what is real?

a diary of beautiful things

[southernsolarpunk-deactivated20]

Original

[chicorystreetcoffee]

[kisxmesoft]

[petitworld]

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France by Jade Stephens

[happyheidi]

(via)

[neofeliis]

With all the love on my recent jag embroidery, I wanted to share this process video of a different portrait I did earlier in the year! I often try to do these process videos but I just didn't get to it with my recent piece. Anyway! Please enjoy, this was about a month of work, single strand hand embroidery.

My embroidery IG is threaded.wild, please check it out for more of my work!

[alaahygge]

summer internship shifts are always followed by an iced matcha

[expressions-of-nature]

by Biwako

[coffee-khaleesi-deactivated2020]

When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:

“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”

Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either. 

[bogfox]

Op I’d like to thank you for sharing this. Ever since the first time I’ve read it I’ve held it in my mind and it really has helped me to be kinder to others and to myself.

[wetheurban]

If you spent the first half of 2026 in survival mode, may the second half be spent in revival mode. It’s time to heal.

[moncuries]

I Wake in the Morning to Find that I Have Received Everything I Have Ever Wanted, and: I'm Sorry I'm Running Late I'll Be There in a Few Minutes by nora rose tomas

[clture]

the moon rises over the parthenon in athens, greece (2011)

[xoxomissfoxy]

[her-written-thoughts]

If it is meant for you,

it will cross oceans, distances, and doubts to reach you.

[deletingmyself]

(by Tim Trad)| Iceland

[petitworld]

Zhejiang, China

[4mtns]

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter

[banhmigoddess]

you don’t need to reinvent yourself this summer; you simply need to return to the things that make you feel most like you