todos mis miedos

— iris murdoch

yasmeen ghauri by dominique issermann for elle germany,june 1993.

So you’re in your late teens, and summer is ending, and there’s a sadness to that—maybe you didn’t swim in the lake as many times as you’d hoped, or have a great adventure, or connect with someone you’d hoped to. You head to the bar to see if any friends are around, and they aren’t, but sitting there you’re all at once overwhelmed with that sudden euphoria that’s contained to specific moments. The clouds are so pink, this song makes your heart burst, and you tear a page out of your notebook to remind yourself of brief pure joy

Photo: Kate Bellm

Ungaro top x Vogue Paris 2000

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921

Tracey Emin, 2014

‘Home Girl’  Christy Turlington by Nathaniel Goldberg for Harper’s Bazaar US June 1999

(for Mary Oliver)

me: :)