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the curated love side

[katie-scott-blog]

Giant Waterlily, from Botanicum. Publishing Sept 16 with Big Picture Press. In association with Kew Gardens. By Katie Scott & Kathy Willis

[neetols]

Princess Urduja

Urduja (ca. 1350–1400 AD) is a legendary warrior princess who ruled the kingdom of Tawilisi, speculated to be Pangasinan, Philippines in the present day. Urduja was the leader of the Kinalakihan, the women warriors of her kingdom, and personally engaged in battles with other warriors. She was quoted as saying that she will not marry a man who cannot defeat her in wit and battle and thus was never wed.

[theartistandthephotographer]

[mafftv]

[mesogeios]

“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you―and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.”

— George Saunders

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” - Toni Morrison, Beloved

[extramadness]

[carpethedamndiem]

You can not control what stimulates You; however, You can always control your response to that stimulus.

[karlrincon]

Art.

[weltenwellen]

Kitty Stryker, “Radical Self-Reliance” Is Killing People.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Tran Nguyen aka Pockypuu aka My Name Is Tran (Vietnamese, b. 1987, Vietnam, based Augusta, GA, USA) - In the Dead of Night, 2019, Paintings: Acrylic, Colored Pencils on watercolor Paper

[you-are-another-me]

[robertocustodioart]

Earth

[archae-heart-deactivated2021012]

autumn days

[requiem-on-water]

“You would rather have gone on feeling nothing, emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace of the deepest sea, which is easier than the noise and flesh of the surface.”

by Natan Vance

[space-pics]

A frEGGS-plosion of Star Formation by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

[artfoli]

🌿 & 🌙

Would you rather live in a cave filled with gold like Mari, or the moon palace like Chang'e?

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A post shared by Crush (@crush.arts) on Oct 30, 2020 at 1:28pm PDT

Chang'e, a Chinese goddess of the moon that is known for stealing an elixir of immortality from her husband. After drinking the elixir, she travelled to the moon for safety, where the Jade Rabbit followed.

What was fascinating with this tale is that Chang'e has many different versions. The story either paints her as a greedy villainess or a heroine that made a sacrifice for the greater good.

My fourth, and final, photoshoot of the series will be next week, and I have yet to edit the photos from my third.