everything is okay all the time

Reading Times, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1930

Willy Pogany (American, 1882–1955) - Hand to the Stars

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009, American) ~ Two if by Sea, 1995 Private Collection © 2019 Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Jill McDonough, “Love and the Deli Counter”

Nicole Carvajal — It Paradise (oil on canvas, 2015)

Markus Åkesson, Your heart is safe with me, 2019 Oil on canvas 

Thanks to @obviouslybiased for pointing me toward this artist.

hi everybody in the world. can i have a hug

Jesse Dayan (Australia, 1982) - Alex at the Party (2021)

Ferdinand Keller (or von Keller) (German, 1842-1922)

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

Been thinking of this one.

i can feel it watching

someone who isn't me

Ollie Schminkey

[Image Transcription of a poem titled "THE FIRST BIRTHDAY HE IS NOT ALIVE":

we all order his favorite drink.

we forget the hole he punched in the door. the hole he shot through the dog. he was so good at making holes, except when it came time to dig one for his body.

there could be bones mixed in with our flour, and we would never even know. we could be eating cookies, and he could be dead inside our mouths.

it feels stupid to be sad when he was mean for so long. he only got nice when he was dying, and i don't know if that counts as becoming a better person.

sometimes, i imagine him watching over me, and i hide.]

Fair ‘N’ Square - Albuquerque, NM 2020

Richie Hofmann, "Armed Cavalier"

[ID: Stars, slow traffic, / the summer I wished you loved me / enough to kill me, / but not really. END ID.]

Das Tal der Flammen/The Valley of Flames Hermann Hendrich (1854-1931)