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Wikipedia / Image from pinterest / Machiavelli / George Santayana / Thucydides / Image from pinterest / Abba - Waterloo / J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan / Fibonacci spiral / Catherynne M. Valente

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by benpiercephotography

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Trees on the march. The magic forest. 1903.

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4 months left of 2024 moodboard

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baotuquan趵突泉, jinan济南, shandong province in china by 凡不烦

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out of death

life always grows

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Eighteen year old me, she sits in greener pastures and sees it as the next stepping stone toward survival, nothing more. She does not stop to see how the color shifts when the light shines through it.

She sits in greener pastures / Helena Ducusin

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me when i accept

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In the spring I emerged slowly and then all at once. I have spent every day since getting used to the prospect of being okay, telling my jaw to unclench and shoulders to drop for good. I hesitated to let myself believe it would last until belief dripped in through the covers I had pulled over my head. The defense was never impenetrable but I marveled at the first inkling anyway—Maybe it will stay okay.

This inkling, now having been swallowed, sits in my stomach as the year swings around to September once again. Does this mean the dread has nowhere to go? Am I allowed to tell it I’m not hungry, I am full enough with life and there is no need to stay?

trickle down orange / helena ducusin

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I’m a simple human i see sunset and be instantly amazed every time

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Vintage French Still Life Roses with Chinoiserie Oriental Bird Fabric (detail), c. 1950. Reyne Marin de Pyerne

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Illustrations from Fairyland by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1931)