Oh lord, what has become of me?

[stuckinapril]

I’m not the woman I was a few years ago or even a year ago but I still like to hold her hand and remind her she did her best with what she knew

[canvasoul]

my witness is the empty sky

[remanence-of-love]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

But my rage was there, it was there, it pretended to sleep but it never slept, the merest touch of a feather was enough to bring it howling, roaring out.

– James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

[9710144]

Don't inform everyone so you don't have to explain yourself to everyone.

[cyberxbattalion]

[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[wetheurban]

You deserve a life that feels good for your nervous system. Do whatever it takes to get there.

[amicus-noctis]

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Painting: "Young Man Tired of his Hometown" by Taryn Day

[randomglory]

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

--- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[journalofsolitude]

Morgan Harper Nichols’ ‘Let July be July’

[sternegreifend]

iceland24

[heavensghost]

Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters

Art by René Magritte

[remanence-of-love]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[postsfullofcharm]

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters