It Was Sunsets That Taught Me That Beauty Sometimes Only Lasts For A Couple Of Moments, And It Was Sunrises

“You should know, if you never open up you’re never going to heal.”

— Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

For what it's worth... it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

O que es mentira.

Cierto

Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “See”

[Text ID: “How rare to see someone and feel. / How rare to see someone and know / you are not alone, / for your eyes are theirs, / your pain, too. / How rare to truly see someone.”]

Moonlight, Winter

Rockwell Kent

The heart, after agreeing with the brain to feel no more, falls to it's old habit, anyways.

The heart does not fear, but only wants --

the brain wants, too, but also knows --

When a good thing comes it will not last.

And so the heart saturates itself, in this, while the brain prepares, happy and sad in it's bitter sweet, weary of the ends that are to come --

shoring up its defenses for the time when a swelling heart grows too big, the dam eventually breaks,

and the plains of my soul will drown in anguish --

V. Rue, 2025.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

C.G. Jung

It's hard not to feel as though God is only near to us on our good days, but I can assure you that He is holding you tight in the middle of your storm. He is listening carefully to your quiet whispers of fear in the dead of the night. 💛

color study: lavender blue by Ezra Leary