this is the last time

[ordinaryamericana]

A woman lying down on the floor, smoking cigarette, surrounded by record albums, including “Lonely Girl” by Julie London, released 1956. 

[plastiboo]

[boobookittenartblog]

Foie Graphics

[lychens]

"i’ll lighten up eventually, but lately i’ve been deep diving into the “gift of tears” an ancient belief that some sorrow is sacred. ⠀ early monks called it penthos: sorrow that cleanses, a second baptism. not weakness, but recognition but of beauty, grief, love and loss. a way the soul speaks when language fails. ⠀ i’ve cried lately over kindness, grief, animals mourning their people. and it doesn’t feel pathetic. sometimes it feels devotional. ⠀ they said if you cried during prayer, it meant divinity was near. ⠀ if you’ve cried this week, maybe it wasn’t just sadness. maybe it was holy."

-Foie Graphics

[vintagewildlife]

Coyote pups By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

[vintagewildlife]

Kitten afraid to step onto a glass surface because it can see the drop below By: William Vandivert From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

[seema-b]

She's Gotta Have It (2019)

[jca-archive]

Masao Saito, 1983

[vintagewildlife]

Coyote By: Ron Winch From: The Order of Wolves 1976

[vintagewildlife]

Wolf By: P. Lefebvre From: The Order of Wolves 1976

[389]

Rapture (Ganimede) 2012 by Agostino Arrivabene

[mol1yaquafina]

[guy60660]

Agostino Arrivabene

[vintagelasvegas]

Backstage at Folies Bergere, Tropicana. Las Vegas, 1969. Bettmann archives.

[monixxdesign]

Sony 32” Trinitron XBR (1988)

[luh4en]

[marypickfords]

La madre e la morte (Arrigo Frusta, 1911)

[cocainejuul]

Tsiiyééł

“…a traditional hairstyle worn by both men and women where hair is gathered and tied up in a bun, signifying the high regard Navajo people hold for their hair as a connection to their thoughts, wisdom, and knowledge…”