memoryslandscape:

“But what I felt with you was different. I was aware of a part of myself I’d never seen in a mirror or in anyone else’s eyes. It was all around me–there in the current of the river, there in the flying shadows of our hands. It seemed time was moving through us, racing through us, and we were together standing still.”

— Howard Axelrod, from “To the Girl at the Riverbend,” Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, ed. Colleen Kinder (Algonquin Books, 2022)

27dragons:

rhube:

blipdripstrip-deactivated202109:

There was a wall here once. The tree remembers, but now the wind blows through roots that once nestled among stones.

climbing through that gap will DEFINITELY take you somewhere Else

funeral:

“Destruction, like creation, is one of nature’s mandates”

— Marquis   de  Sade

Christian Dior 1998

quotefeeling:

“Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You