little pieces...

“THE WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL CAN ONLY BE MOURNED ALONE.”
― JAMES FREY, A MILLION LITTLE PIECES"

-James Frey, A million little pieces

 Julia Hetta

see...

"SEE THE LIGHT IN OTHERS, AND TREAT THEM AS IF THAT IS ALL YOU SEE."

~   Wayne Dyer

lina scheynius

second chances….

If it weren't for chances, we'd all be alone.

-Gregory Alan Isakov

Sigmar Polke, Ohne Titel 1984, gelatin silver print

mastered...

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

Yasmin Mogahed 
Ville Varumo

never….

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back.

It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am.
I never look back.
Never.” 

― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
Clémence Poésy by Stefania Paparelli for Crash #40 Fall 2006

to rise...

"More than

the flower

I wish to be

the stem,

to rise from

the dirt;

to blossom"

Pavana पवन
roses green by Debbie Carlos

I cannot...

"I cannot make you understand.

I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.

I cannot even explain it to myself."

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis  

"Voeu d’artifices": Lara Stone by Paolo Roversi for M le Magazine du Monde November 2012

existence

"whiskey makes the heart beat faster

but it sure doesn’t help the

mind and isn’t it funny how you can ache just

from the deadly drone

of existence?"

— Charles Bukowski, Purple Glow

Jenseits der Stille (1996), dir.Caroline Link

air...

I would like to be the air

that inhabits you for a moment only.
I would like to be that unnoticed

and that necessary.

— Margaret Atwood, from “Variation on the Word Sleep
Photography by INA JANG.

be(longing)

and what about belonging?

I have not yet found a place to be..

…so i am here

the evidence of a life

time spent longing.

be(longing) - Tapiwa Mugabe

Paloma Wool

All of the stars...

"So can you see the stars?

Over Amsterdam

You're the song my heart is

Beating to."

-Ed Sheernan
Ph. ISMAËL MOUMIN ”Untitled”

And sometimes...

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself,

because I could find no language to describe them.

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibillity
Kristen McMenamy photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Italia September 2009.

shaky….

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold to your own ground.

If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

-Red Haircrow
Christine Phung|GREGOIRE ALEXANDRE

Speak softly to me...

"Speak softly to me,

whisper across the distance,

that you are coming home."

Daily Haiku on love  by Tyler Knott Gregson

The Coming Pleats, photographed by Shigeo Shidara for High Fashion Magazine October 1998

This...

“ This bed I fall asleep in 

reminds me of those books

I read when I was younger,

sheets bent in the same

pattern I left them in, 

spine tired and worn. 

This is what it looks like

to be adored, I tell myself,

this is what it feels like

to fall in love with words

written for someone else. 

I read you in all the sleepless

creases you left in my pillow,

the words you spilled in the

dreams we used to share. 

We reach for books the way

we reach for our beds,

for comfort, for familiarity. 

We love the way it feels

when our hearts break 

the same way we built them. 

The books you’ve read

you will read again,

time will pass and you’ll

remember beginnings

but not how they end;

you will fall asleep in the

same shape you ended

your last story in, because

you’ve forgotten how to close

your eyes and how to start again. 

This is what happens when we

make stories out of people,

when we bring them home with us

and create bookmarks out of all

the places we used to make love. 

But beds are like books,

I tell myself, tired and worn

to the bone; and this is what

it looks like to be adored, 

I’ve been told. This is what

it feels like to fall in love

with stories that were never

written for you. ”

—  ||  Maza-Dohta 

-Egon Schiele- couple (1909)

Dance...

Dance, when you're broken open.

Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

Dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood.

Dance when you're perfectly free.” 

― Rumi

Elvis Presley

I long...

I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me.

There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

―Margaret Fuller
Caitlin Durlak

Soak...

"Soak your words 

in your mind

before you speak,

let your thoughts

blossom."

—Maza-Doht
mady dooijes (instagram)

I want...

I want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life"

-Jeff Buckley, on moving to New York 

 Jem Mitchell for Bare-Journal #1 Spring 2014

Kindness….

"Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love."

-Lao Tzu 
Lourdes Castro's Grand Herbier D'Ombres

come...

"LISTEN TO THE RAIN,
THE SOUNDTRACK OF THIS MORNING,
COME NOW AND HEAR TOO."

~   DAILY HAIKU ON LOVE BY TYLER KNOTT GREGSON

Melankoli. Ruby Aldridge By Lina Scheynius. Vogue Turkey November 2012 

away...

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

-Vincent can Gogh in a letter to his brother

Katia Chausheva

a song to strengthen your faith….

Here

My hands as a pair of cups

to pour your tears

I will quieten your mind

so you can write your soul

I will be darkness to free your eyes 

You are sounds of home 

I am night stretching

to make room for your star

Making time for you

to learn how to twinkle again

So you may heal before dawn

I will give my heart and time

Just to see your smile

I see you

You do not need saving. 

Only reminding of who you are

a song to strengthen your faith - Tapiwa Mugabe

ph. Joseph Paradiso