fortunatos nimium...

/ Mexican, Roman Catholic: hopeful philologist, medievalist, and poet. It's a beautiful life. / "It is not we who speak, but the Spirit." - St. Matthew / "'Tell all the truth but tell it slant.'" - Dickinson / "If you're going through Hell, keep going." - my dad / "Nella natura tua, O Deità eterna, cognoscerò la natura mia...O Trinità eterna, Amor mio dolce, tu Lume, dona a noi lume, tu Sapientia, dà a noi sapientia, tu somma Fortezza, fortifica." - St. Catherine of Siena

[cannonbreedpixels]

Have a rest

[caffeinatedrosary]

How blessed are we that at the foot of the cross, our Lord Jesus Christ gave us his mother so that we wouldn't be orphans anymore.

[thunderstruck9]

Richard Mayhew (American, 1924-2024), Delusions, 2000. Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 in. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

They seemed to have left winter clinging to the hills behind. Here the air was softer and warmer, and faintly scented, as if spring was already stirring and the sap was flowing again in herb and leaf. Legolas took a deep breath, like one that drinks a great draught after long thirst in barren places.

– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[theinwardlight]

“It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.”

— Charles de Foucauld (via theinwardlight)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Koho Shoda

Lake Biwa

1910-1930s.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Light Catcher, oil on linen, 2012 by Hélène Béland

[f00fle4cakes]

I just found this image and words cannot describe how much I love it. I don’t know where it’s from, but it looks like he’s having a jolly time

[james-hetfield-is-a-bottom]

It's from the Songbook of Zeghere van Male, apparently!

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[nitewrighter]

Peer-reviewing tags by @dickwitch

[hollowedskin]

I'm in tears... The bawawa...

[lizlukens]

[aurorepeuffier]

I grew some chia seeds. I thought it would be interesting to do some stop-motion animation. Then I added 2D characters.

[hypokeimena]

remember when you could find websites that contained information

[keiraincognita]

[triangleguy]

everybody hates led headlights but it is 1000x worse when you have an old car. this is what i deal with on a daily basis

[buckskinboots]

Lindholm Høje - a Viking burial site

[pinoruno]

i love this tweet

[tsalala]

A young melanistic leopard in Kali Tiger Reserve, India. Photographed by Mithun Hunugund.

[etiennelux]

reading a negative review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn’t understand it at all