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B R U S S E L S

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“Sit there in your ugly and revel in it. Be the ugliest thing in the room so what. You are still in the room. Look, there you are. Filling all this empty space. Good for you, thirsty little beast. Make everyone stare at this travesty of a body you endure. It’s the least they can do.”

— A Manifesto, Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)

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Beautiful Dutch style architecture in the streets of Oranjestad, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles.

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By the sea in Tulum, Mexico

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A Window into Winter: Caribou-Targhee National Forest

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, January 2024

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But she hadn't said either of those things. What she said instead was neither condemnation nor absolution. It was just this: You have to claim responsibility for the harm you cause. You have to believe it's necessary.

from "A New Life" by Leslie Jamison

#leslie jamison #a new life #splinters

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1924 "Boul Mich" by the Elevated Lines poster illustrating Michigan Avenue, Chicago by Rocco Navigato. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

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Dead Sea, Palestine under the Moon

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nev.in.color

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Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.

from "October" by Mary Oliver

#october #mary oliver

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Webb walked me outside onto the front porch. It was dusk, and the fringes of the sky had darkened. The town and the street were empty, and beyond them the prairie, too. 'This land is saturated with blood,' Webb said. For a moment, she fell silent, and we could hear the leaves of the blackjacks rattling restlessly in the wind. Then she repeated what God told Cain after he killed Abel: 'The blood cries out from the ground.'

From Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

#killers of the flower moon #david grann

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Bridges of Sacramento County.

Winding along the levees and over the bridges of the delta is always an interested way to get between Sacramento and the bay area. A different (below sea-level) world out there.

Courtland, California

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Going back to Berkeley always feels like Stevie returning to The Velvet Underground.

The sun sets on another day, another semester, another class year. To our graduates whose time on campus is coming to an end, remember that you will always be Golden Bears. Fiat lux and go bears! #ucberkeley #sathertower #campanile #myucberkeley by @abi_speers. (at UC Berkeley)

#ucberkeley

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jess

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There were many ways to keep knowledge from yourself, to not think too hard about things you didn't want to confirm.

from The Guest by Emma Cline

#the guest #emma cline

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Lizzy McAlpine...we’re gonna be in our feelings about this one for a while…