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i write as a coping mechanism for law school, and life in general • 22 • australia • instagram: @notesbyasta

[notesbyasta]

“i wasn’t looking for anything before i met you. but then you came like autumn, and i fell like leaves do.”

- asta

[derangedrhythms]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

[onetwofeb]

[firstfullmoon]

Is it possible to stop loving everything? The owl. The hawk. Every person I meet. To see everyone as my mother. To have a heart like this is to be made of midnight. There are always too many questions to ask and not enough time. To love so much is to live within birds. I have been waiting for this heart to fade or at least to kneel.

— Victoria Chang, from “Marfa, Texas,” in The Trees Witness Everything

[letterkive]

Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon (from the San Jose Museum of Art)

Cyanotype prints on found book pages exposed to moonlight.

Thirty-six Views of the Moon is a collection of night exposures, left from dusk till dawn and exposed by moonlight on book pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky spanning the last ten centuries. Working with photographic negatives of the Moon from the Lick Observatory archives in Northern California and treating each book page with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate (cyanotype) to make the surface of the page light-sensitive, the pages are then exposed overnight by the UV-light emitted by the moon. The work takes its cue from a poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines us as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze and, in response, produces a vignette of windows on the Moon that abstract the typical celestial gaze, merging galaxy with ground to collapse space and time. (McEvoy Foundation for the Arts)

[catchymemes]

This person sold their VHS player on eBay and got a surprise letter in the mailbox.

[quotemadness]

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber

[ijaazat]

everything is so so significant to me how am i supposed to live

[quotemadness]

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

— Nagulb Mahfouz

[metamorphesque]

Small Wire, Anne Sexton

[haikkun]

Sinter

Sometimes I wonder

What buckshot to the heart tastes like

I dig a grave so intricate

Nobody gets in

Nobody gets out

Go there to visit the idea of myself

From time to time

__________________________________

Maureen Armstrong @haikkun

[iambrillyant]

“forgiveness is not a gateway to repeated reckless behavior.”

— iambrillyant

[quotemadness]

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

[metamorphesque]

― Anne Sexton

[metamorphesque]

― Dominic Riccitello

[weltenwellen]

Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

[metamorphesque]

‘Flowers’ by Wendy Cope

Le Bonheur (1965) dir. Agnès Varda