“There are some people who have sun inside them.
It's hard to explain.
Their presence just brightens, it's not about their beautiful smiles.
They have an internal being that sheds light and feels like sun.
It's a calm energy. Inner peace.
But most importantly; it's not wanting anything back in return.
It's sun.”
— Unknown
[ Artist • Ana Novaes ] 
“There are some people who have sun inside them.
It's hard to explain.
Their presence just brightens, it's not about their beautiful smiles.
They have an internal being that sheds light and feels like sun.
It's a calm energy. Inner peace.
But most importantly; it's not wanting anything back in return.
It's sun.”
— Unknown
[ Artist • Ana Novaes ] 
"The most difficult people to be loved, are the most in need of love." - Kristen Stewart 
After tragedies, one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. It’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it; it doesn’t work that way. You have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. It’s a territorial hope affair. At the time, that digging is utopian, but in the future, it will become your reality.
~Björk
[Art: Sofia Bonati] 
“I hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child & fell asleep on the couch during a family party. I hope you can hear the laughter from the next room.” - unknown 
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“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotten beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don't wish me happiness, for I no longer expect it to be a constant companion. Life has taught me that happiness comes and goes, like waves on a shore. Instead, wish me courage to face life's challenges, strength to endure its trials, and a sense of humor to keep me light in dark moments.
These are the tools I will need most as I navigate the unpredictable journey ahead. Happiness will find its way back, but courage and resilience will carry me through. 
When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,
and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.
— D.H. Lawrence 
“In the end, we are all alone, surrounded by people who may never understand us. Our deepest fears and most profound desires remain hidden from the world, locked away in the recesses of our own minds. We long for connection, but in the quiet moments of introspection, we come to realize that true understanding is a rare and fleeting thing, often just out of reach.” — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse* 
WOW crazy aurora the past few nights over Malangen, Norway 🤩 
Land of the Free 
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. ~James Baldwin
(Book: Nothing Personal https://amzn.to/47tOp3E [ad])
(Art: Photograph of Baldwin by Anthony Barboza) 
When nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? ~Milan Kundera
(Book: The Unbearable Lightness of Being https://amzn.to/4goOXMg [ad])
(Art: Photograph of artist Georgia O'Keeffe by John Loengard) 
We must be willing to get rid of
the life we've planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.
Hell is life drying up.
The Hoarder,
the one in us that wants to keep,
to hold on, must be killed.
If we are hanging onto the form now,
we’re not going to have the form next.
You can’t make an omelet
without breaking eggs.
Destruction before creation. ~Joseph Campbell
(Book: Reflections on the Art of Living https://amzn.to/3XKofGH [ad]) 
the full moon watching everyone act crazy & getting blamed for it 
A red sun foggy morning. Emmett Michigan 
A big flex is being lowkey.
Nobody knows what’s going on in my life, where I'm at, who I'm with, or what my next move is unless make it known. Privacy is peace. 