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[Aelith Loves Art𖣂 @aelith4ever]

Two Laughing Girls. 1880, by Pere Borrell

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@crtdhwyx https://t.co/tHPE7zAm1g

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I said goodbye to an American family at eight o'clock.

I left at 9:40.

Nothing went wrong. Nobody stopped me. I stood up, I said thank you, and then a ritual began, and I did not know it was a ritual until I was already inside it.

The first goodbye happens sitting down. This one is false. You say "well" and then you do not move. I moved. That was my first error.

The second goodbye happens standing. There is new conversation here. Better conversation. The finest stories of the entire evening are told after everyone has agreed to leave.

They save their best material for the retreat. This is a nation that fights hardest on the way out the door.

The third goodbye happens at the door. The door is open. Cold air is entering the house and nobody acknowledges the cold air. A woman named Deb told me about her sister's kitchen for eleven minutes with a screen door tapping against her shoulder the entire time.

Then the porch. Then the driveway.

At the driveway the husband got involved. He had barely spoken at dinner. In the driveway he became a different man entirely and told me about a tree.

I don't remember anything about the tree. I remember that he was happy.

Then leftovers arrived. At the car. Which means someone went back inside and made a plate while I stood in the dark, and nobody asked that person to do it.

Nobody ordered that. The supply train left on its own.

I got in the car. I believed I had won. My window was down because it was warm out. That was my final error.

Deb remembered one more thing.

Here is what I have learned since. You do not say goodbye. You say "I should get going," which starts a clock nobody looks at. Then, some time later, the host says "well, I'll let you go."

That is the permission. Only the host can grant it. I had been trying to leave without it, like a man walking out of a castle without being dismissed.

I now announce that I should get going one hour before I intend to get going.

An American friend confirmed this is correct procedure.

He also told me his grandmother once said "I'll let you go" and then talked for twenty more minutes, and he wanted me to understand that this is not a failure of the system.

That is the system.

[BSF 🇬🇧🐀 @BSF42069]

We’ve come a long way

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

What a boring planet.... no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no werewolves… just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people.

[M Bleu @soymbleu]

Mamá fotografía todo. Porque mamá sabe que los días no vuelven, y que los detalles que hoy parecen pequeños mañana serán tesoros. Mamá fotografía todo, porque quiere recordar cómo fue amar así de fuerte.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

“The Kiss” is a 12,000-year-old rock painting discovered in Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil.

[Prometheus @CaribbeanRythms]

May my grave become a shelter for every creature of God that wanders in search of refuge and warmth.

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis, everyone is — in a sense — alone with God

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@kemimarie Yes please thank you!

[𝒶rα˚˖𓍢ִ໋ @yslmammi]

i love observing how moms, who are really happy to be moms, treat their children. like wow you lucky duckling, this woman loves you more than air. she’s been waiting for you. you’re everything to her. you’re going to have a great time on earth with her.

[Oğuz Pancar @opancaro]

Maarten Inghels, I Used To Be A Mountain

[N @dearvotion]

Babe wake up, Lenny Kravitz’s Architectural Digest feature of his Parisian townhouse just dropped!

[Spread Love and Kindness 🙏 @FashionweekNYC]

Exquisite Details from Paolo Sebastian 'A Lover's Kiss' Couture Fall 2024 Collection

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Grey wolf howls and gets response from the entire forest

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

“La Primavera” evening dress by Rosa Genoni, 1906. Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti.

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@CilComLFC Kate’s* mother and brother

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@CilComLFC The “lawyer” in her video are her mother Carole and brother James’s old photos