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DAILY AFFIRMATIONS

I WILL NOT MAKE PURCHASES ON IMPULSE

I WILL REPAY ALL MY DEBTS

MY LIFE IS NOT OVER

I WILL EAT OATS AND FRUITS

I DON'T CARE WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE IN MY LIFE ARE DOING NOW

“Thick dome of jasmine/Under the dense canopy where the white jasmine/Blends with the rose …/Come, let us drift down together.”

— excerpt from ‘The Flower Duet’, in Léo Delibes’ Lakmé, as quoted in Zadie Smith’s “Anomalisa”, Feel Free: Essays

In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 (2000) dir. Wong Kar Wai

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, dir. Jonas Mekas, 2000.

Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, México

thought of god, teared up

you just need to be sincere in your work. passionately sincere. people will be able to sniff out if you're not. sincerity requires hard work, honesty, and a fearless searching which will begin to come naturally as you hone in on the feeling itself

the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then

‘heat stroke’ photo by wintam and styling by shawngao for gq china june 2024

the pope can't stop saying faggot the president of the united states has dementia and is being maneuvered like a puppet the king of england is attempting to cure his cancer with coffee enemas. save for the few anachronisms this reads exactly like a medieval history paragraph

hot as fuck outside summer is so back

judy managing to paint her nails, smoke a cigarette and drink a coke all at once while watching a mel gibson movie is such a slay i love her so much

the secret history but its judys pov in the form of diary entries about richard and his weird friends

Dawg how are you 22 with a wife and kids you should be outside playing

Sharon Tate photographed in London, 1966

(Sequel to ‘This memory is being forgotten’)

basic human decency !!!!!!! Empathy and compassion !!!!!! Very sexy concepts !!!!!!

there is nothing rarer and more beautiful than liking every song on an album