i make paintings now here is one

lifeinpoetry:

What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.

— Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!

ackersam:

nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and five beers and a head injury and jerking off and killing myself can’t fix

heavenlyyshecomes:

jess allen, the passing of time (2023)

the-hearth-and-the-wild:

How does one hate a country, or love one?…I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

fragrantblossoms:

Giuseppe Penone. Matrice di linfa – Ricordo d’infanzia (Lymph Matrix – Childhood Memory), 2007. Pencil, china ink and vegetal resin on Japanese paper.

lapdogchase:

u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

prüf of life

also i’m on the testosterone now and lemme tell ya…………..,………………..it’s nice