re.al.ity.

just trying to find my purpose

[neptunianfairy]

[vintagegermany]

Berlin 1929

[mariophotographies]

Italie by Mario. H. ”Barrière”

[luxlit]

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[rosieandthemoon]

Villa Padiglione at Relais La Foleia, in Veruno, Italy

[seiitchi]

[yanushkaa]

[mothmiso]

Naqshbandi Mausoleum (2) (3) (4) by tombomba2

post #1; post #2; post #4; post #5

[whiteorchardspirit]

[dk-thrive]

Bob Dylan: The Best & Worst Thing about being 80.

The best thing The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore. You’re an old king from some vanished country. You’re harder to program. You’re not rushing to become anything and you’re not haunted by things that you did. You’re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.

The worst thing The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions. People treat you like either you’ve solved something or you’ve lost something, and you haven’t. You see life repeating itself everywhere.

The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t, it stands still. We’re the ones that move.

— Bob Dylan, 85, from "Bob Dylan and Liza Minnelli Already Turned 80. They Have Thoughts for Trump." (NY Times, June 14, 2026)

[summerswages]

the inside story . . .

[eirikharstad]

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

The demolition of the steeple of St. George's Church (Georgenkirche) in East Berlin.

[soluksuret]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[halukturgutmenguc]

Visual Diary /@ all rights reserved / htm.studios/2026/219

[donniehaspronouns]

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

[donniehaspronouns]

you. you get it.