“My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.”
Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘢𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰 FW09
Farley Granger as Arthur “Bowie” Bowers in They Live by Night (1948) dir. Nicholas Ray
Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)
[Text ID: Maybe this longing is our way of surviving]
beauty standards are so fucked up what happened to i love your body because it's you. what then.
Deer and jackdaws.
The birds feed on ticks from the deer, and also assist in removing velvet from growing antlers.
LOTR Triptych, by Yaroslava Murashko.
Natalie Wee, Least of all
Image I.D. — “I kneel into a dream / where I am good & loved. / I am good. I am loved.” — End I.D.
Artist Mikhail Kugach
