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[pansexualrevolutionary]

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[lucencey]

[adrasteiax]

“I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Lament in “The Selected Poetry Of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition” [edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell]

[arianeka]

Berlin, 2026.

[hillcrypt]

Female figurines, Gravettian period (35-22ka)

From left to right: Willendorf, Monpazier, Dolní Věstonice, Frasassi, Sireuil, Laussel, Laussel, Kostyonki III, Kostyonki IV, Moravany, Renancourt, Laussel

[pwlanier]

STROMATOLITE SPECIMEN

UPPER TACHGAGALT FORMATION, MOROCCO, PRECAMBRIAN PERIOD, 635 – 541 MILLION YEARS B.P.

This specimen stands as evidence of some of the world’s earliest life forms. Stromatolites first appeared more than 3.5 billion years ago, forming in the shallow, warm waters of the Earth’s primordial seas. There, microbial mats trapped and bound fine sediment and minerals, creating layers over vast periods of time. The banding visible here preserves that gradual process, offering a direct link to life in its earliest stages.

Lyon and Turnbull

[pwlanier]

LARGE SPECIMEN OF LAPIS LAZULI

SAR-I-SANG, AFGHANISTAN

A large and impressive specimen of lapis lazuli from the historic Sar-i-Sang mines, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.

This historic source, worked for over 6,000 years, has produced some of the finest lapis lazuli known. Material from the Sar-i-Sang mines travelled along ancient trade routes to Mesopotamia and Egypt, where it was prized for its intense celestial-blue colour and symbolic association with the heavens and divinity. Used in jewellery, amulets, carvings, and later ground to create the precious pigment ultramarine, lapis lazuli has long been regarded as one of the most coveted ornamental stones of the ancient world.

Lyon and Turnbull

[metamorphesque]

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

[imawinnerforever]

[leahgardner-art]

Important places to be 🍗

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

[seaoflove]

concept: love as amalgamation in the art of edvard munch

whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — emily brontë

[metamorphesque]

Edvard Munch, Summer Night By the Beach

[paper-fairy]

Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark — Chapter 2

[pinkfairies]

♡ @pinkfairies

[sentimentalbeing2001]

[silk-fleur]

June Mood: light pink peony bouquet, strawberries and cream, sparkly headbands, pink tulle, cherry blossom rosé, ballet flats with bows, broderie anglais blouses, Sleeping Beauty Waltz.