whole bevies of shooting stars

[theinternetarchive]

linen center with bobbin lace border; average: 38.8 x 38.8 cm; flanders c. 1800s.

[pinkroseatte]

what is the point if i can’t lounge in la perla all the time

[bostonpoetryslam]

“Do you do with your old sadness what the thunderhead does with its rain?”

— Diane Seuss, “The Knight’s Dream,” from Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

anything that brings out your childlike wonder is worth giving your attention to

[luthienne]

Craig Santos Perez, from “Love in a Time of Climate Change”

[Text ID: I love you as one loves the most vulnerable / species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss. / I love you as one loves the last seed saved / within a vault,]

[modedamour]

[reemillustrated]

snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!

[achillesinhighheels]

[sophiaeck]

Is this true #Myfear

[petaltexturedskies]

You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move.

Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Sidonie Nádherná, dated 1 August 1913

[occidentalist]

Ethnic cleansing is not just the active removal of a people by force, it is also creating conditions that necessitate their displacement. Every single Ghazzawi who has been displaced to Egypt or elsewhere as a result of this genocide is a victim of ethnic cleansing unless their unconditional right of return is afforded to them, which likely it will not be. Keep that in mind.

[occidentalist]

I just get weary of every time a Palestinian family is helped to flee Gaza seeing that framed as a ‘success story’ or a happy ending. These people were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by Israel. That is a tragedy. It is only a ‘success’ in that they live to see another day. The conditions which were manufactured specifically to make their displacement an existential necessity should’ve never been imposed upon them in the first place. They should not have had to flee their homeland with the likelihood they will never return to escape a holocaust. I need you all to understand that. It’s a happier story, yes, but it’s still a fucking tragedy.

[sapphoisms]

“I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon.”

— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle 

[soracities]

“you see the earth now as an oval jewel, radiant & seablue with love.”

— Margaret Atwood, from Flying Inside Your Own Body  (via wishbzne)

[tinyghosts]

“It’s said that you can never go home again, and it’s true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop going back, no matter how hard you try.”

— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram  (via justlikereallife)

[weltenwellen]

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[noodlesinbroth]

Shell dish, made by Robert Hennell of the Hennell family silversmiths, British, 18th/19th Century

Found at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Department of Product Design and Decorative Arts

Source

[ortut]

Etsuko Ichikawa - The Water Within Cube 10, 2018 (Hot cast glass with uranium)

[starrover]

“I am the tiny wave that has no other region except the sea, I tussle with myself, I glide, I fly, laughing, giving, sleeping, but alas, always within myself, always within myself.”

— Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart