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artworks by hugo grenville

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i don’t make the rules, my brain does and unfortunately that bitch is chemically imbalanced

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Mandarin with Chinese Plate   -   Cressida Campbell, 2004.

Australian b.1960-

woodblock print, unique state, 17.0 x 19.5 cm     6 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.

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“ Nature Walk    ”

Photo by Ishikoro. Japan.

Love & Peace!

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something I very much needed to read today

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Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

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I have a terrible habit of leaving things unsaid for the sake of peace

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It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

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Source

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer