Moments in Time

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[skyeventide]

“The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars; the owl calls the watches in the towers of Afrasiab.”

— Mehmed the Conqueror, relaying the words of the Persian poet Saadi. These are the words he is said to have spoken after taking the city of Constantinople, and entering the ruins of the millennia-old Boukoleon Palace, known to the Ottomans and Persians as “the Palace of the Caesars”. Appropriate gravitas for observing the true death of classical civilization and the birth of the modern, gunpowder-stained era. (via wheelofhistory)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A puma rests on a rock where mountains meet the sea in the Chilean Patagonia. 2022.

(Photo: Nicolas Lagos /Panthera Nicolas Lagos)

[another2bohemians]

(via Alessandro Michele: Der Ex-Gucci-Designer zeigt uns sein faszinierendes Zuhause in Rom | Vogue Germany)

[mllxo]

Officially in my quiet era i don't have much to say about anything anymore it is what it is and life goes on

[tiktaalic]

looks at you with my huge brown eyes. let's touch a hot stove together. Ok?

[sweatermuppet]

oh cool it's decemeber! *grieves & grieves & grieves & grieves &*

[bakwaaas]

it’s both comforting and heartbreaking that over time you will slowly forget the little details of someone you once loved so deeply until their memory is just a hazy blur like a dream you once had and can’t quite remember anymore

[ashstfu]

a flock of birds flying slowly across the sky will always leave me hopeful

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, "From The Book of Time." Devotions

[kosmogrl]

[doradotcom]

you cant employ me in a way that matters

[fairycosmos]

if you walk down a street at night during winter and you see a window glowing with warm orange light well sometimes you burst into tears at the sight

[beguines]

People who have been away from God tend to come back by one of two ways: extreme lack or extreme love, an overmastering sorrow or a strangely disabling joy. Either the world is not enough for the hole that has opened in you, or it is too much. The two impulses are intimately related and it may be that the most authentic spiritual existence inheres in being able to perceive one state when you are squarely in the midst of the other. The mortal sorrow that shadows even the most intense joy. The immortal joy that can give even the darkest sorrow a fugitive gleam.

Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

[expensiveity]

God, i don’t want to be stagnant. in this same place next year. introduce me to me. help me to see myself the way that you see me. do whatever you need to do in my life that guides me closer to you. and my destiny. heal my heart so my triggers become my testimonies. add or remove whoever or whatever you need to help me grow spiritually. develop in me the character to not just reach the places we talk about but the character to stay in those places.

[zegalba]

Malia Jensen: Unmade Bed (2010) hand-carved from a bar of soap

[henk-heijmans]

A sense of solitude, Scotland, 2023 - by Fran Mart, Spanish

[ebrahimsharabash]

"You are in this world to build a place for you in heaven, do not forget that"