to love another person is to see the face of god

H, 20s. “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” -Kurt Vonnegut

[vvitchy]

[marzipanandminutiae]

"you do not owe friends instant responses to every social message, and anxiety over not receiving the same is something for the anxious person to work on, not your responsibility to totally change for"

AND

"you have to put some effort into friendships, which can include open communication with your friends about how to make both of you comfortable re: messaging. expecting other people to do ALL of the work ALL of the time, in terms of getting in touch and carrying on the conversation, may make them feel ignored and/or and leave"

are ideas that can and should coexist

[leonardcohenofficial]

“Believe me, what you want is someone to have dinner with. Sleep with from time to time, telephone every day or write. It’s what you set up that is defeating. Make it very modest. And give yourself permission to make a few mistakes. You know, blow it a bit. Have a few drinks and fall into bed with somebody. It doesn’t have to be the final thing.”

— Leonard Cohen on relationships, 2007

[thisprettyukrainianletter]

Розписані дерев’яні тарілки з Полтавщини

Painted wooden plates from Poltava region, Ukraine

Source https://etnoua.info/novyny/malovane-derevo-v-ukrajini-lidija-orel-2003/

[memorygirls-deactivated20250816]

Red currants, pink currants, white currants

[klinger4yossarian-deactivated20]

it’s like looking at gorgeous rocks and wishing they were edible except these are the edible things we sometimes wish certain rocks were

[mushbeast]

its ok to grieve what once was + what could have been

[tkkatherineblog]

[kafkasdiariies]

Villa Majorelle, Nancy, France | rolleitof

[bouddha-bleu]

Custom engraved silver necklace by Silberwerk, commissioned by me- words from Belovéd by Yves Olade

[more-than-useless]

anyway……..literally love is stored in the action of making hot drinks for people. no i won’t elaborate.

[bulkhummus]

first you have to remember that the first disco ball was painstakingly put together by hand from nothing but an idea and lots of intricately cut glass and bandaids and then you have to think about the experience of being under a disco ball for the very first time, bathed in reflections of an era that has not yet come to past, and finally you end up wondering what else there is around you that has yet to be unearthed by something with so much as a silly name

[cyb0rg-bby]

I remembered this post a few nights ago while I was out and looking up at this massive disco ball and I needed to find it but I couldn’t so I just googled disco ball and stood there in the middle of the concert floor reading the disco ball Wikipedia entry. anyway did you know that the disco ball is German in origin.

[tanyushenka]

Strawberry vendor in Gaza, Palestine, January, 2019 @Aya Isleem

[apolloknowsbest]

A Huguenot Painting - John Everett Millais 1852

It depicts a pair of young lovers in an embrace. The familiar subject is given a dramatic twist because the “embrace” is in fact an attempt by the girl to get her beloved to wear a white armband, declaring his allegiance to Roman Catholicism. The young man gently pulls the armband off with the same hand with which he embraces the girl. The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572 when French Protestants (Huguenots) were massacred in Paris, leading to other massacres elsewhere in France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city by wearing white armbands.

[nobrashfestivity]

M. Henry, Part of the Starry Sky,  c. 1881 - in or before 1891

[strisciadentro-deactivated20240]

Sagrestia 1

[digital-age]

source: @pppollen on Twitter

[seravph]

Cannot stop thinking about Anne magill paintings. Maybe my new favorite painter. She just captures this ..,,,,,, dreamy feeling...,,, a certain tenderness..... a fleeting moment of contentedness..... like nothing else I’ve seen

[seravph]

I’m going to scream