Read to Live

Because books are mostly less frightening than people

[llleighsmith]

made a small zine today after meditating while i was reflecting on my own approaches to honest loving. you can read the whole thing on issuu and if you would like to support my work, you can purchase a digital copy of this zine and several others at gumroad.com/llleighsmith

[theintrovertnation]

[loumargi]

Félix Thiollier (1842-1914)

[elokuunkuu]

[franziepanzie]

Parsonage Gardens, Didsbury, Uk

[franziepanzie]

Front door of the Old Parsonage, Didsbury, UK

[franziepanzie]

Fletcher Moss Gardens, Didsbury, UK

[franziepanzie]

Illustration from Silently by Night by Russell Peterson

[redlipstickresurrected]

Yoko Akino 秋野 暢子 (Japanese, b. 1967, Kyoto, Japan) - The Cat And The Moon   Etching

[lesbianshepard]

the older i get the more i can understand why people back in the old fairytale days would just fuck off and be a hermit in the woods. just chilling out in the middle of nowhere and occasionally telling random heroes cryptic shit. living the fucking dream.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the older i get the more i understand the fucking hermit resurgence of the 1990s

[normal-horoscopes]

I CAN CONFIRM THIS ITS REALLY WONDERFUL YALL SHOULD TRY IT SOMETIME

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sovietpostcards]

“March in the Forest” by Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, illustrated by P. Bagin, 1988 (buy)

[learnloveover]

“There isn’t enough of me left for myself.”

— Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “The Finder of a Horseshoe,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[drunk-on-books]

You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world—that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature—but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.

Franz Kafka

[zagreus]

[oglach-uisce]

Honestly

[thenighteternal]

[franziepanzie]

Day 4 Batober

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Feel that I’m excluded from something vital. The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

Liv Ullmann, from Changing (via violentwavesofemotion)