cherubian

[heavensghost]

love changes you

[blockpain-deactivated20210824]

light me up g

[larastones]

Clementine Keith-Roach for Casa Vogue 2010 Shot by Tim Walker

[lovecrumbss]

Elle on set of "The Great" 🌷

[kafk-a]

Arna Óttarsdóttir, Circle of Life (Six Ladies Braiding Each Others Hair), 2011, wool, linen, cotton

[nuveau-deco]

Buckle Depicting Two Silver Fish Blowing Moonstone Bubbles. Designed by Carl Christian Fjerdingstad ca. 1911-1914, Skagen, Denmark.

(Source: rijksmuseum.nl)

[soracities]

Aracelis Girmay, “Ars Poetica”  |  John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos  |  Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (Nobel Lecture)”  |  sam sax, “Prayer for the Mutilated World”  |  Edmond Jabés, “Drawn Curtains”

[kaalbela]

A Palestinian couple celebrate after their wedding ceremony as part of a protest against Israel’s separation wall. Photographed by Muhammed Muheisen on July 14, 2006 at the village of Bil'in, near the West Bank town of Ramallah. © Keystone SDA.

[flowerytale]

Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

[abigail]

when i got home after the new years celebrations last night, i took off my boots and found this pin stuck in the bottom of one of them,, a good sign for the new year perhaps ? :-) 

[firstfullmoon]

“I’m still alone with all the world’s beauty and cruelty.”

— Franz Wright, from “Progress”  (via finita–la–commedia)

[oozins]

garden of earthly delights

[hoursofreading]

The hard thing is remaining patient. The essential thing is presence. Intention. Complete surrender to the present moment. All I have to do is focus on the small thing in front of me, trusting that every deep curiosity I kindle and devote myself to leads me closer to my true center over time. With days like this, rain and rebirth, I think to myself: Life is pure process. What a gift it is to experience this little sliver of it. I don’t need the next thing. I just need to slow down and savor this moment. Perhaps what I want, what I’ve always wanted, is already here; already mine.

in praise of slowing down

life is pure process

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~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[lifeinpoetry]

“God, God, what do I do / after all this survival?”

— Traci Brimhall, from “Vive, Vive,” published in The Missouri Review

[vikingfunerals]

the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.

[songtwo]

2023: God's very simple and love doesn't burn