caeles

Of love and luck

[oessa]

the textures of alaska / google earth

[northwindow]

from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. July 1935 featured in Selected Diaries

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[queerpontmercy]

when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”

[blossomfully]

“But don’t you ever feel the urge to speak to strangers?” she asked. “To ask them about their lives?

“Don’t you ever wonder what helps them fall asleep, and what keeps them awake at night?”

[glowcowboy]

ok. enough suffering now. i am seeking out delight

[shisasan]

March 24, 1974 Anne Sexton, from Complete Poems

[soracities]

“Spring moon— if I touch it, it would drip.”

— Kobayashi Issa, from Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (edited by Stephen Addiss, Fumiko Yamamoto and Akira Yamamoto)

[mirrorsinner]

[oldpaintings]

 Nymphs Bathing by Antonio Muñoz Degrain (Spanish, 1840–1924)

[oldwinesoul]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725 - 1805) Mars & Venus, Allegory of Peace, Detail, 1770

[painstation-deactivated20181026]

[wherepetalsbecomeprayer]

Details on the shells I’ve collected.

[parasoli]

gucci by petra collins.

[zegalba]

John Yuyi by Zhong Lin for Vogue Singapore (2023) Photography: Zhang Ahuei 

[zegalba]

Walter Chappell