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how long has it been....

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Miyamoto Musashi

*walks through bead curtains while 60s psychedelic rock plays*

A desire drifts across the dream stilled landscape and I listen to its echo until a stranger answers back.

L. A. Johnson, from “Late Light Night,” Foundry (no. 14, Fall 2020)

if that ain’t me then give it up

“Come darkness, moonlight, everything That is so silent, sweet and pale, Come, so ye wake the nightingale.”

— Bird Raptures, Christina Rossetti (via trembling-star)

“It hovers between memory and dream.”

— A.O. Scott, from “At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity,” The New York Times (30 September 2016)

Chinese Qing Dynasty Gilt Edges Famille Rose Porcelain Teapot w Yongzheng Mark

“That frozen star there, / Or this one on the water,— / Which is more distant?”

— Richard Wright, from Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon, eds. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener (Arcade Publishing, 2012)

Orchid Mantis

Lost worlds, Andrea Guzzetta

“November is a hinge in the year, and the door gets opened to ghosts.”

— Nina MacLaughlin, from “On the First of November, the Ghosts Arrive”, The Paris Review

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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.

Adyashanti

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”

— Richard Yates

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