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Yamagata, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

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Secret caves

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"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

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Weeping plum blossoms at Yusho-ji Temple // 花景色

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Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.

James Baldwin  This morning, this evening, so soon  

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Wild horses crossing a river in Iran Photo: Eydi Heydari

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Bahia, Brazil. Lane Marinho

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Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbir Totoro (1988) The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

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実光院・夏の花々// Jikkoin Temple

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Mist and rays of light on the Enbara River // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

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healing involves a lot more grieving than you’d expect. progress hurts. you’re moving on from things that happened but also things you wished would happen and never did. mourning does not mean you are not getting better.

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backwards roller skating 🤍🪞

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sunset listens

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Saturday Souq

Casablanca, Morocco

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京都 慈受院門跡 // Jiju-in Temple, Kyoto 🌿

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癒しの自然風景