Patterns, Plans & Possibilities

the everyday adventures of an artist, teacher, traveler, and inspiration gatherer.

[cocaineteas]

[namelessin314-deactivated201601]

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

Cormac Mccarthy (via namelessin314)

[artruby]

Robert Wechsler. 

[craigroland]

However you feel and however you respond to a work of art is your way.  -Jeanne Frank

[anna-grrrl]

[teachingfeelslike]

When the whole class is trying to talk to me at once.

[wnq-music]

No one is you and that is your power.

(via oceane-water)

[howtogrowthefuckup]

Adulting fail: I packed myself a nice healthy lunch to go to my six hour shift in which I have no way of getting food during and I left it on the kitchen counter.

Let’s not talk about the number of times I have personally done this in the past. Or just forgetting to pack a lunch in the first place.

[setoshi-zombie]

[ruihenriquesesteves]

[dakotasica-deactivated20160905]

[artruby]

You’re a Ghost | Artist Will Hutnick at The Java Project curated by Dakota Sica

[wnq-writers]

She is a patchwork of everything she’s ever loved.

our-heartbeats-are-our-poetry (via wnq-writers)

[hyperallergic]

GIFs That Bring Street Art to Life

[skindeeptales]

[hugclub]

In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act

[danielodowd-deactivated20170124]

http://kevincab22.vsco.co/

[tai-korczak]

23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.