after a fashion

is that the devil in your veins or just some kind of symphony

[wachsein]

The tendency to spread evil beyond oneself: I still have it! Beings and things are not sacred enough to me. May I never sully anything, even though I be utterly transformed into mud. To sully nothing, even in thought. Even in my worst moments I would not destroy a Greek statue or a fresco by Giotto. Why anything else then? Why, for example, a moment in the life of a human being who could have been happy for that moment.

Simone Weil

[wachsein]

a mother who weaponizes her sacrifices has confused love with debt

and

the most insidious abuse is the kind wrapped devotion

[toiich]

Foxy Brown (1974), dir. Jack Hill

[imagesofcelebrities]

Riley Pinkerton

[imagesofcelebrities]

Riley Pinkerton

[dailyrothko]

Hello! I took this blurry photo at the Ipswich Art Gallery in Queensland! It was an amazing experience unlike anything I’ve felt before. Quite amazing.

thank you

[postcard-from-the-past]

Indigenous women woring for the Compañía Huanchaca de Bolivia at the silver mines of Pulacayo, Bolivia

Bolivian vintage postcard

[redlipstickresurrected]

Paul Evans (British, b. 1954, Sussex, England, based Lavenham, Suffolk, England) - Incredible Winter Evening, 2021, Paintings: Ink, Acrylic on Canvas

[lolavalolaart]

Eye oil painting

link

[niyarest]

[hyperions-fate]

The ideal use of ig, tumblr, etc is as a means to surround yourself with the nutmeg-induced fever dreams of Dutch renaissance artists, ultimately to the point where it makes you throw down your phone and lustily embrace the physical world in all its blazing impermanence.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[wachsein]

I need to read more books on a daily basis. Seriously read plenty of them and make notes and write summaries of every chapter. By doing this I will become more a person than I want to be and will be comfortable being.

It’s important to emphasize that reading is not a goal but the means to something more important and meaningful.

When I was around 23 years old there was a transformative time for me as a person. I was extremely unhappy and depressed. Subconsciously I knew what I had to become and change in order to move on. It was something unimaginable but I was recognizing certain narratives from my surrounding that I stitched together to transform myself.

Gurdijeff’s teaching helped me a lot.

I stopped reading fiction and tried to focus more on books describing reality

I started using words more carefully and intentionally

I made an effort not to zone out during the day and not to use too much music and media to distract myself from myself.

I make sure to put away my phone when I’m around people

and above all I try to be present.

[transistoradio]

Ernst Deger, Portrait of a Young Woman (1853). Via HEN-Magonza.

[unsubconscious]

Richard K. Blades, ‘Sunday’s Cloud’ Oil on panel, 76 x 76cm

[futurepharaohs]

[mournfulroses]

Sonya Vatomsky, from a poem titled "Spring Flowers," featured in Salt Is for Curing, publ. in 2015