moment of surrender

“Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light.”

[catgront]

[purestsolitude-deactivated20180]

I knew my mother left home to escape all that, so that no daughter of hers would ever become a child with a child, for any daughter of hers was to do more than just survive – as my mother had – she was to thrive…

Zadie Smith, Swing Time (p. 22)

[grace--upon--grace]

[saru-studies]

Today I’ve learnt that there’s a word in italian (”solare”) to describe a person who brights the room, who is warm and good and cheerful and worries about others and I think is so cute??? I love it

[thoodleoo]

problems with millennials

they’re all following this jesus nonsense instead of the old roman religion

they only know what it’s like under the empire and not the glory of the res publica

all of them want to follow weird greek fashions like writing poetry and growing beards instead of following the mos maiorum and wearing togas

they’re all so used to this cushy “pax romana” nonsense that none of them want to conquer anything like their ancestors did, and they probably don’t even remember carthage

they have no idea what it was like living before the common era

have any of them ever risen up on their own to depose a king or stab a tyrant? i think not

[sobforsirius]

v&a // ig: kristinelizabeths 

[luxe-pauvre]

[occultclassicalbright]

Light Study II after van Huijsum, details (Full v.)

[mikeseehagel]

If I were to use one word to describe Roman architecture, it wouldn’t be “subtle.” (at Rome, Italy)

[m-l-rio]

Sonnet for President Trump

Shall I compare thee to a Shakespeare play? Thou art less clever and less literate, But how else should poor poets have their say? Alas, our leader lacks a donkey’s wit! Sometime too fierce the fire of ego burns, And when a man is made to look a fool, He rages ’gainst the mockery he earns, As little boys will cry when teas’d at school. But thy eternal tantrums shall not wane, Nor shalt thou e’er unclench thy tiny fists, Nor listen when the people dare to say, “’Tis you, dear sir, who made a scene of this.”         So long as men can breathe and speech is free,         The Bard shall speak and show thy shame to thee.

(4 July 2017, in honor and defense of freedom of artistic expression)

[midnight-charm]

Valentino Haute Couture Fall / Winter 2017

[petrichorals]

You can preach self-love and acceptance all you want, but I would not have been able to transform myself into the person I am today without despising my past self.

[cinemagraphs]

Paris mornings

[mesogeios]

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.

Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (via mesogeios)

[forlikeminded]

Oscar de la Renta | New York Fashion Week | Spring 2017

[felicedellarovere]

santa maria maggiore, 2.18.17

[hungerorsuperabundance-deactiva]

The exchange and evaluation of ideas is our greatest mechanism for individual and collective development. The freedom to think and express oneself permits opportunities for the truth to surface and prevail in one’s life. Exchanging ideas with others is also therapeutic, as it provides an outlet for thoughts causing internal dissonance. Individuals who exchange ideas are more dynamic; their minds are breeding grounds for new ideas, innovations, and introspection. By repeatedly engaging with other ideas, we refine our own thought process and allow ourselves to fully reach our truest potential.

Kyle Emile, Free Intelligent Conversation Manifesto (via the-rose-alchemist)