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[luthienne]

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)

[asnowyplover]

doing donuts in the riding mower

[sophsun1]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 2.19: I Only Have Eyes for You

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Jacob Löfgren - Storm over Sandhamn (1943)

[asnowyplover]

I want to grow my hair and get incredibly strong

[quotespile]

“Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.”

— Michel Houellebecq, Submission

[asnowyplover]

love exists everywhere like a river to be stepped into

[bobbycaputo]

Auroras Larger Than Earth Spotted Over Jupiter

[scienceetfiction]

And these hyper auroras never stop:

“Jupiter is able to generate its own lights,“ says Gladstone. The process begins with Jupiter’s spin: The giant planet turns on it axis once every 10 hours and drags its planetary magnetic field around with it. As any science hobbyist knows, spinning a magnet is a great way to generate a few volts—it’s the basic  principle of DC motors. Jupiter’s spin produces 10 million volts around its poles.“Jupiter’s polar regions are crackling with electricity,” says Gladstone,       “and this sets the stage for non-stop auroras.“The polar electric fields grab any charged particles they can  find and slam them into the atmosphere. Particles for slamming can come from the sun, but Jupiter has another, more abundant   source nearby: the volcanic moon Io, which spews oxygen and sulfur ions (O+ and S+) into Jupiter’s spinning magnetic field. “ (source: NASA)

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Théodore Gudin - Smugglers' cave in the moonlight (1866)

[miamaimania]

In a landscape of introspection, Sohlberg’s brush strokes carve out the quietude and solitude of Norwegian life in 1920. Each canvas is a conversation between light and shadow.

[soundcarvings]

in a large sense scarcity is a necessity for true happiness as it gives the human the ability to savor, to find beauty, meaning, etc. If my every desire is met then what is the point of living? I am thankful when I do not receive what I want, only so that I can sink deeply into presence when I do. I think that we must allow suffering to find us, we must sometimes accept lack, and know that it's all part of the rhythm too.

[asnowyplover]

last night of work over and done with. I don’t know what I’m feeling

[asnowyplover]

I have lately been getting sirred a lot at work by customers who are not senile and appear to see quite well 🥳

[asnowyplover]

I had a discussion / genial argument a few months ago with my cousin talking about the significance of suffering. I said a lot of people think suffering has no value, but would you want to spend time with someone who’s never suffered? Like with anything else, you make the choices in the circumstances youre given, but suffering is a portal to compassion if you allow it to open you instead of close you. She was of the opinion that some people seek out suffering in order to grant themselves legitimacy when there are others in the world facing worse things. Potentially a valid point but I couldn’t conceptualize it because she didn’t have examples. Now that I’m writing it out though, I do remember saying a similar thing about myself in my journal back in 2019, that I had to find a way to grant myself legitimacy because suffering would not save me or make me solid. I said maybe there’s an important semantic difference here between pain and suffering and we’re on the same page but talking about different things. She said she couldn’t imagine seeking out pain and discomfort for fun and I said oh I do that all the time, like that’s kind of exactly what wilderness backpacking is. And it’s because what awaits past the threshold of pain and discomfort is profoundly better and more soul-nourishing than perpetual comfort. This was a point she agreed on, as a black belt in karate who has studied it all her life, and it took us to her long term roommate, who has avoided discomfort for so long that it has fully inhibited her ability to feel self-respect or do much of anything. And I said to be honest, living that way, in that kind of fear and avoidance, is the true hell for me. Like that’s a much worse suffering than anything that could be inflicted on me externally. All you really own is yourself and your courage and your optimism and willingness to try. We didn’t come away with any solid answers but it was really an interesting chat and I’m still thinking about it

[asnowyplover]

went for a massive hike yesterday I’ve been wanting to do forever, got up at 5am for it, trekked up a mountain and back, 7.2 miles, got Greek food and an ice cold lime jarritos with my friends then drove out to another town because I was craving a mangonada, came home and passed out for an hour, writing group.

[asnowyplover]

I’m losing steam on this dating thing