幽玄

lingering memory, aftertaste

[insidetheether]

[insidetheether]

[mirrorsinner]

Kasekimo

[dereinsamewanderer]

The snake and the butterfly

Found on a grave from the 1850s in the Alter Friedhof (old cemetery) in Darmstadt, Germany. The symbol of the snake devouring its own tail represents cyclicality, unity, or infinity, and it can often be found on classical graves. In the romantic period, the butterfly was a sign of the hope of resurrection (larva, pupa, butterfly), it also represented the soul freed from all material.

[perriaeyjeve]

[perriaeyjeve]

[angelicdewdrop]

[nobrashfestivity]

Okamoto Kiichi Children's songbook cover illustration, "Moon on the Fifteenth Night" 1921

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[letterful]

[antronaut]

Kawai Kanjiro - Stoneware Bottle Vase (c.1950s)

[nobrashfestivity]

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1912

[missmirrorselfie01]

[intrepidgirlreader]

Now, more than ever, I wished desperately for a way to transfer pain, wished I could prove to my mother just how much I loved her, that I could just crawl into her hospital cot and press my body close enough to absorb her burden. It seemed only fair that life should present such an opportunity to prove one’s filial piety. That the months my mother had been a vessel for me, her organs shifting and cramping together to make room for my existence, and the agony she’d endured upon my exit could be repaid by carrying this pain in her place. The rite of an only daughter.

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

[the-night-picture-collector]

Edward Hopper, A Woman Sitting on a Bridge in Paris, 1907

[priestessofmissouri]

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, Soft Science