Carter Noir's "It's Never Forever..."

Alfred Stevens (1823 - 1906) 

From Washington College’s 1931 yearbook.

Uplifting: my modest collection of vintage flying horses.

great void practice

you have your mother’s trouble with nerves as you bundle yourself together you have her soft touch and cool hands when the fevers hit

she was devoted, sometimes so much that you felt forgotten, or unworthy of asking for what you needed

you have her instinct for healing the recognition of suffering and you mastered an ancient art while you were only young so it didn’t take very long for you to recognise the secret wounds that your mother was carrying

SEMENTINE

[adjective]

pertaining to sowing; of the time of seeding fields.

Etymology: ultimately derived from Latin semen, “seed of plants, animals or men; inborn characteristic; posterity; progeny; offspring,” figuratively, “origin, essence, principle, cause”.

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