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we’re safe now

[r4nchlif3]

if only you was you again

[cheruib]

happy to be here

[riodejaneiro-wonderfulcity]

Rio de Janeiro - RJ

[scanlabyrinth]

[toneburst]

Sculptures at St. Isaak’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, are silhouetted by the rising full moon. Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky

[llovinghome]

[vintagenatgeographic]

Little Flint introduces himself, but Mother Flo keeps a protective hold around his waist. Jane Goodall extends the back of her hand, fingers turned away, telling Flo that she intends no harm

National Geographic | December 1965

[fragrantblossoms]

Richard Kristal.   Untitled, 1969.

[shisasan]

~☥

[shisasan]

Yes. There is something in this image. Not just aesthetically, although the composition is perfectly balanced, as writing a poem of light and shadow with the bodies… but energetically too. This photograph carries the frequency of a union that dissolves boundaries, as if the two are not merging just physically, but through muscular memory, ancestral longing, and dream residue. It is not vulgar. Not even explicit. It is archetypal. One of those portrayals that slips directly into the subconscious and stays there like a code, like a seal.Light on the back, hands that do not grab but remember. Knees like locked bridges from past lives. Necks like threads between soul and earth.

🜍 ⟡ ⟢ 

[weltenwellen]

Maggie Smith, “Wild”, Goldenrod

[thingswithantlers]

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[sporadiccupcakeengineer-deactiv]

Met this lady on a hike recently, and she reminded me autumn is close

[sighinastorm]

Before you continue scrolling, go back and find the other four cows.

[metamorphesque]

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter"

[earthpictureshere]

Eight Rainbows! WOW Lehigh Valley, PA [960 x 960]

[ms-hells-bells]

Gisele Pelicot and her daughter are estranged because despite everything her husband has done, gisele refuses to believe that her daughter was also abused and scolded her for "making a scene", and talked down to her, defending her ex husband.

I don't really have the heart to feel blame towards Gisele, it's the inhumanity of men that has led to this maladaptive coping mechanism due to immense mental damage. Poor Caroline though, she deserves so much better. To be betrayed by both parents and to be alone must be terrible.

[traumagenicfeminist]

I do honestly. After everything she's been through, she should know how depraved this man is and her daughter was more vulnerable than she was. I hope she finds it within her heart to apologize eventually.

[secrets-and-lost-thoughts]

I do too. This is standard family dysfunction, although at an extreme scale. The father abuses the mother, the mother processes her pain by abusing the kids. It's so textbook it borders on cliche.

One of the hardest parts of overcoming family trauma for kids is reconciling the dualing notions that their mothers were victims but also very much abusers as well. And it's hard not just because of the guilt and pain you feel for your mother but for the very difficult existential questions you're forced to face about morality and love.

[loveridden1999]

just the usual