there is no reason to give up or to feel hopeless. show up for the carnival. trust the way will open beyond the good you can imagine. this experiment in human life on paradise is a blessing. give what you can to the avalanche of hope. give what you can to yourself. these are gemstones of the mind.

[Water Lilies by Beatrix Potter]

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

~Virginia Woolf

[18th c sun from Tantra Art by Ajit Mookerjee]

Photo of sunlit rose leaves against a wall with dark shadows.

rose leaves
spell of light
shadows writing
on the wall

You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

peony.

Wassily Kandinsky :
Three Stars, 1942

Oil on canvas | 12 × 16 inches

London, Christie's

Grace Under Pressure (The Golden Thread), 2019, by Stephanie Rew.
Pastel and gold leaf on paper.

At a Waterfall, Reykjavik

I still feel like
the world
is a piece
of bread

I’m holding
out half
to you.

—Eileen Myles
#poetry

[Water Lilies by Beatrix Potter]

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

you are someone who conjures the universal while waiting for a train. then there's this--.

love like a song from
a disjointed music box

Retro #0015 - Skyer og vindmøller ved Limfjorden før solnedgang

save the world

“We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.” ~ J G Ballard, The Crash

Constantin Flondor
Sky (Ravenna)

#beautiful #blooms
Today’s walk 🚶🏻‍♀️

it's not words or deeds
but the endless mesh of
invisible things that holds
me aloft, forever

Photo of an excerpt on hope from Too Much of Life: Collected Chronicles by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser.

Clarice Lispector - from Too Much of Life: Collected Chronicles

Self-portrait in an Italian courtyard.

Photo of a bridge over a sunlit river.

under the bridge
spring light
melts away

The mind I love must have wild places.

© Katherine Mansfield

Morning guys. Here's today's offering 😊 #StainedglassSunday #BeltonHouse #photography #church #religious

The Secret College
#joncarling #drawing #art

Meet me at sunrise, or sunset, or the new moon, the place is immaterial.

~Emily Dickinson

Akira Kusaka

I play guitar.

This is my sheet music:

🎨Cy Twombly
"Untitled"
1967

Bluebells in the village woods this evening.

💫

peony.