[sheholdsyoucaptivated]

[kafk-a]

Mary Oliver

[jeanambrojo]

Aegean sea

[weltenwellen]

Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

[oaluz]

10 self-love-encouraging questions to ask yourself from here

will this choice propel me towards an inspiring future, or will it keep me stuck in the past?

will this choice bring me long-term fulfilment or short term gratification?

am i standing in my power or am i trying to please another?

am i looking for what’s right or am i looking for what’s wrong?

will this choice add to my life force or will it rob me of energy?

will i use this situation as a catalyst to grow and evolve, or will i use it to beat myself up?

does this choice empower or disempower me?

is this an act of self-love or self-sabotage?

is this is an act of faith (love) or fear?

am i choosing from my divinity or am i choosing from my humanity?

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

“All I knew about Cuba was that people drove old American cars and that Ché Guevara was tied with Bob Marley as most popular poster in dorm rooms. Then my friend Erin invited me on a 2-week trip to Havana. The first thing I noticed in Havana was that the city was dark at night. There were no streetlights, porch lights or living-room lamps. It was pitch black except for the faint colorful glow spilling out of open doors everywhere, and it came from the TVs. The light captivated me. For the next two weeks I wandered around, slipping in and out of strangers’ living rooms. Each time I came across an open door and a working TV set, I would ask if I could take a picture. The answer was always yes. Nobody seemed to think it was an odd request and it was usually accompanied by a Cuban coffee or rum.”

Simone Lueck

[virginph1-deactivated20201115]

“Not Everything is Fleeting”

[nervespike]

takaoka

[emmastory]

David Foster Wallace correctly predicts Netflix binging in 1996.

Everyone’s experience of this sort of thing is different. But for myself, I have found that since I emerged from the internet-based hibernation of my 20s and replaced a lot of my TV and video game consumption with live theatre and dance and city exploration and concerts and burlesque and parties, I am happier and more satisfied with existence than I have ever been in my life.

[museiums]

artist: angela mckay

[dreamglue]

Apple Tree, 2016

[weltenwellen]

Sachiko Murakami, from “He Said She Said”

[thenordroom]

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[luxoffux]

[roundtop]

Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear so immediately that the two of you, on some level, belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you’re in love or creating things together or foxhole buddies or partners in crime. It’s so clear, right off the bat, that this is what you’re supposed to be doing, that this is what you’re for. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest of circumstances, and they help you make a life. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but. It definitely makes me believe in something.

[ryebreadgf]

ordinary things, s.t

[hughdykecy]

- fleabag (2016)

[antigonick]

“—how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints— all that glorious, temporary stuff.”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “On Meditating, Sort Of”, in Blue Horses