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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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Athiec Geng by Javier Castán for CAP 74024 December 2024

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It’s not about romanticizing the mundane but about being receptive to the beauty that’s already there. The mundane isn’t void of meaning or romanticism; it’s rich with stories waiting to be uncovered and retold, beauty waiting to be seen and acknowledged — a flicker of sunlight on a windowsill, a stranger's smile in passing, the muffled music from your neighbors through the wall, the way steam rises from a cup of tea. Yet, to see it requires more than just looking — it asks for a surrender, a willingness to let go of cynicism and to meet the world on its own terms. Perhaps this is where the art of living begins — not in searching for grand happenings but in learning to embrace the quiet magic of what’s already in front of us. The extraordinary doesn’t need to be created; it has always been there, nestled within the folds of the ordinary, waiting patiently to be seen.

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Ocean Vuong, “NPR” (via @ coolcatkylie - Pinterest) // Linda Pastan, “Five Stages of Grief” (via @ Amandagnagy - Pinterest) // Sarah Kane, “Crave” (via @ shesalady1984 - Pinterest) // via @ revnardent - Pinterest // via @ dissociativecollective - Tumblr // Notes from an exhibition by Patrick Gale, page 36 (via @ chelseajayne01 - Pinterest) // Ada Limón, “After the Fire” (via @ havingapoemwithyou - Tumblr) // Jamie Anderson (via @ emmagarcia868 - Pinterest) // “Aristos: The Musical” (via @ mahiii24 - Pinterest) // Heidi Priebe, “As Long As There Is Love, There Will Be Grief” (via @ deadpoetswilde - Instagram)

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“I feel profoundly alone, cut off, unattractive...  I feel unloveable. But I respect that unloveable soldier — struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honourable. I respect myself.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980.

— Diane Arbus, “Susan Sontag alone on a bed. N.Y.C.𝟣𝟫𝟨𝟧.”

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Patti’s holding a gun

Chelsea Hotel, 1970

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I WANT YOU TO BE MINE. SELFISHLY, THOUGHTLESSLY, MINE

@vaitiolo ; // “Orpheus and Eurydice”, by Virgil; // H.G. Wells, from a letter to Rebecca West (w. April, 1913); // “No, I don’t miss the dissipated night’s”, by Alexander Pushkin (tr. by D.M. Thomas) (1832); // “Blue is the Warmest Color”, by Ghalia Lacroix (2013); // “The Voyage Out”, by Virginia Woolf (1915); // Virgina Woolf; // “Soft Human”, by Emery Allen (2019)

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you're allowed to be held.

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thinking about diomedes of argos

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Zhongwen Yu (Chinese,b.1984)

gooey, 2015

Oil on canvas

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Japanese Garden, Victoria Island, Canada ( via )

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rachel corrie’s letters

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J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

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Hu Zhiying — Atoms IV (oils, acrylics, lacquer, on canvas, 1997)

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Nature of Nakhidjevan Photo by Danielyan