Joanne Woodward on location while filming The Long, Hot Summer in Jackson, Louisiana, 1958
when the light does the thing that makes you feel like you were in here 20 000 years ago
some favorites since i've been home
Golden Fields, Amber Brunsden β 2023 Oil on canvas
French School, 20th Century - The black cat
[ID: photo of Siren Song by Ragnhild May, a bronze sculpture of a mermaid's head wearing a pair of overear wired headphones. She has her eyes closed, hair pulled back, and head tilted slightly to one side. End ID]
JODIE FOSTER by Zoey Grossman for ELLE US, Dec 2023/Jan 2024
on my hands and knees begging you to eat food that nourishes u, stay hydrated, dance to feel good music first thing in the morning, give urself grace for mistakes but simultaneously hold urself accountable, give others grace but simultaneously expect them to do better, care about other people even if it doesnβt directly affect you, get a good lash serum, get a lip balm that doesnβt feel too grainy and has the perfect glossy finish, consume poetry in appreciable quantities even on days where life is packed, experience negative emotion without sanitizing it with therapy speak bc ur a human and u were put on this earth to feel feel feel, moisturize every inch of ur body, truly introspect and ask urself if u urself match the standards u have for other people, put perfume on ur pulse points and feel it emanate ur heartbeat, do something challenging to stimulate ur soul, take up a skill based hobby, make lists and stick w them, take an intentional day off ur phone to detox, stop comparing bc no one is u (only u are u), put urself in clothes that make u feel confident in that wonderful miraculous body of urs, tilt ur head towards the sun whenever u step out of the house, clean ur bedroom w the windows open and the breeze fluttering past the curtains, make meaningful connections both with urself and with other people (including ur seniors bc they have so much wisdom to impart)
also decentralize the idea that love only comes in the form of one person who will magically walk into ur life one day and make it so much more fun and exciting. centralize the idea that love is working towards a humanitarian cause w other people who care as much as u do, love is surprising ur mother with flowers on a random tuesday, love is doing something for ur friend, love is appreciating that ur alive and that u could write bad poetry about it.
me and the girlies discussing motifs and themes
tell me a pretty thing.
In Uzbek we have this concept of the divine dark, the darkness from which all things came. So thereβs this idea that shows up in a lot of our literature that when the world was first made it was like a gentle night, peaceful, quiet and pitch-black. The night is when creation started and the night is when youβre closest to glimpsing what it was like at the very start of the world.
oh wow that's gorgeous.