a scrapbook of inner life, a topography of wonder

horse oats | she/her | milwaukee, wi

[bronzyglow]

this blog is a museum of my heart

[rotten-angel-food]

[wavesofundoing]

When people truly love each other, they experience far more than just a mutual need for each other’s company and consolation. In—or through and because of—their relationship with each other they become different people: they become more than their everyday selves; they become more alive, more understanding, more abiding, more enduring, more patient, more courageous. They become better people. They are made over into new beings. They are transformed by the power of their love.

Thomas Merton, Love and Living

[animentality]

[edwordsmyth]

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

[petaltexturedskies]

Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from Letters Summer 1926

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[exitwound]

Youre a mollusk and something potentially bad or scary gets inside you what do you do. Make a pearl around it. Okay. okay

[hagenlastkiss]

Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Lollapalooza, Vancouver, 1992

📷 Lance Mercer

[heavensghost]

my favourite quote by Richard Siken

[leahberman]

past limbo; angeles national forest, california

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[soracities]

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

[marmoriiss]

[poloniumtherapy]

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison Gathering 2025 Robert ParkeHarrison is an American artist born in 1968. He isb known for his work in photography and sculpture, which often explores the relationship between humans and the environment.

[weepingwidar]

Ed Ruscha (American, 1937) - No Sleep (1965)

[thehmn]

Wait…why are busses depicted as a dangerous way to commute in American media?

I never really thought about it before but busses are one of the safest ways to commute to work I can imagine. I’m not ever worried when I take the train but if I had to pick which I’d feel more safe on it would be the bus.

I used to travel between towns late at night when I was a teenager/young adult woman and it would be straight up cozy and a nice way to end my day.

I think a bus feels safter to me because the driver is always right there in case something happens, while you’re kinda on your own on a train late at night.

[aetherograph]

So did you ever see Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Remember the plotline about the Red Car trolley being bought out and dismantled by Cloverleaf, and the villain's Big Reveal that they planned to demolish Toontown and put a highway through it, and people would use it because the Red Car trolley wasn't there to use anymore and so they'd be FORCED to buy a car?

That really happened, in the US. Only instead of the villain being an evil cartoon posing as a judge, the villain was General Motors and Ford and all the big car companies. They bought public transit lines and dismantled them. They lobbied congress to fund the interstate highway system and they CONTINUE to lobby the us govt to keep trains and public transit from having any money, while making sure the roads get lots of it. They are responsible not only for the dismantling of public transit but also the public's perception that public transit is bad and even dangerous.

American media thinks busses and trains are dangerous because the car companies have spent DECADES and billions of dollars on propaganda making sure Americans think that so they will continue to buy cars and not question how much roads and highways have destroyed the landscape.

[pingintech]

its also a healthy dosage of classism and ableism and a hatred of homeless people and addicts all of which are the largest demographic of people who use the public bus

[huariqueje]

Evening Interplay - Alice Dalton Brown , 2000.

American , b. 1939 -

Oil on linen , 26 × 34 cm.