things of wild peace

YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHY STORMS ARE NAMED AFTER PEOPLE

[nasa]

That's us, together.

While we're looking up at the Artemis II astronauts journeying to the Moon, they're looking back home at us. 

In this image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.

In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.

Follow the Artemis II astronauts on their journey to the Moon:

[heymacy]

You will wish you never met me. Impossible.

[michaelnordeman]

Red Crossbill/mindre korsnäbb. Värmland, Sweden (January 25, 2020).

[anxeious]

[oncewild]

thinking about this bit from an article by Ann Druyan in 2003:

“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me – it still sometimes happens – and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous – not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous and so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful… The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived.

That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”

[anancientheart]

[sophsun1]

Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown (1985) dir. Bill Melendez & Sam Jaimes

[timothyolyphant]

How old are you, huh? Fifty? Ish. THE PITT S02E03

[dappermouth]

You feel you’ve been here, once before — a memory that was not quite yours.

[boyd-stevens]

THE MUMMY 1999, dir. Stephen Sommers

[sofysta]

Cristal Palace ~ Madrid

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

[romcommunist]

lukewarm take but i personally do not give a shit if poor people cheat a system that was designed to fail them anyways. i also coincidentally do not enjoy the taste of boot rubber

[rylandsgrace]

ANDREW GARFIELD

Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W Magazine (Jan. 4, 2025)

[best-guess]

Anastasia (1997)  dir. Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

merry christmas @vaganov!! (x) from your @creatorsofcolornet secret santa <3

[everythingfox]

Spooky duck

[fallingforleavesandpumpkins]

[soundcarvings]

Whenever an ugly feeling arises in me, maybe resent, greed, insecurity, etc. I just have to laugh and think to myself, this is what being alive is and I don’t deny my capacity for ugliness, in fact I store my faith in it because that same awareness of my own ugliness is the place I go to when I am aware of my own beauty. I have all the time in the world to sort it out, that’s the thing with self trust. I don’t hide from others and I don’t hide from myself, where there is ugliness I observe it and I don’t turn away.

[soundcarvings]

People who deny their own ugliness, turn away from it, find shame in it and then pretend that they aren’t ashamed are the ones with the deepest capacity for cruelty. Time to see yourself clearly and move forward anyways.