“When you nurture the ability to witness your life in the third person, in extremis, or through prayer or meditation, there is an unavoidable shift in consciousness as you realize that who you are is not simply how you feel—but a presence beyond desire of any sort. Intense emotions that have held us prisoner all our lives suddenly lose power, are uncloaked as tricks of memory, exposed as tireless, groping sensations whose function is to keep us distracted by the body’s appetites until the body is no more.”
— Simon Van Booy, from The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)
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getting ur nipples sucked a different type of love language
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Details of a golden sea, part II : Sunset at sea, by Diyarbakirli Tahsin (1875–1937)
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woodcut prints by bryan nash gill
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Quenlin Blackwell for I Am Gia
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everything speaks to me bc I’m always listening
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