Gold foil illustration of stars

Montage of Attractions

Finding Shelter in the Presence of Others
a cluster of hands with a person

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich – The Painted Drum

On Tenderhooks

Falesia

Fensiveness

Querinous

Fata Organa

Skidding

Amoransia

Etherness

Feresy

Immerensis

Drisson

La Gaudière

The Mcfly Effect

Anderance

Lilo

Lookaback

Fardle-Din

Incidental Contact High

Treachery Of The Common

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Elsewise

Typifice

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Zverism

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark