~ spilling words from open wounds

It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells. To think, this year I will grow into a body you never will have touched. erin, 23, Romania

[lisbonsteresa]

summer thunderstorms are one of the most romantic things in the world, actually

[podencos]

Annie Ernaux's unpublished journal entries

[perriaeyjeve]

[exposenature]

[cinnamonsugarnspice]

My life improved so much when I started forcing myself to do things: forcing myself to exercise, to cook from scratch; forcing myself to go to the movies or to museums alone, to wear that really cute outfit just to run errands; forcing myself to read a book, to strike up a conversation with a stranger, to ask for a raise.

Once you begin forcing yourself to do the things that you had been too scared or too lazy to do, you feel a sense of accomplishment that gives you momentum to do even more. It gets easier to get out of your comfort zone & to do hard things.

[oystersandcaviar]

[wibblyrlin]

Florence Welch at I-Days Milano (2026)

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[waltzingbi]

sunday again i guess

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

[free-my-mindd]

Strawberry moon and her tide

[vintagecameraporrrn]

Robert Doisneau - Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1950. The kissed girl, Françoise Bornet, died this week at the age of 93. Althought Doisneau was a street photographer, he later admitted that the photo was staged. As a reward the model received a signed print of the nowadays world famous image.

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself” by Charlotte Eriksson⁣

[dankomaksimovic]

ph. Danko Maksimovic - Wuppertal, Germany (2026)

Film: Kodak Gold 200

[stuckinapril]

I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??

[stuckinapril]

I love the whole 30 is the new 21 trend like yes queen so true. Your 30s are not for having children and settling down. They are for traveling, building your career, and going to the CLUB. Freeze ur eggs if u must I don’t care. Any 30 something year old woman who’s choosing to enjoy her newfound financial stability and not spend it in an unhappy marriage has my wholehearted stamp of approval.

[stufflikethathere]

I’m only 28 and it feels a million times better than 23. I can’t wait to see what 30 feels like. Becoming an older woman is filled with internal validation, an inner calm, a recognition of patterns. I am not perfect but I accept myself despite it.