“The Earth Turned To Bring Us Closer, It Spun On Itself And Within Us, And Finally Joined Us Together

being compassionate to yourself involves making it a discipline to do the things that you love, no matter how many times you attempt to convince yourself that it’s no use. being compassionate with yourself involves sitting down and writing, even when you feel insecure about the work you’re producing. being compassionate with yourself involves taking a walk outside because you haven’t had any fresh air the whole day. being compassionate with yourself involves committing yourself to learning something new even if it hasn’t gone well many times before. being compassionate with yourself is about committing to the discipline of self-betterment and healing.

“The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories, everyone knows them by heart, but when someone tells them with love, I don’t know, they seem new…that’s what I think anyway.”

— Andrés Neuman, Traveller of the Century (trans. Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia)

‘Flowering Trees of the Orient’ (1921).

Garden catalogue from A. E Wohlert, the Garden Nurseries.

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

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She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

– James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

This dude said any time you put expectations on your life you reduce the compassion and appreciation you’ll have for the experiences you live and though this is something I already knew on an intuitive level, to hear someone else say it has me burrowing into its truth like a sinkhole

drawing by Evan M Cohen from his comic “Oceans”

steph shiu, ibby sow, and lee jeno wearing peter do for nyfw

Nizar Qabbani

clermont twins shot by erika kamano for office magazine 17 (spring 2022)

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