youth

Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

The street you lived on as a child seems more real than the one you live on now. – Michael Lipsey

Marilyn Monroe in Amagansett, New York, 1957. Photo by Sam Shaw.

ronan at the barns (napping with cows)

Fernando Pessoa, “A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe” | A. Timofeev, “Spring” | Mikko Harvey, “For M” | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Adele “When We Were Young” | Willem Haenraets, “A Letter for Two Friends” | Alain de Botton | Hishaam Siddiqi, “Where Did You Go?” | @honeytuesday | Edward Hopper, “Pensive Lady in Pink” | George R.R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones”

when i was a sophomore, there was a  senior in my photography class who seemed to be made entirely of cigarette smoke; his hair was always in his eyes but it was short on the sides and in  the back. i would ask him the time just so he would speak to me and his breath smelled like chapstick and  menthols. i touched his hand in the dark room once accidentally and i apologized. he pushed me up against the wall and put his mouth on my mouth hard and fast and i could tell he had chain-smoked four cigarettes on the  way to school. i grabbed the collar of his soft flannel and pulled him into me. his hands went up my shirt and i had his lip in my teeth when the bell rang. as i was fixing myself up he leaned into me and told me i should probably                      get a watch.

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Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, 2019)