Good night, friends. ❄️

can't sleep, gonna pop online--oh what the fuck

—Waking Up Day 3 of 2026 —

Good Morning — To everyone who loves Taylor Swift 💫

—The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated. ~ Leo Tolstoy

An Eras Tour A Day - Keeps The Depths of Despair Away All Too Well Credit: Taylor Swift 💫

Who up wagging they dog

—Waking Up Day 3 of 2026 —

Cannot stress enough that there is no safe target, it's just normalization for when it happens to you. Dismissing abuse of rich white women guarantees abuse of more marginalized, less powerful women will be accepted. Ignoring abuse of more marginalized women paves the way to the top.

I think about this scene every day. I hope everyone gets this kind of love—

What's Love Got To Do With It by Tina Turner

“Vibrant Coastal Blooms” by Ukrainian artist Andrii Kutsachenko

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W.H. Auden

— ⭐️

save your heart for someone who treats you like you are the best thing that ever happened to them ~the deep thinker

Winter Sun. #Art 2020. © Candida Stevens

Poem for your Saturday 🤍 Instead of Depression ~ Andrea Gibson —try calling it hibernation./Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness/a place you go to heal/instead of a grave.

Michael Taylor

Look for the girl with the broken smile Ask her if she wants to stay a while And she will be loved And she will be loved ~ Maroon 5

Summer Afternoon by Lena Rivo

I can simply type “Is he dead yet?” and everyone knows who I’m talking about.

—Waking Up In 2026 —Can't repeat the past? —Why of course you can! ~F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Good night, friends. ⭐️

—And I would have stayed up with you all night - Had I known how to save a life 💙 youtu.be/cjVQ36NhbMk?...

—Breathing Jane Fisher - Art

Music is only love looking for words. ~ Lawrence Durrell

Veronica Lake

Come on now nothing says big dick energy like applying makeup to the back of your hand

Music is only love looking for words. ~ Lawrence Durrell

The Police

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Exploring the Depths by Josef Kote

Poem for your Friday ❄️ Burning the Old Year ~Naomi Shihab Nye —Where there was something and suddenly isn't, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space. I begin again with the smallest numbers. Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves, only the things I didn't do crackle after the blazing dies.

—Poets On A Friday

Happy 2026, Friends! No Matter What This Year Throws At Us —We Can Do This! 🤍

May we be able to create a world where all people are kind to each other.

Happy 2026, Friends! No Matter What This Year Throws At Us —We Can Do This! 🤍

This last year made us strong. In this new year, may we find happiness.

Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

"And who here is not buried in another person's heart?" ~ Richard Jackson, from "Filling in the Graves at a Cherokee Site," Heartwall (University of Massachusetts, 2000)

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

First Poem of 2026 🤍 All I Have Left ~ Kristina Mahr This is all I have left, this handful, this small bunch I won't give up. We drive through a light as it turns yellow, and you look over at me and smile. (It's one of the ones I keep.