke of Basket of Fish, by Shinshinsai Mitsutoshi, late 19th century, Japan

[ingydars]

2023

FIND COMFORT IN THE NIGHT SKY

RUN AND DANCE AND DO IT OFTEN

SUFFERING IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR DESIRE

HAPINESS IS INTERESTING

SANCTUARIES = NATURE + MUSIC + THE BODY

TRY AND FAIL AND FAIL AND FAIL AND LEARN

WRITE EVERY DAY

CONNECT TO URSELF THROUGH WARM MEALS

REGRESSION IS NEEDED TO BUILD NEW RITUALS

REMEMBER THE TREES PERSIST DESPITE EVERYTHING

[calvinandhobbeswithoutcontext]

[alfareria]

I love u ceramics i love u textiles i love u wood carvings i love u glasswork i love u clay and marble and yarn i love u items made and sculpted by hands i love u things made with love and labor and skill

[firstfullmoon]

“Platonic love is vital, essential, and perhaps the one thing left in this wretched landscape that could save us all for a little bit longer than we deserve. I love my friends even when I don’t tell them enough. I have crawled from the wreckage of enough heartbreak to know who will still be standing when I emerge and who won’t, and I hold those still standing close to me.”

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “Carly Rae Jepsen and the Kingdom of Desire” in MTV (via merulae)

[franzkavkas]

You had hardly described our meeting in Berlin when I was already dreaming of it…we weren’t walking arm in arm, admittedly, but we were closer to each other than when people are arm in arm. Oh God, it’s difficult to describe on paper my invention for not walking arm in arm, not being conspicuous, but still walking very close to you…

But wait, I’ll draw it. Walking arm in arm is like this. But we were walking like this.

Franz Kafka, Letter to Felice Bauer, February 11th/12th, 1913

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meditations in an emergency monday. the two-headed calf tuesday. wild geese wednesday. the orange thursday. fall song friday. scheherazade saturday. song of the anti-sisyphus sunday.