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[cavatas]

"I'm in the service of something beyond me."

— Melanie De Biasio

[briargeese]

A summer evening, fireflies, and an annoyed doe wishing I would get out of her territory is about as great as it gets.

[dk-thrive]

If we have no compassion, we will suffer alone, we will suffer alone the destruction of ourselves.

— Wendell Berry, from ""Sabbaths 2005-2008; How may a human being come to rest?" in Leavings: Poems (Counterpoint, April 1, 2011) (via Whiskey River)

[mournfulroses]

Empress Jitō, from a poem titled "The Empress's Song," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

[isabeeellblog]

Te extraño tanto mamá.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— octobersfilm on substack (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[papayajuan2019]

let's not get too imbued with meaning

[despretextes]

Pina Bausch - Orpheus and Eurydice - Paris Opera Ballet 2018

[paper-fairy]

Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[bluewillowmoon]

“The more there is evil in the world, the more we have reasons to create beauty. It is doubtless harder, but it is also more necessary.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky, from “Portrait of a Filmmaker as a Monk-Poet,” an interview with Laurence Cossé, Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)

[zegalba]

Comme des Garçons: Six Magazine (1989)

[iballordie]

Dalle chair by Su Wu

[abigail]

i miss who i was but i will never be her again but also she will always be a part of who i am and i cannot change this fact i will always be her

[aqua-regia009]

Kore metamorfica II, 2025 – oil on board — Agostino Arrivabene (Italian, b.1967)

[metamorphesque]

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

[distantvoices]

By Wang Lei and Jiang Kun for Harper’s Bazaar China September 2022

[papayajuan2019]

it's okay to be misunderstood...... it's part of being.... and we're always being..