Cocaine Jesus

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“More love is found in grief than in love itself.”

—Lang Leav, September Love

[whateverseemsaboutright]

Out of body.

[loish]

I saw a picture of a face with hard but gentle features, and felt inspired to try and capture it.

[70sscifiart]

Michael Böhme

[70sscifiart]

Steven Vincent Johnson

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Frank Frazetta, “The Flight of Icarus,” 1972

[70sscifiart]

1982 artwork by Tim Conrad for the cover to ‘Epic Illustrated’ #17

[love]

[loumargi]

Raffaele Monti — The Sleep of Sorrow and the Dream of Joy

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I’ve never been afraid of loneliness because I’ve never felt the need to justify my feelings to myself. I accept the muteness of feeling too. I have huge respect for my own silence. I let it speak. I allow time to do its trick and lead me back to myself. I don’t want just anyone to share life and myself with me. But I want life. Life, at all cost. And I want to feel wanted, needed and loved by someone as alive in spirit as me.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

[thebashfulbotanist]

This tree is an example of a gemel, or two conjoined trees that fused together in a process called inosculation - essentially, self-grafting. This is pretty common in thin-barked trees like apple trees, blackthorn, beech, and olives, but pretty rare in thick-barked Douglas fir trees like this one. This tree has a lot of damage from boring beetles, possibly by Douglas fir beetles, Denroctonus pseudotsugae (I could be wrong, though). Being fused together might have weakened the tree, making it susceptible to beetle attack. 

[exhaled-spirals]

“Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. […] We’re in the world, not against it. […] The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”

— Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[aseaofquotes]

Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook

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when i say i love you, know that this love consumes me. not in a bad way, but in the best way.

-ahlwords

[daweyt]

“I pacified Psyche and kissed her,”

– Edgar Allan Poe, from “The Complete Works of E. A. P. : “Ulalume: A Ballad””

[daweyt]

“... so soft, so melancholy, so wild...”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice”

[bookshavepores]