[thunderstruck9]

Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroonian, 1967), The Smell of Life V, 2013. Watercolour on paper, 113 x 90 cm.

[havingapoemwithyou]

The list by Richard Siken

[havingapoemwithyou]

short talk on hedonism by Anne Carson

[weltenwellen]

Donika Kelly, from “Archaeology”, Bestiary

[imanbenerrabeh]

the endless uses of a small wooden table

[petaltexturedskies]

Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. It's all about taking in as much of what's out there as you can, and not letting the excuses and the dreariness of some of the obligations you'll soon be incurring narrow your lives. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

from Susan Sontag's 2003 commencement speech at Vassar

[weltenwellen]

Maggie Smith, “Wild”, Goldenrod

[cosechadehuellas]

Hilma af Klint, Wheat and Wormwood, 1922

[dozydawn]

“A Palestinian girl stands holding stones in her hands waiting in Ramallah in the West Bank for Israeli soldiers to arrive to the place where a young Palestinian was shot dead the same day. 20 February 1988.”

Photographed by Eric Feferberg.

[transparentfossil]

Oxybeloceras Ammonite Fossil in Matrix Heteromorph Pierre Shale Cretaceous

[salamalaikum]

“In many parts of this world water is Scarce and precious. People sometimes have to walk A great distance Then carry heavy jugs upon their Heads. Because of our wisdom, we will travel Far for love. All movement is a sign of Thirst. Most speaking really says “I am hungry to know you.” Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy. Dear one, Why wait until you are dying To discover that divine Truth?”

—  شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez

[zamaaanawal]

A fortune teller in Jemaa el Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco, 1971.

عرافة في ساحة جامع الفنا في مراكش، المغرب، ١٩٧١.

[deliriumclub]

photography from abalone shells exhibition

[apocryphics]

Isabelle Adjani, 1994.

[greelin]

beautiful bisexual people in my phone we have to live. We have to

[minima--moralia]

“I think it’s true that a romantic relationship is a sort of delusion between two people. There’s an agreement to imagine something together, and you create this idea of each other and the relationship and what you mean to each other. And when one person stops imagining all this, basically that’s when the whole thing falls apart.”

— Sheila Heti, in an excerpt from “We Need the Eggs: On Annie Hall, Love, and Delusion”, The Paris Review, 22 April 2022

[metamorphesque]

The Eternal Idol, Auguste Rodin