Ode To Flora

“You don’t meet the people you love, you recognize them.”

— Anna Gavalda, “Life, Only Better” - translated by Tina Kover 

What a silly thought

to think that the point of a relationship

is to be forever.

I have had forevers last six months

and forevers last two years

and still they run through my veins

as lessons

as experiences

as growth.

Never minimize a relationship as a failure

just because it has completed its’ course

Salome, 1923, Charles Bryant

Ed van der Elsken : Pierre and Paulette (Kiss with Hand Around Cheek), 1951.

Act like you’re blessed. Talk like you’re blessed. Walk like you’re blessed. Think like you’re blessed. Smile like you’re blessed. Dress like you’re blessed. Put actions behind your faith, and one day you will see it become a reality.

“How much did you say the room was?”

© Eric Frot, Château-Landon, France - 2017

There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.

Hugh Laurie (via thiscoffeedrenchedlife)

To taste the gentle moon,

John Keats, from The Complete Poems and Selected Letters; “Endymion,” (via violentwavesofemotion)