this is not a story, this is a life

[untrustyou]

Jörg Sasse

[untrustyou]

Ernest Protasiewicz

[tthematics]

I love the mountains and I love old souls and I love the person that I’m becoming

[benzank]

[thisisalife]

Ben Zank

[luthienne]

Sun / make me whole again / to love / the shattered truths of me

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Chorus” 

[contemporary-art-blog]

[thisisalife]

Andres Serrano, Pisschrist, 1987

[thisisalife]

parents: so what are you going to do with your life

me: it's a surprise

[theanimalblog]

[kolekshun]

Fire reflected on birds in smoke, at Moerdijk, the Netherlands

[just-shower-thoughts]

A bed is just a shelf for our body when we are not using it.

[mpdrolet]

Stefano Maruzzo

[pigmenting]

Should I keep changing until I become something that has an other? I’ve tried that. What else can I do for love?

Keetje Kuipers, from “The Extinct” in The Keys to the Jail 

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Documenteur dir. Agnès Varda (1981)

[healingsuggestions]

you deserve the world even if that means giving it to yourself

[nightwolfsbane11747]

Laurence Anyways (2012) directed by Xavier Dolan

[tothecatcher]

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

Ezra Pound 

[transistoradio]

Kurt Solmssen, Lauren Sleeping in Winter Sunlight (2012), oil, 48 x 36 inches. Via kurtsolmssen.net.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

But good God, what’s wrong with me, after all? What am I missing? Why this emptiness, this nostalgia? What is this anxiety, as if I only loved something I didn’t know?

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector