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Summer haze

“August of another summer, and once again

I drink the sun

and the lilies are spread across the water”

-Mary Oliver, from Felicity, The Pond

theres no thought out there that makes my heart ache more than the thought that someone in the ancient world looked up at the same moon that i look at every night and loved its silvery beauty as much as i

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

hey watch this

I can make almost every single post-Soviet country person on this website feel specific heart-wrenching nostalgia at the same time with one very vague painting:

(source: Evgeny Lushpin - Dusk (Сумерки) 2000)

there is no force of nature that says “come here” like the ocean

Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

men are fucked up but i like it when they have nose rings

“if you gave me the chance I’d love you until the last star in the universe blinks away”

— let us try by Abby S

I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

we really be treating this planet as if we have other options and shit

does anyone want to join my midnight shovel club?  we walk around the streets at midnight with shovels

David Hermelin & Boy Ivarson in ‘Adam & Adam’ by Christoffer Sundqvist (st. Sandra Ekenstam) for Lewis Magazine, May 2018

All men were at one point a boy trapped inside a woman’s body.

Rodarte S/S 2019

This looks like a Degas painting or something

So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

We’re bros

Assumption of the Virgin by Egid Quirin Asam, ca. 1717. This three-dimensional display comprised of multiple statues is without a doubt one of the most stunning works of art I’ve ever seen - a true credit to Catholic art.

sweetie cows 🐄💛

The Two-Headed Calf By Laura Gilpin

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

i couldnt stop you i couldnt stop you

“My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.”

— Jack Kerouac, from “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings,”

i realised there was no gender neutral for “my sister from another mister” or “brother from another mother” and so I present to you all “my sib from another crib”

fish do not have shoulders

shout out to me in 5 years…hope shes doing something cool i’m rooting for her

We make fun of clumsy cats and dogs, but some of them probably just need glasses and we can’t know it.

“I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.”

—

Virginia Woolf 

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

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Unspoken rule of the head nod: Nod down to strangers and up to friends