Dreamy Mood In The Paintings By Henri Le Sidaner (French, 1862-1939)

Enfin Seule! (Finally Alone) by Jean-Louis Forain in Le Courrier Français, ca. 1890

Dreamy mood in the paintings by Henri Le Sidaner (French, 1862-1939)

I need more fairy teacups in my life

Kazu Saitou (Japanese, born 1960)

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I don’t get those ‘I don’t do small talk’ mfs. sorry I don’t wanna discuss my deepest darkest secrets or listen to your trauma dump after 0.5 seconds of knowing you. it’s like people wanna speed run the journey from stranger to emotional intimacy and understanding but human connection doesn’t work like that it takes time, and if anything these sort of interactions just create a false sense of closeness with someone who doesn’t actually know or care about you

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

By Yizheng - Ke

Kaoru Yamada

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