May 24th, 2013
“My mother boils seawater. It sits all afternoon simmering on the stovetop, almost two gallons in a big soup pot. The windows steam up and the house smells like a storm. In the evening, a crust of salt is all that’s left at the bottom of the pot. My mother scrapes it out with a spoon. We each lick a fingertip and dip them in the salt and it’s softer than you’d think, less like sand and more like snow. We lay our fingertips on our tongues, right in the middle. It tastes like salt but like something else, too—wide, and dark. It tastes like drowning, or like falling asleep on the shore and only waking up when the tide has come up to your feet and you wonder if you’d gone on sleeping, would you have sunk?”

The Alchemy: Salt from Water

(Source: luminoussea)

Marie Bovo - Interior Courtyards (2008-9)

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

Addiction is tricky. For example: a man who quit smoking for 11 years spent 15 seconds in an elevator with a man smoking a cigarette. He gave in.
What I’m trying to say is I think I love you again.

(Source: alienveins, via debilitating)

(Source: vonmunsterr, via c0caino)

May 23rd, 2013
your journey has molded you for the greater good,
and it was exactly what it needed to be.
don’t think that you’ve lost time.
it took each and every situation you have encountered
to bring you to the now.
and now is right on time.
~ asha tyson