[elways]

London and patronage

[odessagirls99]

Untitled (Elevator), 1999

Ryan McGinley

[thelovejournals]

“After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn… That even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… That you really are strong And you really do have worth… And you learn and learn… With every good-bye you learn.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, You Learn

[elways]

this continues to fuck me up in the best ways possible :) xoxo

[letargos]

Visit Original Link

[munyakare-deactivated20191018]

Brazil (1984) by Elliot Erwitt.

[elways]

Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

[elways]

A summer of secular penance, if you will

[yesdarlingido]

To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.

Barbara Brown Taylor (via yesdarlingido)

[untrustyou]

Jonas Feige

[rieste]

Helsinki

[thunderstruck9]

Darren Waterston (American, b. 1965), Pink Sky, 2017. Oil on wood panel, 14 x 18 in.

[huariqueje]

Lake At Night   -   Isca Greenfield-Sanders, 2019

American, b.1978-

Mixed mediao oil on canvas , 14 x 14 in .

[adrasteiax]

“What am I ready to lose in this advancing summer?”

— Audre Lorde, from Seasoning in “The Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde”

[elways]

Really though

[pi4nobl4ck]

[elways]

Camus

[mothwood]

To encounter anything fully is to touch its absence…

Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Letterbox,” Blindsight (New Directions, 2003)

[thunderstruck9]

Raimonds Staprans (Latvian/American, b. 1926), The Abundant Earth, 1966. Oil on canvas, 38 x 48 in.