girls will have one set back a decade ago and use that as jet fuel to power through a million accomplishments and still look for validation in the void
normalize taking breaks then extending the breaks, carving out peace and silence and using precious time for only the most necessary things
keeping it short and sweet but it all worked out in the end and we are exactly where we dreamed of being
one day you will get the keys to the house you’ll share with the love of your life. they’ll point to the empty walls and say we need to display your paintings here, and pictures of us there. together you’ll plan out the best layout for entertaining our family and friends. you’ll create the kind of home where there is safety, support, and so much love.
trust me, when you see a dove couple doing this for half an hour without ever getting bored of each other, something in you changes fundamentally
Takashima Yajūrō aka 高島野十郎 aka Yajuro Takashima aka Yajuurou Takashima (Japanese, 1890-1975, b. Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) - Kanna and Cosmos aka Autumn Flowers, 1953, Paintings: Oil on Canvas, Private Collection
the more i see how up bringing and family environment determines self esteem and quality of life the kinder i am to myself. growing beyond what you were taught is something to be celebrated. loving yourself despite it is a gift.
known for creating iconic boundaries like, “i’m proud of what i did, but no, i will not be doing it any more” and other hits such as, “if i can do something does not mean i want to”
was thinking i was not into posting anything because I’m changing, maturing if you will. turns out I’m going through maybe the worst burn out experience I’ve had yet? but for all the extra things i was doing out of passion? that i just need to stop my hamster wheel and touch grass? oops
“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
RIP Joan Didion
Thinking about the past decade of growing up, making messes, and things that deserved to end on better terms for how formative they were.
In it all I see myself just showing up and trying with all I had. If I could I’d set a small raft out to sea with (biodegradable) mementos for every person and experience that transformed me. From a first job, to multiple tries at finding my identity, to seeing myself.
The idea of a future self kept me going. I’m here now with honestly a weak memory of the really hard stuff (thank you brain for protecting me from the remaining hurt). There are still things to work out (aren’t there always?). The difference after a decade is now I ask myself why rush? I was here all along.
brian kershiznik / franz stuck / lane demoll / words of lane demoll in the description of their painting “circle dance (six witches)”
transannecarson
Cave Painting, Dance Scene
Simhat Torah by Lloyd Bloom (1984)
David Seymour, Children of Europe (Budapest, Hungary. 1948)
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Warren B. Davis (1865-1928)
here is a thesis for those who are interested in the circle dance The Circle in Dance Movement Therapy. A literature review. by Elena Karampoula
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Los Niños (The Children) by Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia, 1960.