I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

“A slender teenage girl clutching a posy of silk violets is peering out of a daguerreotype with neatly parted hair and a velvet neck ribbon, the hazel of her eyes and the fire of her hair obscured in black and white. There is no inkling in her broad brow that she would become one of the world’s most prolific, inventive, and mysterious poets, her image fixed in posterity’s eyes by this sole authenticated photograph of her sixteen-year-old self—a crocus pressed between the pages of time.” -Maria Popova, “17 – From Terror to Transcendence,” Figuring

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Happy Friday (if you celebrate). I hope we have a lovely, relaxing, beauty-filled weekend.