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Vasily Khudyakov, An autumn evening.

Sally Swatland, Island Garden

“ How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard “ 🩵🩵

If someone tells me one more time "Enjoy your youth" I'm gonna cry.

Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. -Doris Lessing

"I shouldn't have written to you tonight , by the way , and I'll take this letter back in the morning . But I felt a heart so full of memories and desires , so agitated by you , that I had to talk to you a little , as I would like to do , lips to lips , sometimes detaching myself to look at your wonderful face of consent . Ah , my darling , how I need only one sign from you to live . " —Albert Camus to Maria Casarès , Correspondance , September 10-11 , 1949

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person beguiled, enchanted, - Mary Ellen Chase