Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.
James Baldwin This morning, this evening, so soon
Aron Wiesenfeld: The Pond (2023)
'george wright's garden in dorset, england' in livingsculpture - paul cooper (2001)
Children in Rafah are preparing to welcome the holy month of Ramadan, after 145 days of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Danielle Orchard 🌷 Lint, 2021🌹
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1970
dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
Chelsea Dingman, from Through A Small Ghost
Longing - Czesław Miłosz
Kaveh Akbar, from "Forfeiting My Mystique", Pilgrim Bell
The indifferent universe holds me like a baby nonetheless
Virginia Woolf, from The Waves
Angela Lane, Phenomenon #49, 2021
When it rains the white petals of Diphylleia Grayi also known as skeleton flowers, turn crystal clear.
