exiled on earth

My name is wind. I wander around all alone, come and go without a trace.

[antigonick]

“Unbody me–I’m tired–and get me home.”

— Ralph Hodgson, excerpt of “The Moor”, from Eve, And Other Poems (1913) 

[brutalistarchitecture2]

From Jeanette Winterson's recent substack article

[approvers]

By Rona Keller

[anocturnalanimal]

“Che cosa buffa è la vita, questo misterioso espediente della logica spietata per ottenere un futile scopo. Il massimo che ci si possa attendere da essa è una certa conoscenza di se stessi, che arriva troppo tardi, una messe di inestinguibili rimpianti.”

— Cuore di tenebra, Joseph Conrad  

[raincoyote]

[thoughtkick]

“Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars.”

— Unknown

[abatelunare]

“È giusto lasciare dei morti a vegliare una tomba, perché i vivi se ne stancano presto.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

[transparent-flowers]

Black Velvet Petunia.

[so1987-deactivated20230102]

full offense but a lot of caseworkers, teachers, social workers, who work with the at-risk youth brag of their ability to maintain their tenderness while working with “victims of tragedies” and “the worst humanity has to offer” (really) without thinking about how dehumanizing it is.

and when the client gets half a mind to simply hate your guts for using them for pity points, clients get written off as damaged goods and troublemakers and neglected for it, and the stereotypes about literal children in foster care and related work continue to persist.

[compulsive]

[egalitarianchica]

Children are not a burden. The elderly are not a burden. Stop degrading and dehumanizing people for their age because they require extra care.

[vicodin-white]

“And me, with my wounds, with my violent blood, with my painful and untranslatable experiences,”

— Daniela Crăsnaru, from Letters from Darkness: Poems: “Oxford Street,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[notyourbird]

Der Himmel Über Berlin

(Wings of Desire)//1987

[weltenwellen]

Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923

[solitarygoddess-deactivated2022]

“It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”

— Sylvia Plath (via thoughtkick)

[1000drawings]

by bachtz

[rapaufdxutsch]

“Du musst Rippen brechen um mein Herz zu berühren”

— Blinker - Rippen brechen