It's a pleasure

"Two joy kittens cast in cheap cloth, that's who we are"

[darklingpearl]

“It is a question, not of being happy or fulfilled, but of being on fire.”

——Anaïs Nin, from A Journal of Love, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1937

[lmm-43]

Your self respect gotta be stronger than your feelings.

[rosehipinthecountry]

[fuckyouverymuch]

We listen to Blur. 

[i-eviscerate]

Claire Finin - The Things I Never Said (2012) 

Mother’s handkerchief, human hair 12 x 12’’

[derangedrhythms]

There are secret saints with strange destinies.

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Sea, the Sea'

[fuckyouverymuch]

We think Arthur Russell was a genius. 

[slam-decorative]

Textile Sample, Dorothy Wright Liebes, 1946–56, Saint Louis Art Museum: Decorative Arts and Design

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/58481/

[harvard-art-museums-drawings]

Design for a Rug, Anni Albers, 1927, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

pricked Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Anni Albers © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Size: image: 21 x 15.6 cm (8 ¼ x 6 1/8 in.) sheet: 32.1 x 25.1 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.) standard frame: 49.8 x 39.7 cm (19 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.) Medium: Black ink and watercolor over graphite with drawn and cut paper additions on off-white wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/226092

[phoebe-xox]

gunta stolzl

[guggenheim-arts]

Merzz. 53. Red Bonbon. by Kurt Schwitters, 1920, Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Hilla Rebay Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Medium: Graphite, colored and printed paper, cardstock, and thread collage with cardstock border

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/3850

[dvrknessabides]

Portland Oregon, spring 2024

[themindmovement]

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character which is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life.

— Joan Didion

[lispectorisms-deactivated202301]

I was having an awful morning but then I read this Polly excerpt I saved and felt a lot better, remembered my priorities: to work on and treasure the things that won't "dry up and blow away"!!!

[angel0logy]

Beautifully said.

[nevver]

Gettin’ Witchy, Psyché Ophiuchus

[rubenista]

Orazio Gentileschi, The Lute Player (detail), c. 1612–1615. Oil on canvas, 100 × 74 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C