A volcano erupting in Iceland. (Source)
The Oakland Post Enquirer, California, May 7, 1931
I love it when an artist puts out a concept album and the concept is that they had a mental breakdown
i'm not a human i'm a magical goblin!! i cook soup with vegetables from my backyard garden and hang out in the woods. this is also entirely true and not a form of escaping reality.
Head of Apollo found on the Basilica di S. Stefano/Villa degli Anicii site, Rome.
via @/anticaeviae
imagine ur living inside a tiny mushroom house... with a tiny chimney.... deep in the woods... no one knows u exist... u make soup in a tiny pot.....u are free
Favorite Photos Friday
Misty mountain hike in Mount Rainier National Park
sleeping fields, december 2021
shot on 35mm film
it's easy for people to say "it's not that deep" when they're not living it. sometimes we say it to cheer someone up when they're going through something. but you know what else is okay? maybe it is that deep for you. and that's okay. maybe it is that deep for you right now, but it won't be forever. feelings change all the time. what once scared you to death, you might be doing with ease now or not even thinking about. or maybe things you never worried about suddenly start weighing heavy on your mind. let's just remember that feelings are not final. what we need to learn is how to feel them, and how to exist beside them. sometimes that means certain feelings will be overwhelming or dominating you when they shouldn't. but if life was perfect and we never felt anything troubling then we'd never make any experiences and we'd all prob have the same character and personality. who wants that??
the brain craves the diet coke, the body despises it, what else is new??
winter fruit, december 2022.
shot on iphone 6s
The Drowned, by Josef Manés (1867).
Ariana Papademetropoulos (Greek-American, b. 1990)
Celestial Penance, 2024
oil on canvas
birthdays are so much fun because my brain is always like okay u have three options: cry, panic attack or feel numb and unreal the whole day
Evening at the Iris Field - Timothy Easton (b.1943)
slowly regrowing my attention span but it feels like that one time i tried planting some peas in the garden when i was 12
The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is our portal to the unseen world.
Rick Rubin
by Gianluca Grisenti
The Complete Book of Home Decorating (1994) Barbara Mayer
Yoshito Machida – Whisper Blue (1981)
i went on a walk today again and i kept thinking about how the more you try to control what happens in your life, the more unhappy you will be with it. at least up to a certain point. the more you think you know what you want, the unhappier you will be once you get it and realize what the reality of living with it is like.
society is so fixated on finding your purpose, reaching goals and achievements but that's mainly because we're scared of dying and realizing how miniscule our existence really is in the grand scheme of things. that's one of the main reasons why so many people wanna be remembered for something. and there's nothing wrong with wanting that but there's also nothing wrong with not finding your purpose, or just achieving things that society deems "small" or "unimportant". if it's important to you then it matters. our baseline purpose is to just live our lives and exist. anything else on top of that is a bonus, but not necessary.
if i learned one thing in my almost 30 years of existing, it's that during the course of your life you will realize the ways in which you will reach your goals or find your purpose will be different than you imagined. the less you resist that truth, the less you will be worried about the future and the more at peace you will feel with your existence.
Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
Song, Allen Ginsberg