Flower Power🌷

John Michael Carter (American b,1950), Summer Reading, 1986, Oil on linen

Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister's House”, A Thousand Mornings

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Waiting - Marya Hornbachar

little weirds - jenny slate

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

Rise and collapse of a wave. Details of paintings by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939)

george clausen / edward potthast / nicholas hely hutchinson / victoria vitalyevna samsonova / jeremy miranda / suzanne siegel

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

“The Visit at Moonlight” by Edmund Thomas Parris, 1832

– Jean Rhys, from “Till September Petronella,” The Collected Short Stories (Norton, 1987)

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

Mary Oliver, from "Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?", Devotions

invitation, mary oliver// @arthoesunshine // when death comes, mary oliver//to be alive, gregory ott// the dead poets society(1989), quote: walden, henry david thoreau// joseph campbell// the aeneid, virgil// @babyangel-jpg // @rawjoy //sweet, charles bukowski// that it will never come again, emily dickinson// bjenny montero// ? // ? // moments, mary oliver// madness a bipolar life, marya hornbacher// wild geese, mary oliver// letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke// on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean voung// @ashstfu // i thought on his desire for three days, linda gregg

– Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

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– Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times