“The Privilege Of A Lifetime Is To Become Who You Truly Are.”

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

A Palestinian couple breaks their fast on the beach in Gaza City during Ramadan. Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty

I love him in the way you love a lighthouse

From a distance

Not expecting warmth

But grateful for the shape of his light

I wrote him into my days

The echo of a soul lesson coming back around

I will meet him in the Center of a life

I already started to build without him

2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992

1. Flame Nebula / 2. Orion Nebula

“The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through April of each year.” 🌌 WISE, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)