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So many excellent textures in York

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maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

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william and adso :)

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i loved this little scene

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the allergy i am seeing grow up around small talk in any form is troubling to me. do you know how to make friends with people in your physical environment? it typically starts with small talk. do you want to live in community? small talk. do you want to have the type of relationship with your neighbors where you can run over and borrow a battery for your smoke detector when it starts beeping at 10pm? small talk!! do you want leeway from your coworkers when you fuck up something small? you gotta be able to build a relationship and that's small talk, baybeee.

"but i don't need friends and i don't care about community!" okay, lone ranger, what about the people in your community who need you? "but i have social anxiety!" me too, bud! we simply must soldier on. making up lists of questions to ask people helps. and people are predisposed to be generous, i've found. even if you make some kind of mistake, what is this but the natural give and take of human interaction? nobody is perfect.

you were not put on this earth to live by yourself and then die. you need people and people need you. treat those around you with curiosity and generousness of spirit and you will gain so much goodwill in return.

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“Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air—An armful of white blossoms, a perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings.”

Swan by Mary Oliver

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The Glass Palace, Madrid 2023

Imanol Villota©️

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The Singer (La cantante mondana), c.1884 by Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842–1931)

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The Knight of the Flowers, 1894, by Georges Rochegrosse. Detail and photo by Paul Perrin. Edit.

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"Es war Wien und es war Winter"

Vienna - 2023

Leica M6 - Kodak Portra160

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A Square in La Roche Guyon painted by Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)

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"White Night", Anna Akhmatova (translated by D. M. Thomas)

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— Mary Oliver

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Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)

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Seven Sisters, East Sussex, England by alfeeee

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tatyana alanis