From Autumn 2 Winter

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Bushido

“El conocimiento no se puede considerar como tal hasta que se asimila al espíritu del que estudia y se manifiesta en su carácter” (Bushido, Inazo Nitobe) [Pintura de Asai Chu 1856-1907]

[ideasvitales]

Perfer et obdura

“Persiste y sé firme, este dolor algún día podrá serte útil” (Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim, Ovidio)

(Pintura “La novena ola” de Iván Konstantinovich Aivazovski, 1817-1900)  

[endless-unfolding]

Come, see real flowers of this painful world.

Matsuo Bashō, trans. Lucien Stryk, in On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)

[kottennic]

Johan Tirén, swedish artist that lived 1853-1911. 

Beautiful work. 

[cherokeeghostwriter]

Hold on to what is good, Even if it’s a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, Even if it’s a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, Even if it’s a long way from here. Hold on to your life, Even if it’s easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, Even if someday I’ll be gone away from you.

(A Pueblo Prayer)

[gyclli]

[mccoysm]

all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

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by. Anders Røkkum

[silly-luv]

[skyiscalling]

[spacettf]

Cassiopeia by jpstanley on Flickr.

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monkey knight riding a golden-scrotum ram

psalter and hours, Ghent ca. 1315-1325

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.82, fol. 194v

[adapto]

(April 2, 1990) This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The picture shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible.

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“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.

She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”

- Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

[humanoidhistory]

The planet Saturn, observed from Earth on October 14, 1968.

(Smithsonian Air & Space Museum)

[omgthatartifact]

Earrings

Byzantine, 600 AD

The Walters Museum

“These dramatic, colorful earrings were most likely made in Constantinople, perhaps as an imperial gift to a Visigothic ruler of medieval Spain, where the earrings were found. The Visigoths, a migratory group that ultimately settled in Spain, had by the 6th century established trade and diplomatic contacts with the Byzantine court, whose jewelry they much admired.”

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doggy pillow

Guillelmus Fichetus, Rhetorica, Paris 1471

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 176, f. 1r