ink and stars

[tomorrowcomesomedayblog]

Monique Manceau, Crète 1975

[demetrablog]

[pg-mag]

[ymutate]

Hiroo Isono (1945-2013)

[bobbole]

Nika Goltz, illustration for Fairy tales by Oscar Wilde

[musts]

© Mehmet Karaca

Chameleon’s tail

[nina-berry]

A cat makes its way through the corridor of the Girdle Wall of the Temple of Horus at Behdet.

or - Bastet pays Horus a visit.

[carlaeleni]

[wike-wabbits]

Snail fossil that has completely transformed into Opal

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Brown and Gold ~

[thevisualvamp]

Bijoux

[nature-travel-photography]

Great Sand Dunes National Park, at sunset on 9/18/21. OC. [800 x 1200] - Author: Syrah_volution on reddit

[thecrazycatladycorner]

[bebemoon]

“china discovers new moon mineral in lunar samples.” // “a close up of a crystal of a new lunar mineral called which has been named changesite-(y).” (image credit: beijing research institute of uranium geology)

[robert-hadley]

A Kashan Lustre Star Tile with an Arabian Camel, Persia, 13th Century

Source: Sotheby’s.com

[sabonhomeblog]

wheresbel.com

[amadryades]

“Two hundred and ten million years of desire wash through me. Blood-eater. Suppose I let it escape as seed shoots through the eyes of a dreaming god- would it frighten him away? Men know almost nothing about desire, they think is has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.”

— Anne Carson, The Anthropology of Water

[luxe-pauvre]

“Our brains contain approximately 100 billion neurons; each one of these is tied to other neurons by connections, the synapses. Each neuron has several thousand synapses. Hence each of us has in our head hundreds of thousands of billions of synapses. But it is not this number that determines the potential space for our thoughts. The space occupied by our thinking is (at the very least) the space of the possible combinations in which each synapse is active or not. And this number is two multiplied by itself not sixty-four times, as in the fable of the wise Persian, but hundreds of thousands of billions of times. The resulting number is stratospheric; to write it down you would need thousands of billions of digits, ‘so many, their number, more than the doubling on the squares’. Not even the most far-reaching quantifies the immensity of thinkable space, of which we have yet to explore more than an infinitesimal corner.”

— Carlo Rovelli, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness