Distilled-Prose

Formerly Designs Mining & Lapidary and/or Muses-Sirens-Editors. Male.  Married. Retired. Former healthcare executive. Current gemstone miner and lapidary artist. Part time motorcycle mechanic. Some time poet.  Original work will ultimately be found @Muses-Sirens-Editors

[tridentandtales]

Roman ring, made from gold and aquamarine depicting a woman riding on a hippocamp

1st century AD

Altes Museum Berlin 30891 C

[dru1968]

[juan-francisco-palencia]

Someone who truly loves us. They feel and hold onto any emotion that may still arise, how sad and melancholic it can be, and how difficult it can be to understand and show it, but even though it seems impossible, they will try again and again, waiting for the right moment to make you feel how much they remember you and that they will continue to love you.

𝐽​𝑢​𝑎​𝑛​ ​𝐹​𝑟​𝑎​𝑛​𝑐​𝑖​𝑠​𝑐​𝑜​ ​𝑃​𝑎​𝑙​𝑒​𝑛​𝑐​𝑖​𝑎​.​

[tgvqaz]

(my Thanks to the: @brix2build blog)

[oldjewelryfeed]

Art Nouveau Floral Enamel Pearl and Diamond 18k Gold Brooch Pendant

[thevisualvamp]

The detail

[jordinaryguy]

For the crab lover in you!

[misterlemonzlime]

misterlemonzlime.tumblr.com/archive

[missedstations]

“Warning!” - Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people’s gardens And learn to spit. You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practise a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

[sedehaven]

My Sweet Sixteen

I know a million things -- the atomic

weight of mercury, how to diagram

sentences, the right club to use to

get out of the rough. I don't know

people (unless they live in a book.)

There's a picture of me weeping --

snot-faced, wracking sobs -- under

a pink glittery banner for my sweet

sixteen. A cake shaped like a

hamburger at my elbow, a cake

that would never be shared.

I know the different cuts of diamonds,

the proper tilt and temperature of a

milk bottle for a baby kitten, how to

find my way by the stars. I don't know

why people evaporate like raindrops

on a hot car, why need will scatter them

like marbles through open fingers.

[paper-wounds]

[distilled-prose]

oh, my...

[1five1two]

'The Poet's Dream'. John Faed. c. 1883.

[1five1two]

An Art Deco Silvered Metal and Intaglio glass Table Lamp. Germany. c. 1930.

[1five1two]

[1five1two]

Jennie Harbour. 1893-1959.

[1five1two]

Kazuhiko Sano. 1952-2011.

[madeyoulaughgifs]

Play friends

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[sakurabreeze]

Moonlight, Alphonse Mucha

[demeter1111]

@distilled-prose

[distilled-prose]

thanks for this, @demeter1111 ! I don't think I've ever seen this one!!!

[karenpillagain]

The periodic table consists of 118 elements, each represented by a unique symbol. These elements are the building blocks of matter, with diverse properties that form the foundation of chemistry and science as a whole

[distilled-prose]

for those of you not really into rockhounding, you have to understand that examining rocks while in the great outdoors, you may want to see what the material looks like if it were polished. hence the lick. I have put whole sunstones in my mouth, like Jolly Rancher candies, to see if they have any obvious flaws. these are from my mine in Oregon:

(but only one at a time, of course...)

[godwantsit]

[distilled-prose]

At age 74, I can't begin to describe to you how true this is. With less than 5 exceptions, and despite my reaching out, all are too busy, or preoccupied, to stay in touch.