The Greater Wheel

Victoria. 29. Writer. Dancer. Story-teller. Silver-limbed and dripping. "...Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies."

[shisasan]

Egon Schiele I, Eternal Child: Paintings and Poems

[jesuisrempli]

Interesting how sadness makes you real.

[lamignonette]

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[lizardlicks]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

[wizxrdpendrxgon]

The backlash was a major lawsuit from 9 tribes alongside other lawsuits from advocacy groups like NDN Collective. You can support NDN Collective by donating to them here.

[thoughtkick]

“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

[belinsky]

“I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. “We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry? “I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.””

— Roger Ebert, on Hayao Miyazaki (via moonbrains)

[apocryphics]

Jean-Luc Nancy, tr. Leslie Hill

[thequietedge]

📍Istanbul, October 2025

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 / XC15-45mm

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Li Shang-Yin, tr. by John A. Turner, from “A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems,”

[achillesinhighheels]

A Different Image, 1982

[1five1two]

'Sea Waves'. Sozayemon Nishimura. 1855-1935. Embroidery on Silk.

[eatpussypraylove]

I love treating each stage of my life with care and respect even if I don’t like it at the time. So I can look back later and know I didn’t take it for granted. And refusing to be jealous of where others are at. It’s a self-respect thing

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from “Late Spring” in Felicity: Poems

[spinmeround]

Jia Li , Summer Light, 2015

[mouseshouses]

Old sweethearts

[vintageeurope]

Melrose Abbey, Scotland 1875/85

[sottopressione1]

Mamuthone