the story so far

I am a writer, old soul, and constant wanderer. I like to collect stories. All of my best friends are imaginary.

[softerains]

“I keep trying to feel who I was, and cannot.”

— Jack Gilbert, from “Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina,” Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012)

[likalinea]

Paula Templado Ruiz by Jean Ambrojo

https://www.instagram.com/likalinea/

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“I get deeply tired because everything touches me, I am never indifferent.”

— The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939

[escuyer]

[wanderlustwriterofthemoon]

I feel like a beast who can’t be tamed.

[theblakex]

[old-hopes-and-boots]

Death Valley, CA, by Dizzy Atmosphere

[terrriya-deactivated20201127]

Reinventing myself into a whole new woman. I owe it to myself. I deserve everything I aspire. I want me on a whole new level. 

[terrriya-deactivated20201127]

Reinventing myself into a whole new woman. I owe it to myself. I deserve everything I aspire. I want me on a whole new level. 

[bocekcicek]

Polina Washington

[minuty]

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

—

[naseberry-deactivated20210325]

Audrey Helen Weber, Parade (2017)

[serratedpens]

Patti Smith, Devotion

[soracities]

Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (trans. Bela Shayevich)

[aconissa]

Poet James Schuyler to painter John Button (Spring 1956) 

[prudencepaccard]

a visual aid! the Frank, John and Jimmy of the letter, in 1960 (left to right, respectively; the fourth person is Joe LeSueur)

[last-picture-show]

Karel Ludwig, Composition, 1977

[anancientheart]

I have a lot of dreams !!!!!! I’m breathing life into all of them