Fledgling Tumult

Both sobriety and joie de vivre.

[islamicrays]

[espherio]

Plein air gouache studies from Yosemite and Zion

[asmallfrogart]

Small Independent Deer Does Its Errands

[gouachevalier]

“Keeping to one woman is a small price for so much as seeing one woman. To complain that I could only be married once would be like complaining that I had only been born once.”

— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, AD 1908 (via wearefearfullyandwonderfullymade)

[anancientheart]

[heyatleastitsnotcancer]

Just a heads up given the current political climate but there is a difference between concentration camps and extermination camps. I’m speaking as someone with a masters in the Holocaust which I honestly hate to pull out but it’s necessary here. Both concentration camps and extermination camps are horrible crimes against humanity and violate the 1948 Genocide Convention. Concentration camps existed before and after the Holocaust. They existed during the Herero and Namaqua genocide, Armenian genocide, in Cuba, in the Soviet Union, in Japanese occupied territory, by the US against Native Americans and Japanese Americans. Concentration camps are not unique to the Holocaust, though the Holocaust had the largest scale of concentration camps.

Calling out the US government for detaining children in camps that have horrible conditions and are causing irreparable harm to children, including some dying, does not dismiss or insult the memory of Holocaust victims or survivors. Pointing out injustice elsewhere does not disgrace those who have faced injustice before. People are just using this argument as a way to deflect focus from the problem at hand: the camps in the United States right now. Don’t fall for it.

[geekandmisandry]

This is perfectly timed across my dash. Concentration camps existed before WWII and people need language to explain what is happening.

[sovietpostcards]

“Can’t wait for Monday and work!”

[lenjaminmacbuttons]

anyways i don’t presume to know Everything but I do feel like…if you were born into privilege its not as a blessing or some sort of reward for Premortal Valiance or whatever, it’s because God wants part of your celestial journey to center on confronting and rejecting that privilege and unlearning the inherent prejudice therein

[davidmesquivel]

Another spotlight experiment

[lifeinpoetry]

At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?

Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic (via lifeinpoetry)

[mikedawwwson]

Why Did They Come?

[neoyorzapoteca]

The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda | Granta Magazine

[catgirlisms-moved-deactivated20]

do you ever you get the intense need to make some pastries and plant a garden

[islamicrays]

““Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.””

— “Love and Happiness”, Yasmin Mogahed

[nemophilies-deactivated20190428]

Wild Dog, 1959 Ice Pool, 1969 Andrew Wyeth. 

[a-candle-for-sherlock]

These love letters between 12th century nuns are hauntingly beautiful

"I sigh for you at every hour, at every moment, like a hungry little bird."

“Since I’ve had to be without your sweetest presence, I have not wished to hear or see any other human being, but as the turtle-dove, having lost its mate, perches forever on its little dried up branch, so I lament endlessly till I shall enjoy your trust again. I look about and do not find my lover — she does not comfort me even with a single word.

Indeed when I reflect on the loveliness of your most joyful speech and aspect, I am utterly depressed, for I find nothing now that I could compare with your love, sweet beyond honey and honeycomb, compared with which the brightness of gold and silver is tarnished. What more?”

[tendercoredyke]

i’m literally going to lose my mind?????

[loumargi]

Detail from Cupid & Psyche by François Gérard