you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?

obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.

The natural companion post to my favorite post

The Gardener’s House at the Palace of Versailles, France

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

Dying star, Konstantin Korobov

Light in the kitchen

Madrid, Spain – 1/21/08

Heart of Water by Claire Choquet on Flickr

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

Ellen Bass, "The Thing Is"

what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

Lisbon, Portugal, 1998. Photos by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

from laurarbenson

You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

David Shrigley

Julien Baker, Loss Protocol

spring is coming. Spring IS COMING. You will stand on soft grass again, and feel the sun kiss your cheeks and shoulders. you will eat of the same berries as the animals returned from their hibernation. you will hear the air alive with your collective breathing.

Simone Weil, 'Void and Compensation' (in Gravity and Grace, trans. Emma Craufurd)