- ̗̀romanticized ̖́-

Commission for Cameron.

Alinakolot

By: perksoftales | perksoftales

↳ this feeling was different. I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. my tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. this, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. this and this and this! I thought him how to skip stones, and he thought me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin. he played my mother’s lyre, and I watched. when it was my turn to play, my fingers tangled in the strings and the teacher despaired of me. I did not care. ‘play again’, I told him. and he played until I could barely see his fingers in the dark. I saw them how I had changed. I did not mind any more, that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the toke and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. for who we can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? it was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. it was enough

Florence Welch - a photo that should be a renaissance painting

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Robert Kushner - The Queen in Her Boudoir, 2019

— Kurt Vonnegut (via quotemadness)

27-04-2020 | This morning's workspace is brought to you by rearranging the furniture to have a view of some greenery - the trees outside and my sunflowers inside.

what you are made up of are these worthy things. they are not all Big Things done at a certain time, to a certain standard, not a checklist of Accomplishments that prove you can now be taken seriously as a human and that validate you being here. the burnt garlic is what validates you, the overplayed song, the new recipes, even the stretches of time in which it feels you have done nothing count to this, and even here it is not nothing – it is being. there are many ways of doing, not all of it holds a material result. being is one of them, the heavy and the light. and that more than anything, is the worthiest thing.

Acrylic and watercolor on canvas ,