all the small things

[nightlyquotes]

We’re so distracted by how things end, we usually forget how beautiful the beginning was.

Lamiya Waheed 

[mlartigue]

11 tips for Angelenos who made a New Year's resolution to declutter their lives

We all know L.A. is the land of reinvention, but the first step to a new you is getting rid of the old by decluttering your home, your close

[nightlyquotes]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller 

[mlartigue]

We are not made to run all the time. Slow means going deep.

Most of my young life I´ve been told that I was too slow. A daydreamer. That I need to pick up speed. I did not manage to finish class tests in school nor was I particularly fast in any sport activity. I took longer to learn how to tie my shoes and I generally felt like I had a hard time keeping up with everyone else. At times I felt pretty stupid and worthless. Speed is such a "virtue" in this world. If you´re fast, it means you´re effective. I started overcompensating when I went into the job world. I accumulated  waaay over 100 extra hours within the first few months. I could meet every deadline, no matter how tight. And still somehow managed to blog daily and keep up a digital art community. Need I tell you that I felt burnt out after a few years? Duh. I have a lot of compassion for the part in me that wants to go fast in order to be loved. I´m not fully "cured" of this speed disease and I notice it when I get impatient with myself. Nothing is fun anymore, everything becomes a to-do on a never-ending list. Then I step outside and meet this amazing being. So slow, yet everything gets accomplished. So vulnerable, yet a piece of art. (I truly urge you to take a closer look at a snail´s shell. There´s some true mastery happening and they aren´t even aware of it.) We are not made to run all the time. Slow means going deep. Showing respect. A wisdom that things take their time and cannot be rushed. The Roman Snail* is such a beauty. They are still under conservation and there is so much we can learn from them. *loves calcerous soil because there it’s shell becomes thicker. nov/2021

[replanting]

[nightlyquotes]

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

[nightlyquotes]

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

David Bly (via nightlyquotes)

[nightlyquotes]

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via nightlyquotes)

[contemporaryartdaily]

Hannah Black at MUMOK

[ancanstore]

[sentimental-obsessions]

Gerhard Richter 

Wolke Cloud1971 64 cm x 60 cm Editions CR: 37Offset print on lightweight card

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[ruiard]

Lawrence Carroll - Untitled

Oil, wax, house paint, canvas, staples on wood, 113¾ x 85 x 4 in. / 289 x 216 x 10 cm, 2016

[paintedout]

Dorothea Rockburne, Small Torn White Paper, 1972

[topcat77]

Etel Adnan

[nicoonmars]

BERTA FISCHER

Untitled, 2011

[treebystream]

Lydia Gifford, Rest, 2012