I was only just born into open air

AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR MYSELF A NEW HEART FROM SALT AND MUD

[holespoles]

Haruka Kawakami

A cat trying its best despite its limitations ↔ A tired cat

かわかみはるか

出来ないなりに頑張る猫⇔疲れた猫

[killing-the-prophet]

Kalsoy island and Kallur lighthouse in sunset light in the Faroe Islands. Wojciech Kruczynski

[mammalianmammals]

Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia, Canberra, Australia

photographs by Raelene Pitcher

[icaseybaybee]

[renamonkalou]

Observing the reindeer under the aurora | 

Aurora Borealis Observatory

[noverim-te]

I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding expanse to reach us. That it loves searching out what is hidden, what is lost, what is forgotten or in peril or in pain. That it has a fondness for the body, for finding its way toward flesh, for tracing the edges of form, for shining forth through the eye, the hand, the heart.

I cannot tell you how the light comes, but that it does. That it will. That it works its way into the deepest dark that enfolds you, though it may seem long ages in coming or arrive in a shape you did not foresee. 

And so may we this day turn ourselves toward it. May we lift our faces to let it find us. May we bend our bodies to follow the arc it makes. May we open and open more and open still to the blessed light that comes.

 —Jan Richardson

[flowerytale]

Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

[akindplace]

annalaura_art

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jie Song (Malaysian, b. 1982, Malaysia, based Kuala Lumpur, KL, Malaysia) - Flourish in Radiance, 2025, Paintings: Oil, Acrylic on Canvas

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

i'm going to make a life i love even if it's not the one i expected or thought i wanted. and i am going to let myself be proud and grateful of what i do have. i am allowed to be proud of it without other people realizing the gravity of what i have accomplished in scale to my life and abilities. i do not need permission.

[inloveforevr-deactivated2025041]

Oh damn..

[theoptia]

Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Text ID: Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

[aioleis]

24-year-old Tracy Chapman forced to fill in last minute and stuns Wembley Stadium into silence with just a guitar and her vocals, 1988.

[playburo]

Julia Fernandez

[arthistoryanimalia]

ARTICLE: Sermon on the sea-mount: the fascinating history of fishy sea pulpits

The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across Central Europe:

Sermon on the sea-mount: the fascinating history of fishy sea pulpits

The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across central Europe. We’ve caught several in our net

the pulpit at St Hedwig’s, Dobroszów, c. 1750

[bonjourmelodie]

They just don’t make pulpits like they used to.

[opticculture-deactivated2017120]

everchanginghorizon :: Strong sunlight after snow caused the trees to start steaming. An unexpected and magical moment.

[grupaok]

Robert Barry, Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me, February 6, 1971