Danielle Bean

𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚏𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢.

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eventually I came to paint
the shadows of things

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Swatching a new palette. 🎨 ♥️

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aquamarine, naples yellow,
umber,
viridian,
and pearl.

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Undersea Green by Daniel Smith
swatched in an onion skin journal

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Finally.

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“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-Reliance” (1841)

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Sinking into a fresh Zola with my emotional support fossil. 📚 ♡

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@cyberkht To you as well 🌿

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the tiniest path taken 🦎 ♡

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A rainy, leafy walk with my autumn bestie 🍂 ♡

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Autumn Leaf № 2

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[autumn leaf in progress]

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“That is the sort of person you’ll find I am: trustworthy, honourable, noble and poised. Not, to be sure, immune to death, age or disease, like God, but still prepared to die and face illness with a godlike dignity.”

Epictetus
[tr. Robert Dobbin]

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Autumn Leaf № 1

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It’s that time of year 🍂

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🩵

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“Why do I strive, why do I toil in this narrow, confined frame, when life, all life with all its joys, is open to me?”

Tolstoy
𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒
tr. Maude

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Revisiting this as an adult. 📚♥️

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(ir)reparable

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—still making rose trees from fallen storm branches ♡

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“[O]ne must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. I’m alive; that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I can, without hurting others.”

Tolstoy
𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒
tr. Maude