I Have The Biggest Dick In 40 Square Miles

being human is terrifying

“I took comfort in the illusion that I could go back [to my hometown]. But I’d been around long enough to know history is sealed and unchangeable. You can move on, with a heart stronger in the places it’s been broken, create new love. You can hammer pain and trauma into a righteous sword and use it in defense of life, love, human grace and God’s blessing. But nobody gets a do-over. Nobody gets to go back and there’s only one road out. Ahead, into the dark.”

— Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (via readingcities)

Still Life with Candle   -   Unknown

Oil on canvas

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

Children, like adults, were caught up in war fever after hostilities broke out in August 1914. Many wanted to join the Army, including nine-year-old Alfie Knight from Dublin. Alfie wrote this letter to Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, volunteering as a front-line despatch rider. In a reply sent by his private secretary, Lord Kitchener thanked Alfie for his offer, but explained that he was 'not yet quite old enough to go to the front'. 

You didn't notice, but you grew up.

there is soooo much beauty in being a good person 

will-o’-the-wisp   -   Mia Bergeron , 2021.

American, b. 1979 -  

Oil and wax on panel ,  36 x 54 in.      

A Knight and His Lady by by Andy Thomas