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Walnut shells cut in half.

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“You have so many autumns: so many selves, waiting to be shaken down.”

— Zhou Mengdie, tr. by Lloyd Haft, from “Nine Lives,” published c. May 1964

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September Affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid) by Keaton St. James

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Wallace Stevens, ‘The Dwarf’, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

[Text ID: “Now it is September and the web is woven. The web is woven and you have to wear it.”]

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“In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness - from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis”

— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby. (via ohroses)

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tiana from princess and the frog inspired by this antique

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Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”

[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]

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jubilee procession in a cornish village, george sherwood hunter x

Paper lanterns in art, x

I. In the Garden by Vladimir Gusev

II. Japanese Lanterns by Luther Emerson van Gorder

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Snigdha Koirala, from "longing so flawed"

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i just wanna say i planted some of you (swamp milkweed) in my yard! i thought of this blog while buying it

oh, how glorious! I hope you're visited by many monarch butterfly friends. knowing you thought of me made my day brighter☀️

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“Upon Turning 25, A Small Nervous Breakdown” by Megan Williams

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Members of carnivora paired with their common ancestor, a miacid. 

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[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly.  There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl.  The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like:  “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”  You live with this child, but you don’t know it.  You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy  At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy  You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.  Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you. 

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Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto.

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Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere