[elixir]

Moonrise Phyllis Shafer — 2015 oil on canvas

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church this morning

[ladanaide]

“She dreamed again that night—as she would repeatedly for years— of a river, a boy named Khaled with a white streak of hair, and a girl named Mariam with a wooden box of papers and pencils, who would greet her in Arabic: "Salaam ya nur oyoon Mamdouh." Greetings, light of Mamdouh's eyes.”

[ladanaide]

[redrola]

[int3rnvlfl0w]

[ladanaide]

[ladanaide]

“J'avais oublié que la visite était minutée, mon mari et ma fille attendaient leur tour. Je me rappelle avoir gardé le silence. Je voulais simplement les toucher, je voulais qu'ils me touchent, je voulais inhaler leur parfum jusqu'au tréfonds de mon âme et l'emmagasiner là pour le restant de mes jours.”

[hayaomiyazaki]

LA BELLE SAISON (2015) Summertime dir. Catherine Corsini

[terminusantequem]

Whitney Bedford (American, 1976), Veduta (Bonnard L’Hiver), 2022. Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel. 243.84 x 243.84 cm

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[toiich]

[ladanaide]

“They met on the first Thursday of every month in a spot they claimed as their own. Anguished by exhausting patience and unredeemed love, they finally agree it not sinful to hold hands, and from the dexterity of interlacing, squeezing, gripping, and caressing fingers, their hands created an amorous language that spoke of complicity and promise.”

[before-life]

Palace of Versailles, France by lunardust

[jean-doe]

[thisismaie]

[jaaaamila]