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James Baldwin

The Mirror [Зеркало] (1975, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

“I must start to build again after this long period of anguish and despair. […] Keep silent—and have confidence in myself.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1935-1951; circa March 1936

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petaltexturedskies

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Mary Oliver, “I worried”

chantssecrets

🎨 by William Bruce Ellis Ranken.

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William Bruce Ellis Ranken (British, 1881-1941), Covent Garden, 1930. Oil on canvas, 153 x 92.6 cm.

existential-celestial

“The language of birds is very ancient, and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood.”

— Gilbert White, from Letter XLIII, Selborne, 9 September 1778, The Natural History of Selborne (1789).

principleofplenitude

“I do not write every day, I read every day, think every day, work in the garden every day, and recognize in nature the same slow complicity. The same inevitability. The moment will arrive, always it does, it can be predicted but it cannot be demanded. I do not think of this as inspiration. I think of it as readiness.”

— Jeanette Winterson, from Art Objects (1995)

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There is no moral.

The wolf eats you one day,

And until it does,

The forest is beautiful

[Neverafter - Brennan Lee Mulligan]

miniangel

fanfic writers are always in a situation

grimdr

whatever rural area you’re thinking of is also part of history. it is not a timeless, empty landscape. yes, even that one.

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omgthatdress

Cashmere Sweater

1950s

The Philadephia Museum of Art

"An ardent fisherwoman, Julia Andrews Bissell of Wilmington, Delaware, had this cashmere cardigan embellished with appliqués of trout, dragonflies, and stylized fishing poles cut from an Hermès silk scarf. She wore the cardigan only on fishing trips, in the evenings after changing from her fishing clothes."