Charlotte “Lotte” Vale
@espressoprose.bsky.social
A place where words meet wonder. I write a little, read a little more, and drink a lot of coffee—fueling musings on life, stories, and everything in between. Sip, dream, and linger awhile. All photos and writings are my own unless I state otherwise.
Some walls do not crumble all at once. They surrender to history one season at a time. The roof was taken by war. The silence arrived later. The world calls them broken. The stones call themselves witnesses. #AugustGothicPrompt #writing #windows #photography #hamburg
Anxiety is an impatient storyteller. It takes an ordinary silence and gives it a tragic ending before the next chapter has even been written. Love, I am learning, asks something different of me. It asks me to wait for the truth before I believe the story. #writing #love #bloomscroll #photography
My heart confuses one doorway for another The house will fill again The quiet will change Familiarity will return And my heart wants to be across the ocean No wonder it is restless It is trying to understand how much room there is for everything I feel I don’t have to answer tonight
The Seattle Mariners are now wearing Jimothy shirts in batting practice before games
We spend our lives leaving little landmarks of affection in each other’s worlds, often without realizing we’re doing it. A landmark doesn’t demand attention. It simply exists. You don’t have to visit it every day. That’s how genuine affection often feels. Not dramatic. Orienting. #writing
Okay… just came across “tillythefriendlyloaf” it’s a doggo version of jimothy 🥰 #hotSummerJimothy #doggoversion
Love is not only revealed in the moments we are invited into someone’s joy. Sometimes it is revealed in the ordinary faithfulness of waiting beside the hard days, asking for nothing except that tomorrow might be gentler. #love
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
To celebrate Hot Jimothy Summer, I am also going to eat trash and become round. Finally, a goal I can achieve. #hotJimothySummer #jimothy
More Jimothy is what we all need 😍😍
Cloudy🐈@hellocloudy.bsky.social · 3w agojumping on the jimothy train
The most enduring relationships are rarely built in emotional sprints. They’re built in hundreds of ordinary mornings. One person saying, “I hope your coffee is good.” Those little threads become a tapestry. So, today, let it be one thread. Not the whole tapestry. ♥️ #relationship #endure
My newest quest: will be camping out in Ballard hoping for a Jimothy sighting. #summer #shenanigans
The Needling@theneedling.com · 3w agoWhole Nation Misses President’s Speech Because Jimothy: tinyurl.com/2tp3na55
The door is mine. The key is mine. And that is what makes opening it sacred. I do not open because I am empty and searching for someone to complete me. I open because I am whole, and I choose to share the mystery of that wholeness with another.
A thunderstorm in Seattle. So rare the city seems to pause and listen. A busy café. A delightful, colorful cup. These are the days I love this city… the days I wish I could slow time and simply live inside the moment. Me and my beloved coffee.
Thought for the day: All plants are edible. Some, just once.
There are days when the distance between where I am and where I ache to be feels impossibly wide Coffee Wool Quiet Busy hands to keep sorrow from settling Perhaps this is how we survive not by outrunning longing but by weaving tenderness through it until the heart can bear the waiting #longing
The night will not cool its breath clings to my skin like regret and I lie unmade pressed beneath a ceiling too low for dreams too near to thought I am undone by ordinary devastations small violences of being passed over unheard in the places where I gave everything I had