i'm back...and married!

photo by Friedrich Seidenstücker, found via theshinxandthemilkyway

Photo: Sophie Calle, I Died in a Good Mood, 2013

Katherine Litz in the Dining Hall taken by Hazel Larsen Archer

(found here)

(image found here)

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” 

― Terry Pratchett

totally functional....

(found via goldlionaz)

(found here)

Image by Eugène Druet
 “Loïe Fuller dansant.”

Natural Judgement

"When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn't get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don't get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying 'You are too this, or I'm too this.' That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." 

-- Ram Dass.

(Photographs by Nicolò Minerbi)

Jean Renaud dancing on a paris rooftop, 1950

(found via apieceapart)

(Found here)

"You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem."

--Helen Vendler 

(Image: Oko Dancing, 2013 by Jordan Sullivan)

Rio Jardim Botanico by Marcelo Gomes from artbookstand

“The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.”

 -- Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies

(Image by Amy Friend from her Dare alla Lucce series. Can be purchased from Citizen Atelier.)

step back.

There is a transformative power in seeing the familiar from a new, more distant perspective.

 Chose to step back sometimes.

a man stands
on his
head one
minute—

then he
sit
down all
different

—Aram Saroyan.

(Art: Hossein Zare.)

just an amateur

From Peter J. Cohen's collection of vernacular photographs at MoMA