Just be

What makes a barn worth burning?- Barn Burning

[pyritetears-deactivated20260218]

Carrie Mae Weems, Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary. (1988)

[neguinhxx]

By Luedji Luna.

[onthedreamedge]

[circus-sonata]

by Yasuhiro Ishimoto / 石元泰博 From the book: Lines and Bodies

[thrdnarrative]

A street market in Mbour, Sénégal

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Plaisir d’amour en Iran (Agnès Varda, 1976)

[nousrose]

The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.

Open to Desire

Mark Epstein

[achillesinhighheels]

Photographed by Gabriel Moses

[stephmaybe]

“Eternal Presence” by John Wilson

Photographed by David Schafer

[josefadamu]

NY Nights #MetMondays

[thenordroom]

A fantastic small Art Nouveau apartment in Stockholm (click here for the full home tour)

[ble-ss-ing]

[msgoated]

Photographer 📸 Néhémie Lemal

[medievalpoc]

Juan de Balmaseda

Carved Predella: Adoration of the Magi

Spain (c. 1516-1525)

Polychrome Wood, 68 x 83 cm.

Palencia, Seo. Capilla de San Ildefonso.

The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Gong Li in Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)

[smsomah]

United Arab Emirates, unknown photographer

[mmaisonnnn]