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Maisy,  February 11, 1999 – November 22, 2001

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Loré Pemberton (@lorepemberton)

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Kiyoshi Saitō (1907 - 1997) - Cats. Colour woodcut.

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“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

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When a drunk girl outside a club bathroom speaks… you listen. If she tells you that you’ll find love despite being hurt in the past? She’s right. If she tells you to stop being so self-aware? She’s right. They are the modern day Oracles at Delphi and must be taken at their every word

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Abandoned Farm House, Canada, Photo by Larry Towell, 1970s

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2019-12-08

https://www.instagram.com/hwantastic79vivid/

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Jenny Slate, from an interview Hozier on twitter  Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else

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Wonderland by Jaume Plensa (Spanish artist), photo by Hernan (@h_strian)

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Eloïse Heinzer, “Fleurs bleues”

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This little girl has a great father

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Inktober day 6

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Elibeidy Dani photographed by Roe Ethridge for Another Magazine Spring / Summer 2018

Stylist: Katie Shillingford Hair: Tamara McNaughton Makeup: Hiromi Ueda

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Ceramics shop, Nabeul (Tunisia)

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Are we seeing the same sky?

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The Child Sleeps by Jessica Shirley *