Abraham

he/him Aquarius

[porcelainapparition]

dreamy

[remanence-of-love]

[mournfulroses]

Olivia Tapiero, from her book titled "Nothing At All," originally published in January 2026

[soleilinfini]

mary oliver, staying alive

[quotefeeling]

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

[nemfrog]

I searched "eclipse 1868" on the Nemfrog page on Tumblr on a web browser. This grid came up labeled "More like this."

[2dovess-deactivated20251229]

[morgenlich]

we also had a really good conversation in class today about how the us national parks system is deeply, deeply tied to european ideas of the sublime + picturesque, how yellowstone and yosemite were easy choices but the everglades required intense reframing in order to make them “beautiful” before they could be awarded environmental preservation, and how there is one (1) national park here in illinois, and it’s abraham lincoln’s neighborhood in springfield the nat’l parks have not given consideration to illinois wetlands or prairies or even our shore along lake michigan. any nature based parks here are state parks, not part of the national parks system and ofc this is not getting into racism and colonial agriculture and viewing the land as utility to be used and so on

[its-a-date]

In 1816 his parents, Thomas and Nancy, took their family north across the Ohio river, partly to get secure title to leave but also to escape from slave society – Thomas belonging to a strict Baptist sect that abhorred slavery. The land that Thomas acquired in Indiana was virgin forest. That winter Abe, aged seven, spent most of the time, axe in hand, helping clear the trees so they could plant corn the following spring.

"America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States," revised and updated edition - David Reynolds

[selkiesstories]

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[enchantedbook]

'Untitled' by Protoguy

[firstfullmoon]

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Venus and the Pleiades

[heavensghost]

Disappearing

[enchantedbook]

'The Casket' from Europa’s Fairy Book (1916), with illustrations by John Dickson.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

leather bound books 

19th century