live free or die

[kafk-a]

Sarah Perry, The Essence of Peopling

[heavensghost]

The state of my heart

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “My Mother Says Kissing a Man Without a Mustache Is Like Eating Eggs Without Salt”, Instructions for Traveling West

[mournfulroses]

Boris Pasternak, from a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[darkcomedies]

my understanding and interpretation of Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” cannot be untangled from the fact that it was originally published to follow her poem about childhood sexual abuse, “Rage”

[darkcomedies]

i just don’t think it was unintentional that these were presented flush against each other

[petaltexturedskies]

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself. We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. IV: 1944-1947

[nixscriptum]

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

[weirdtvland]

October 1967 – Rio de Janeiro Botafogo Bay by night.

[victoriaelyse]

[weepingwidar]

Leif Engström (Swedish, 1992) - Sommar Adjö (Summer Goodbye) (2021)

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[huariqueje]

Iluminated Bark - Christopher Burk , 2024

American,b.1960s -

Gouache on paper ,  12 x 12 in.

[rosieandthemoon]

By Maxfield Parrish, 1913

[classicalcanvas]

The Secret Rendezvous by Pierre Charles Comte

[huariqueje]

Istanbul Balcony - Kenny Harris , 2015.

American , b. 1974 -

Oil , 8 x 6 in.

[skruttet]

Tove Jansson after her 75th birthday in 1989, lovingly filmed by Tuulikki.