Wildflower In A Zephyr

Writer

[redrola]

Carolyn Bessette and JFK Jr. in Paris, April 1996

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from her novel titled "The Last Man," published in 1826

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

-Zoë Lianne

[havingapoemwithyou]

Swimming, One Day in August by Mary Oliver

[stillgotscars]

Mary Oliver, from “The Pond” in Felicity

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Oliver, from "August" (via lunamonchtuna)

[malaisequotes]

“Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things.”

Let July be July by Morgan Harper Nichols

[mournfulroses]

Christa Wolf, from her essay collection titled "One Day a Year: 1960–2000," originally published in 2003

[shisasan]

This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.

Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

[neelyowhora]

[les-fleur]

No emotions now. I really want to be calm.

[coupleofdays]

Margaret Hamilton, Director of the Apollo project Software Engineering Division, with a stack of papers containing the code to the Apollo Guidance Computer navigation software. The software that on this day, in 1969, guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they landed on the Moon.

[introspectivepoet]

Lunar Plaque, first left on the surface of the Moon by the crew of Apollo 11.

[lonestarflight]

A technician holds the Apollo 11 plaque with the hinged cover open prior to installation on the LM ladder strut.

Apollo 11 plaque installed on the LM-5 Eagle prior to launch."The plaque is made of stainless steel measuring nine by seven and five-eights inches, and one-sixteenth inch thick. The plaque will be attached to the ladder on the landing gear strut on the descent stage of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM-5). Covering the plaque during flight will be a thin sheet of stainless steel which will be removed on the lunar surface."

Date: July 3-9, 1969

NASA ID: S69-38782, S69-39193, S69-39334, 69-HC-730, S69-38749

[sahind]

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” FIRST MAN (2018) Directed by Damien Chazelle

[lady-arryn]

Frances Stevens + costumes TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) dir. Alfred Hitchcock