love changes you, in the end, I will not recognise the shape that I am

frost-death in early morning

To lead a girl to water

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The red planet. Presidential design awards 2000.

Internet Archive

“Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.”

— Richard Siken, Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone

House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii.

When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness?

Charles Bukowski

View from the ether, Jeremy Miranda

Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

"Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

Jessica McDaniel

this morning