words

I urge you to please notice
when you are happy,
and exclaim or murmur
or think at some point,
“If this isn't nice,
I don't know what is.” 

— Kurt Vonnegut


A graphic about synchronicity by <n>GIALLORENZO</n>.

“My solitude does not depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”


— Friedrich Nietzsche

Text-based artwork by <n>Yumi Sakugawa</n>.

In a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves and to, in turn, feel the need to be constantly visible.

For visibility these days seems to somehow equate to success.

Do not be afraid to disappear.

From it.
From us.
For a while.

And see what comes to you in the silence.

Michaela Coel
2021 Emmys Poem

"If you see something &amp; you like it, incorporate that into your personal style without listening to anybody else."

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.


— James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

A film still from <n>Oslo, August 31st</n> (2011).

<n>El nacimiento de Venus (según Botticelli)</n>, 2009, by artist <n>José Manuel Ballester</n>.

A list of <n>Character-Centered Compliments</n> by <n>ResetNYC</n>.

A still from <n>Akira Kurosawa</n>'s 1957 film, <n>Throne of Blood</n>.

do the people and things you love make you feel free?

I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions.
Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.

— Sylvia Plath