“Note To Self: You’ve Gotta Do This For You. This Is For You. This Isn’t About Anybody. Live For

ray at 14 by Dorianne Laux

“I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life. I’ve thought too much about what people will say or what they’re gonna think. And sometimes it’s over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn’t good enough. But you don’t have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don’t have to.”

— Julie Murphy, Dumplin’

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

father by Matthew Dickman

reflections about summer

A Separate Peace, John Knowles / Stand by Me dir. Rob Reiner / Why are you haunted?, filmnoirsbian

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

— Unknown

Joy Sullivan, “Tomatoes”, Instructions for Traveling West

Safia Elhillo, from Spring