melodies and desires

Velvet pax

Such a simple thing that often gets taken for granted now because we validate scenarios by explosive feelings. But it’s the little things that are the big things (or maybe I’m just too wholesome for my own good 😝)

"In Gaza today, God is under the rubble. He is in the operating room. If Christ were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble. We see his image in every child killed and pulled from under the rubble. In every child in incubators," writes Rev. Munther Isaac of the church.

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

Traci Brimhall, from her poem titled "Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It,"

tamara obukhova

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter"

Porcelain art by Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, 2021-22.

ISABELLE ADJANI as Anna POSSESSION dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981

Ron Arad - Concrete Stereo