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Would you speak this way to trees?

Intimate Portraits of People Over 100 Years Old Reveal the Beauty of Aging Bodies

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

— Nikita Gill

Marie "Rie" Cramer (1887-1977). From Zonneschijn, 1926.

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“That the future’s unspecified terms provide a few recognizable basics, and that I might find, somewhere in me, a tension—the good kind—for tapping into what springs me forward, is, I reason, the hope. The discord, the din, what stays the same, what reappears, what’s underneath, the misremembered and all there is to fathom. Growing up, for a long period that’s not worth mentioning here, I thought the expression was “Play it by year.” As in, take your time. A whole year. More. Whatever you need. There’s no rush.”

— Durga Chew-Bose, from “At My Least and Most Aware,” in Too Much and Not the Mood

bone china cup by philip eglin

Picture by Daniel Hernanz Ramos