well, you cured my january blues

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."

[lilreevs]

[youra-chan]

[nemfrog]

"In case of consumption look for these for a cure." Household discoveries. 1913.

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[smute]

[thatswhywelovegermany]

My German friends all love to go for a walk and often ask me to come along. Not just fifteen or twenty minutes, either. They'll keep going for an hour at least, and in good weather as long as two without a rest. What's more, about forty minutes into the walk a friend will finally open his heart to mee and confess, "I broke up with my girlfriend": without strong legs, you can't even make friends in this country.

Meine deutschen Freunde gehen alle gerne spazieren und fragen mich oft, ob ich mitkommen möchte. Und zwar nicht nur für fünfzehn oder zwanzig Minuten. Sie laufen mindestens eine Stunde lang, bei gutem Wetter sogar bis zu zwei Stunden ohne Pause. Außerdem öffnet mir ein Freund nach etwa vierzig Minuten endlich sein Herz und gesteht mir: „Ich habe mich von meiner Freundin getrennt.“ Ohne kräftige Beine kann man in diesem Land nicht einmal Freunde finden.

[in-utero-kurt]

Kurt Cobain - MTV Live And Loud, December 1993

[forestlore]

“We love shadows of our hidden selves in others.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[thecolorblockcurator]

California Coast in February, Michelle Morin

[nemfrog]

“Elementary anatomy.” A Complete Guide To Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning and Painting. 1948.

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[antigonick]

“There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock. There’s daytime silent when I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There’s shower silent and bath silent and […] car silent and then there’s the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore. That’s how this machine works.”

— Ada Limón, excerpt of “The Quiet Machine”, in Bright Dead Things

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; October 9th, 1926

Text ID: I would like to ask your forgiveness for all that has been selfish in my love; I often wanted to be loved more than to love.

[soothifying-sounds-asmr]

Art restoration- “The Assassination of Archimedes”

[monnabrisa]

[joelbear-deactivated20231204]

Listening to the sounds and sights of Asia. @gradolabs (at Banaue Rice Terraces)

[cabinporn]

[brinnanza]

google search: how to take a break from the linear flow of time

[francoisbry]

Reflection on water and ice at Steindorfstrasse, Munich, Germany, 1 March 2018

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE)

[sicknare]