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Edvard Munch, Winter Landscape, 1906

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Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noël / Fröhliche Weihnachten / Feliz Natal / Buon Natale.

Hollywood & Vine during Christmas (1953). - source Historic Los Angeles.

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It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Whoa!

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It's probably not very interesting, but, I was looking through Polish paintings and noticed a trend...

Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914)

Mieczysław Korwin Piotrowski (1869-1930)

Czesław Wasilewski (Ignacy Zygmuntowicz) (1875-1947)

Jan Karmański (1887-1958)

Wiktor Korecki (1890-1980)

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Tuva, 1955. Photo by Karalkin Petr Ivanovich

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I’d be long dead in a ditch somewhere or just an absolute shell of myself if I internalized even a quarter of the things people said I was after I didn’t give them what they wanted from me. This period of my life keeps reminding me of Baldwin’s: “You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not its idea of you.” And Audre Lorde’s: “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

Getting closer to 30 has been about realizing how deep self-betrayal runs in me and how profoundly I want to be liberated from acting like this. It’s boring and predictable. Sacrificing myself has never led to any real growth, fulfillment, or strength… I would much rather the discomfort of loss. I love and respect myself too much now to lay down for people. They will kill you if you let them.

People are going to decide who you are based on a myriad of factors completely out of your control and relevant only to their perspective and experience. I’ve learned it’s best just to say that ain’t got shit to do with me and move on for your peace of mind and spirit.

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Robert Adams, Summer Nights, Walking: On the Colorado Front, 1976 - 1982

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Alfred Edmund Brehm

German, 1829-1884Die Insekten, Tausendfüssler und Spinnen PI 19 (1877)

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Group of Seven Sculptural Historic Oyster Poles

With Convex Circular Seed Housings and Raised Traces of Lime

Weathered, Hand Carved and Sea Pickled Oak

French, Atlantic Coast, c.1880

Robert Young

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Female Dervish

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Poster advertising Berlowitz, a shoemaker at the 24 Munzstrasse, Berlin, featuring a serpent-like creature coiled around a shoe (c. 1910). Artwork by Barabás Steglitz.