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Ghost - Cindy Rizza , 2018.
American, b. 1984 -
Oil on linen , 18 x 24 cm.
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The indifferent universe holds me like a baby nonetheless
“Even in the darkest night, if you strike a match, the shadows will flee. This is a law of nature; the darkness yields to the light, no matter how small the flame.”
— Jared White
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
— Margaret Atwood
“The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”
— Dalai Lama
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”
— Anaïs Nin
“All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.”
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
“What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.”
— Chester Bennington
“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”
— Nikita Gill
“I am paranoid about how much grief a tree can witness. That these woods grow older & never break their silence seems unfeeling.”
— Emily Skaja, “Elegy With Rabbits,” from Brute (via bostonpoetryslam)
“I am exhausted with trying to be stronger than I feel.”
— Unknown
“I am the forest, I am ancient. I treasure the stag, I treasure the deer. I shelter you from storm, I shelter you from snow. I resist the frost, I keep the source. I nurse the earth, I am always there. I build your house, I kindle your hearth. Therefore, you people, hold me dear.”
— Inscription found in a 17th century forester’s house in Lower Saxony, Germany (via inatt)
gets on one of those giant lily pads and just serenely floats into the horizon never to be seen again
“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”
— Philip K. Dick
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)
[text ID: I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.]
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
- Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters
Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.
Download 130-Year-Old Watercolors of Newly Discovered Fruits of the Time
bellowing out a river from my lungs
DISGUISE 🐺🐑
Vicious
Evangeline Gallagher 2018
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strange shadows
(critique and advice welcome! 💖)
PH. Kaeppelin
Memories! by George Ernest Studdy. 1922.
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Familiar Animals of North America. Written by Will Barker. Illustrated by Carl Burger. 1956.
Familiar Animals of North America. Written by Will Barker. Illustrated by Carl Burger. 1956.
Marie "Rie" Cramer (1887-1977). From Zonneschijn, 1926.
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