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I'm Rosemary and I like art and sometimes I make art. http://rosemarywastespaper.tumblr.com/tagged/my-art

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heyyyyy this^ is where I’m going to post the most art

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Godfather of gloom, troubadour of sadness, poet laureate of loneliness: Leonard Cohen. Acrylic on canvas. Rosemary Aquilina.

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Comic about drawing

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Blessed are you who has given each man a shield of loneliness so that he cannot forget you. You are the truth of loneliness, and only your name addresses it. Strengthen my loneliness that I may be healed in your name, which is beyond all consolations that are uttered on this earth. Only in your name can I stand in the rush of time, only when this loneliness is yours can I lift my sins toward your mercy.

Leonard Cohen, The Book of Mercy (via rosemarywastespaper)

Goodbye Leonard Cohen, thank you for the beauty you leave behind.

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Me: So Leonard Cohen is saying he's ready to die.

My dad: Hasn't he been saying that since 1965?

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I spent about 15 hours stitching this feminist art meme 😂

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OMG I LOVE THIS

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romanticize the fuck out of life if thats how you cope who cares fuck those text posts that are like “your life will never be a wes anderson movie” well of course it won’t but i’m buying that cute yellow tea kettle anyways motherfucker dont harsh my vibes

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Life is too short not to wear whatever ridiculous stuff you want to wear.

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If you want to know what it’s like being a homeschooler, watch the scene in Pride and Prejudice where Lady Catherine interrogates Lizzie at dinner.

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This is so homeschool I needed to reblog it.

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Even if you are the Golden Calf you are better than money or government and I have bent my knee

“Nursery Rhyme,“ Leonard Cohen

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Scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it.

Walking on Water, Madeleine L’Engle

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My first copy of Jane Eyre. I think I asked for it for Christmas when I was 12 or 13.

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So I saw a post about today being National Book Lovers Day and it seemed like the perfect excuse to rep my Biblioarts by Emma bag, which is currently full of books. I even took these photos on the way to the library. People, if you need a bag to tote your books, this is the bag. Look at all the books it can tote. Look at all the books on the bag. Books. Support an amazing bookish artist by buying bookish swag. You can buy this bag here and you can find Emma’s art at @gentlecounsel.

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I stopped to listen, but he did not come. I began again with a sense of loss. As this sense deepened I heard him again. I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance. This was a strategy, and didn't work at all. Much time, years were wasted in such a minor mode. I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love. I beg for mercy. Slowly he yields. Haltingly he moves toward his throne. Reluctantly the angels grant to one another permission to sing. In a transition so delicate it cannot be marked, the court is established on beams of golden symmetry, and once again I am a singer in the lower choirs, born fifty years ago to raise my voice this high, and no higher.

Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy

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Remember that time Josh Ritter picked my art in an art swap and sent me an original painting

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my face when someone tries to get me to join in on a convo making fun of another girl's looks

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Asheville, NC