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Yaks at night By: Bruce Coleman, Ltd. From: Encyclopedia of the Animal World: Large Plant-Eaters 1988

Happy Palm Sunday, and special thanks to the most patient and humble beast of burden, who alone was worthy to carry our Lord into Jerusalem.

#palm sunday #christianity #faith #religion #poetry #poem #literature #gk chesterton #easter

A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

#d h lawrence

TVCC fire, Beijing. (2009)

Greek mythology contains the personification of fate by means of three sisters, the Moirai - Clotho, who spins the thread of life onto her spindle; Lachesis, who measures and allots a length of thread for each person; and Atropos, the inevitable, who cuts the thread in the final moment of a person's life. What is most interesting is that fate here has complete command over all beings, both mortal and divine. In the Illiad, Zeus grieves because his son Sarpedon is fated to die by the hand of Patroclus. Though he may be a god, and chief of the pantheon, his power is not absolute, he can do nothing, because it is fate that is absolute, and the sanction that fate places on life is immutable, unalterable, and final. All must come to terms with who they are, with what their allotment is. What can at all be called the "pain of existence" can be distilled into the fact that you do not know yourself.

#photography #faith #fire #beijing #mere-life

Church of Prophet Elias. Amorgos, Greece.

My current posting location.

#church #greece #orthodox christianity #christianity #photography #religion

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wind and gray sea

salt creek campground, olympic peninsula, wa

canon ae-1 / portra 400

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Roger Schall.

Le Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, Paris 1930

#i love windmills

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Jumy-M Sand Dunes / ５月の砂丘 #18

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Monk's House, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Sussex retreat. The World of Interiors, June 2012. Photo - Caroline Arber

This is the relationship of Hercules and Iolaus, Theseus and Pirithous, Orestes and Pylades, Idomeneus and Meriones, Diomedes and Sthenelus or Odysseus. The essentially male friendship is that of an exiled emperor surrounded by his loyalists, which is to say it's crucial to understand it without finding any pretense of romance.

#poetry #friends #antiquity #ancient greece #battle of salamis #frendship #classicism #poem #literature

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Photographed by Robert Frank

#me #this is me

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apocalipsis buenos aires.

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Ellen Tucker, first wife of great American philosopher R. W. Emerson.

Ellen married Emerson at age 18; she died at age 20 from tuberculosis, which ailed her all her life. A famous story of Emerson is that a year after Ellen's death, he opened her tomb to see her corpse.

The false explanation often accompanying this anecdote is that Emerson could not believe she was dead, when in fact he was so certain precisely of this that he felt compelled to at least keep the memory of Ellen alive. And it would certainly cheapen love to construe it as essentially a delirium, when its merit lies in the fact that it always becomes an unprofitable toil. I am reminded of Rochefoucauld's words that there are some who would never have loved if they had not heard or read about it somewhere.