Chaotichandle - SANTA.

What you get is what you see.

“I wanted everything; I wanted to be enormous and overwhelming, yawning and expansive like the light.”

—

Gwendolyn MacEwen, from “Mermaids & Ikons: A Greek Summer,”

“If man were to come to grips with his real nature, if he were to discover his real heritage, he would become so exalted, or else so frightened, that he would find it impossible to go to sleep again. To live would be a perpetual challenge to create. But the very thought of a possible, swift and endless metamorphosis terrifies him. He sleeps now, not comfortably to be sure, but certainly more and more obstinately, in the womb of a creation whose only need of verification is his own awakening.”

— Henry Miller, Sunday After the War

Look deeply in my eyes; a twin mirrors of dusk. Beware of the melancholy in them.

“You create your own world by your inner attitude,”

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Year of the Flood,” published c. 2009

Utonulá / Drowned Woman, 1893 - pastel on cardboard. ― Jakub Schikaneder (Czech, 1855-1924)

𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.