Astronomically Infinitesimal

Millennial. She/Her. I need a moment to collect my thoughts. Thank you for understanding.

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A Summer Afternoon

1882

R. Way Smith

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Beach Scene

circa 1865-1867

Eugéne Boudin

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Capri

circa 1845

Jean Achille Benouville

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

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A View of Naples through a Window

1824

Franz Ludwig Catel

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

[petaltexturedskies]

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

[vintage-tigre]

Kurt Vonnegut with his dog, Pumpkin.

"And how should we behave during this Apocalypse?

We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious.

Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one."

Kurt Vonnegut - The Idea Killers, 1984.

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Day Dress

c. 1855

White silk and wool mixed organdy with print; double-tiered skirt with border pattern; pagoda sleeves with fringe.

England

The Kyoto Costume Institute

[eldritchbauble]

Tomorrow is a new beginning. It doesn't matter if it's arbitrary because the labels we give to the passage of time are a meaningless construct. You decide the meaning. If you've been stumbling it's time to get back up now.

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

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A Masque for the Four Seasons - Walter Crane

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Haverstraw Bay

1868

Sanford Robinson Gifford

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

[cesaray]

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”

— A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

[oldpaintings]

La Parisienne Japonaise, 1872 by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)

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[theliteraryjournals]

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

— Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

[peaceinthestorm]

Herman H. Wessel (1878-1969, American) ~ A Summer Afternoon, 1924

[Source: cincinnatiartmuseum.org]

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Gardener's House at Antibes

1888

Claude Monet

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.