Idyll By The Fountain (Alexander Rothaug, 1870 - 1946)

-It’s not the red of which we bleed- 

  watercolour on paper, 2019

@xwristitlo

I want to go back to the beginning. We all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. But I’m wrong.

Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved

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)

Devin Leonardi (American, 1981-2014) - Manassas Junction, 2009

by Letolatte

Series by Erik Kwakkel: The Beauty of the Injured Book, from medieval manuscripts in the Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek collection:

Bad Back: 15th century

Sliced: c. 1100

Scar Tissue: c. 1000

Touched by a Human: 12th century

Mouldy skin: 11th century

cursed land

John Sloan - Turning out the Light (1905)

so much of me to return to