[redorchidsfuchsiaribbons]

My recently completed painting, 𝓢𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓛𝓲𝓯𝓮, in my art studio space

Artist - Kimberly Montiel

April 28, 2024

[intersectionalpraxis]

[digi-moe]

[gacougnol]

Jana Sojka

Night Landscapes

[nemfrog]

"Mushrooms grown on greenhouse benches." Mushrooms: how to grow them. 1901.

Internet Archive

[onthejupiter]

i can’t stop thinking about you today

i’ve looked at your lips for so long

my memories of them make me feel like a painter

my eyes trace the soft lines and dips on the lower parts of your face

i want to stroke your hair again

my arm around you while you lay on my chest

i can’t tell if i love you

or if you just set me on fire every time there’s a spark between us

i don’t want to be attached to the avoidant parts of you

but there’s this space between us

that let’s our fire burn gently through the calmest parts of the night

our love feels light

sometimes i fill a balloon with it and watch as it floats away like a passing thought

i’m the kite who’s string you got entangled in

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

How to Get Ahead in Life

1. Don’t pay too much attention to the way you feel. Feelings change throughout the day and are unreliable. Don’t let them rule your life, or interfere with your goals.

2. Decide not to worry as it tends to make things worse. If you focus on your worries it will drain your energy – and often what we’re dreading doesn’t happen anyway.

3. Cut the internal commentary. Stop telling yourself that things are going to fall apart, or your efforts won’t succeed, or you won’t be popular. Keep trying, moving forwards, and getting on with life.

4. Stop being self-critical. You need to be your own cheerleader and your biggest fan in life. Note progress, perseverance, attitude and inner strength. Be affirming, kind, believing and coach towards success.

5. Stop feeling guilty. Feeling guilty changes nothing. You are going to make mistakes. Accept you aren’t perfect - then get up and try again.

6. Stop worrying about what others think of you. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what they think. Choose your own goals for your life – you’re not accountable to them.

7. Don’t worry about set backs or changes to your plans. Plans always need adjusting and things always go wrong – but that doesn’t mean ‘it’s over’ or you’ll never reach your goals. Expect to make some changes – just be adaptable.

[psikonauti]

Chie Yoshii (Japanese, b.1974)

Bathing in a Lake, 2017

Oil on wood panel

[thecalminside]

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

-Eckhart Tolle

[psikonauti]

Antoni Arissa (Spanish,1900-1980)

The kiss, 1930

[siwar-fen-deactivated20240307]

Gaza, Palestine 1993.

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Set Design”

[werewolf-transgenderism]

from aja monet’s preface to mohammed el-kurd’s rifqa

[random-brushstrokes]

Ludovic Alleaume - Des mains de femme (ca. 1920)

[heartshop]

Ellen Bass, ‘The Thing Is’

[letsbeapoemtogether]

Sunrise, Louise Glück

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[luthienne]

jack gilbert, “islands and figs” / richard siken, “the worm king’s lullaby”