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this will always be one of my favourite photos of her

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William Bronk, Selected Poems

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16th century flower illustration PNGs.

(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515)

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And I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you’ve lost.

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Hugo Simberg.  Children in disguise on the porch of the Andersins’ villa, Gadd’s children and Karin and Lisa Andersin, 1906. 

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S. Erin Batiste, from "Date Night"

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Mary Oliver, from “Lead.” [ID in alt text]

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“My world was warm with April sun my thoughts were spangled green and gold; my soul filled up with joy, yet felt the sharp, sweet pain that only joy can hold.”

— fr. “I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”, Sylvia Plath

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No Nothing by Molly Brodak

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

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Woods & Stars Wallpaper

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Specimens of printing types cast - Bruce’s (George) Son and Company - 1848 - via Internet Archive

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Epoch Rabbit Fruit Miniatures

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When the setting sun kisses the horizon picocoon.art

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Doll house, 1890s, Germany.

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sanyu, "pink cat," 1930s, oil on canvas