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Matabei Zakura, Uda City, Nara Prefecture. Photography by Koki Ueda

@fuehrsn

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Gaze , Two Cats - Kiyoshi Asai, 1952.

Japanese , 1902-1968

Woodblock

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Jean Jacques Fire, #Satan

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“I missed you until I realized there was never really anything to miss but the peace I felt before I knew you.”

— Unknown

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There’s a lot of truth in this…

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Paintings by J Edward Neill

This artist on Instagram

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*learns basic social skills well into my 20s that most people know by the time theyre like 11*

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me, as a kid: i can’t wait til i’m an adult so i can stay up late EVERY NIGHT

me, as an adult, crawling into bed at 6:30 pm: oh thank god

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“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away.”

— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life (via anamorphosis-and-isolate)

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does anyone else have Some Thing that happened a while back that they get really upset/angry about and as far as that other person knows, that matter is ‘settled’. but thats not how it feels to you, it doesnt feel settled, that wasnt enough, and every so often you get severely depressed or a bout of rage over it and you want to Start Shit again.

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“I am occasionally lovable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud.”

— Sara Quin

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“but being abused made you so kind!” being abused made me terrified of being anything less than perfectly accommodating and pleasing in an effort to protect myself from the violence my abuser reacted with but okay whatever

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