“I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don’t want to look at it anymore, you stop.”
Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
Instagram: @solitudeismyeuphoria
Every single craft has been paying “The Passion Tax” for generations. This term (coined by author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant) — and backed by scientific research — simply states that the more someone is passionate about their work, the more acceptable it is to take advantage of them. In short, loving what we do makes us easy to exploit.
Believe Me, Love, It Was the Nightingale
Watercolor On Black Paper
2023, 22"x 30"
Blue Larkspur, Wild Delphiniums
“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
— Tyler Kent White
all i can do is stand on the curb and say sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine.
Someone who sees you deeply without confusing you for the walls you made to protect and hide yourself. Someone who can find you.
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats, from The Family Library of Poetry and Song edited by William Cullen Bryant, 1886
Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
~Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now