gradually and then suddenly

• my curated mind, forever dreaming •

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[archbudzar]

its gonna be nothing like you planned

[utterlyintertwined]

5783: bravery and joy;

[11990904]

source

[weltenwellen]

“I’m making myself. I’ll make myself until I reach the core.”

— Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

[fordarkmornings]

Käthe Butcher (German, b. 1990) – A Hug in the Garden, 2020.

As widespread lockdowns swept the globe earlier this year in response to the threat of COVID-19, intimacy became fraught. For artist Käthe Butcher, the loss of an embrace or casual peck on the cheek was incredibly difficult. This desire for connection culminated in “A Hug In The Garden,” an emotional rendering of two women holding each other. (Source)

[freddieardley]

Purple Heather

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

[margot-terc]

learning to move around discomfort

[kaafka]

Mary Oliver, “The Pond” from Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, Long Life : Essays and Other Writings

[electripipedream]

Joespeh Pintauro and Norman Laliberté, The Magic Box, 1970

[ololygas]

[soracities]

Ramona Ausubel, How To Be a Writer: The Map Is the Territory

[farmgf]

Linda Pastan, The Months

[sloral]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

[soracities]

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass

[Text ID: “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,”]

[stlowens]

Czesław Miłosz, “Love.”