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The desire to be beautiful is giving me brain damage

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the friend you miss comes home for good. you never see another mirror. it's summer forever and that terrible thought you keep having finally disappears.

the goldfinch, donna tartt / landscape with a blur of conquerors, richard siken / blue horses, mary oliver 

that's it that's the whole show

John William Godward

British, 1861-1922

An Offering to Venus (detail)

Hand Illustrations by Rim Bitik

Dreamy guestroom in interior designer Howard Slatkin’s Fifth Avenue apartment [x]

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to to the person holding it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead - you first,” “I like your hat.”

- Danusha Laméris, “Small Kindnesses"