Lifting into the sky Diving into the sea

"The darker the night, the brigher the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer to god!" Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mattrmccormick]

[avant-sad]

the hardest part about recovering from a dramatic mental illness is that the only ones who notices the small things are yourself and your therapist.

your friends, your family, the people you love — they’re flat-out not gonna care if you take a shower instead of cutting yourself, or if you get in all your meals for a day, or if you curb your spending significantly, or if you go for a walk instead of locking yourself away and crying.

to us, these are major accomplishments. they’re fucking cake-worthy victories deserving of celebration.

to everyone else, it’s just behaving kind of “normal”, and will always be compared to your other problematic behaviors — “why are you still behaving so histrionically when it comes to sex?” “why are you still so irrationally afraid of abandonment?” “why do you still get so angry?”

the fact of the matter is, they won’t be happy until you’re cured.

but don’t let that discourage you.

if you think you’ve done well, feel good about it. treat yourself. call your therapist and celebrate with them on the phone, if you have the option.

pull yourself through. don’t minimize the small stuff. they’re big fucking deals.

[kittyit]

i needed this really badly.

[alrightalrightalrightalyssa-dea]

i also needed this

[bunlly]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

My life is like the falling leaf; Jesus, quicken me.

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems: A Better Resurrection (via violentwavesofemotion)

[elastique]

Picture an Arab Man is a portrait series photographed by  Tamara Abdul. She says: 

The conceptual aim of this portrait series is two-fold: Trying to uncover and break the stereotypes placed upon the arab male, and providing an alternative visual representation of that identity. Secondly, it is a celebration of their sensual beauty, an unexplored aspect of the identity of the contemporary Arab man, on the cusp of change in a society that reveres an out-dated form of hyper-masculinity.

[fawksianfella]

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

John Waters, Role Models (via ancient-serpent)

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

[saddsinner]

[bluecaptions]

How English has changed in the past 1000 years.

[allowthehype-deactivated2015072]

the big mans a lad i have fuck all, he lets me have a kip in a field he showed me a pond 

[tokyo-bleep-deactivated20190113]

[katzenfischfan-deactivated20160]

[lettertoshikiyoku-deactivated20]

just like you are

[gorgeousgeology]

PRUSKITE This mineral does not exist in nature. It was grown in lab in Poland. There are two varieties - yellow and red. The colour is natural and comes from iron. Thise chemical compound is used to develop film the classic way. In Europe it is additive to salt for the roads.

It isn’t toxic, however it is not edible - do not lick it, and do not eat.

[hirxeth]

Black Swan (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

[klamathsiskiyouwildlands-blog]

Darlingtonia californica (pron.: /dɑrlɪŋˈtoʊniə kælɨˈfɔrnɨkə/), also called the California pitcher plant, cobra lily, or cobra plant, is a species of carnivorous plant, the sole member of the genus Darlingtonia in the family Sarraceniaceae. It is native to Northern California and Oregon, growing in bogs and seeps with cold running water. This plant is designated as uncommon due to its rarity in the field.

The name “cobra lily” stems from the resemblance of its tubular leaves to a rearing cobra, complete with a forked leaf - ranging from yellow to purplish-green - that resemble fangs or a serpent’s tongue.

The plant was discovered in 1841 by the botanist William D. Brackenridge at Mount Shasta. In 1853 it was described by John Torrey, who named the genus Darlingtonia after the Philadelphian botanist William Darlington (1782–1863).

[eidesign]

Cobra Lily Darlingtonia californica - taken in northern california this past summer.

[expressions-of-nature]

Grasslands in Bloom : Texas, U.S. : Justin Isaac

[pagewoman]

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.

Henry David Thoreau  (via loveage-moondream)