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juniper / 29 / she/they

[butterflypeaflowertea]

gardens in art 💐

jardin benlliure by jose benlliure gil / mission san juan capistrano by gustave baumann / glorieta al atardecer by santiago rusiñol / jardín by eliseo meifren i roig / milton park by cressida campbell  / kiki’s delivery service by studio ghibli

[sedraboc]

[waandering]

[gettingintoknives]

Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses

[the-golden-onion]

So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.

Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie Brandon, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.

This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡

[themutator]

[floralls]

by Seiji Enokido

[gerrycanavan]

we lived happily during the war

[secretrussianfolder]

[qmr-deactivated20170731]

Azerbaijani painter writes Quran on transparent silk pages

Azerbaijani painter and decorative artist Tünzale Memmedzade has transcribed the Quran onto transparent silk pages. Memmedzade, a 33-year-old artist, used 50 meters of transparent black silk, and 1,500 milliliters of gold and silver inks in the project, which has taken three years to complete. (read more) 

Mashallah, how incredibly beautiful. 

[jbeckham44]

A picture can’t convey how huge this waterfall in the Canadian Rockies is [OC] [3840x2560] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/2qXhbd4

[filmnoirsbian]

A conversation w/ a snared fox at the edge of the field

[boohwanj-deactivated20240316-de]

2019-03-10

[karazrel]

robert pattinson singlehandedly destroying every single joker before he’s even put the suit on

[dean-colette-deactivated2026050]

“WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.”

— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (via almost-always-eventually-right)

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

landscape with a blur of conquerors, richard siken

[californiajuniper]

i was going to go to the library in town to get out of the house during the power outages, but now half of the family is home sick and need to be taken care of.