Before I fall

It's ten times harder to pull yourself together than it is to fall apart. - Finnick Odair, Mockingjay.

[earthporn]

Hintersee, Bavaria, Germany [667x1000][OC] IG: konstantin.kraemer by: kokrae

[sallizzle]

[sspictt]

Fonte: @sspictt

[linkinmoon]

Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[shyboss-deactivated20210827]

[theycallmeink]

Do love her tatts.

[linkinmoon]

Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

[expressions-of-nature]

by Scott Hotaling

[childishnes]

[naturaekos]

“Try to be as kind to yourself as possible. Do not measure yourself against others or even against your ideal self. Human betterment is a gradual effort.”

— Epictetus

[imposer]

[turnnoffyourmind]

Moments ɞ

Salto Alaska, Lonquimay, La Arauncanía Andina, Chile.

[celestinecrossing]

[watchoutforintellect]

“One thing I know about death is that it touches my psyche and mumbles in her magnificently unknown words; it floats within me and wanders through my bones every day.”

— Anne Sexton - from A Self-Portrait in Letters

[humansofnewyork]

“Our community was hit first. Asian restaurants were empty long before other restaurants. Even on the subway I could sense that racism was on the rise. On television one night there was a story about an elderly man who was collecting aluminum cans, just to survive. He was robbed and taunted. His bags were broken. His cans were strewn all over the street. And he didn’t speak English, so he couldn’t even ask for help. It broke me. Because in his face I could see the faces of all our grandparents. In our culture there is a tradition of: ‘Never speak out. Never ask for help.’ If our elders were suffering, would they even let us know? I decided to call a service organization focusing on Asian elderly, and I asked: ‘How many meals do you need?’ They replied: ‘As many as you can cook.’ We started preparing 200 meals per week in our little 300 square foot apartment. Moonlynn cooks beautifully and efficiently, so she lovingly banned me from the kitchen. But I still wanted to help in some way. So I found a black sharpie, and began to write on the plastic containers. Traditionally our elders are very reserved with their affection. I can still make my father blush just by kissing him on the cheek. But since I grew up in America, I have the privilege of being more direct. I found the traditional Chinese characters for ‘We are thinking of you’ and ‘We love you,’ and I wrote them on every container. I thought it was important to use the word ‘we.’ I never signed our own names. Because I wanted it to feel like a whole bunch of people, an entire community who cared. And before long that’s exactly what it was. We found ten restaurant partners within a half mile who helped us prepare culturally relevant foods. And over the past eighteen months Heart of Dinner has delivered 80,000 meals to our Asian elders. We weren’t able to personally write notes on each one. So we put out a call on Instagram, and 100,000 hand-written notes poured in from all over the world. We told people to go wild. Add as much character as you’d like. There were so many styles, and so many colors. But every note had two things, written in big, bold letters: ‘We are thinking of you.’ And ‘We love you.’”

[eliakara]

Monet’s garden, Giverny, France

[requiem-on-water]

[neckkiss]

Trainspotting (1996)