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The Hornero bird makes its nest from mud therefore its name (oven maker) which are very intricate, so much so that female birds have a preference for those who have the better home-making skills, as we all should, right?.

These birds are everywhere in Uruguay and I hold them very dear in my heart so I decided to draw them for valentines last year, because love is something we build🤎

#love is something we build #home #the heart #love #art #anatomy #birds

weltenwellen

My mind let go into the crags of sorrow and I grew this cavernous heart. It was a tomb but also a garden. One is the other always.

Deborah DeNicola, from "Noli Me Tangere"

#the heart #grief #time passing #getting older #sorrow #cycles #hope

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ellen bass, from "oh demeter"

#grief #the heart

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leila chatti, from night lament in hergla || nguyêt lê, girl memories || joanna klink, from "sorting" || robert wood lynn, from "sneaking onto the reservoir again" || david altmejd, untitled || maria wine, "I have barely had time to build your name"

#grief #loss #the heart #web weaving #intertextuality #breakups #sadness

geryone

Auction, Quan Barry

#growing apart #wanting #loneliness #grief

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i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer

#grief #love #remembrance #cw animal death

weltenwellen

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

#time #space #time passing #grief #sadness #tenderness

jazbaaati

John Berger, The Fayum Portrait Painters (Portraits: John Berger on Artists)

#memory #fragments #remembrance #grief #time passing #getting older

uglyfruit

[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say "It's so hot and the sky's so blue", "I want people to know me", "but it's so hard to tell them". ]

#summer #leaves #the self #loneliness

hoodlumwitchh

This is to inform you that I didn’t die young.

Jim Harrison, Barking

#time passing #growing up #adulthood #childhood #spring #new beginnings #and now there's no chain

bakwaaas

Woman picking lotus flowers, Thailand, by Sarawut Intarob

#joy #flowers #humanity #abundance #humans in nature #lotus #thailand

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#mothers #mother's day #echoes #ancestors #it is not you talking #but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth

swordshapedleaves

Someday your hands will be old and wrinkled, the skin spotted and bunching over your knuckles. And a child will watch you make something. It's a simple task, you'll have done it a thousand times before. But to that child, the smooth, confident way your hands move will seem like impossible magic. You have to keep living.

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