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— Mary Oliver, "What I Have Learned So Far"

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Ikebana special feature to celebrate @manifestomedia 10th anniversary issue - so delighted to be part of this project 🌷

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I’m fond of flowers. Through the process of flower arrangements, I’m able to internalise and feel a spectrum of emotions. I enjoy my alone time; it’s independent work from start to finish. It’s like a therapy session over the course of the process, and not only has it helped me understand my personality and interests better, but it has also cultivated my sense of shapes and colours. I’d love to explore all the possible angles of capturing flowers – it’s almost like another interpretation of a model’s posture and the way a body takes shape during a shoot. Another aspect of flowers that I associate with is that the Chinese word for it is pronounced as “hua” which is part of my name. “Hua” also means flowers in The Book of Songs. I guess it’s fate that I embrace flowers as part of my life.

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true or false

tattle like it's complex

or so simplistic

it depends on who you are

half who i pretend you are

and the rest who you really are

i am all that you think i am

you'd think i could rewrite

me

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sappy - nirvana

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Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt in Granada, Spain (1999)

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I talked to you on the phone. Tried to joke. Don’t worry about me, I said, I have the quail for company. Well, they took flight when I opened the door. A week later and they still haven’t come back. When I look at the silent telephone I think of quail. When I think of the quail and how they went away, I remember talking to you that morning and how the receiver lay in my hand. My heart— the blurred things it was doing at the time.

— Raymond Carver, from “Away,” in All Of Us: Collected Poems

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Alice Notley, from In the Pines

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…because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.

Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (via luthienne)