Luces

[arpeggia]

Details of the Sistine Madonna by Raphael, photographed by Katharina Gaenssler, 2012 (book)

[bookshavepores]

Jane Austen’s handwritten manuscript of Persuasion

[fuckyeahbookarts]

Book that Came Across the Atlantic Ocean in 1847, along with my Ancestors (by Delina)

“Several of my ancestors practiced their handwriting, letters and numbers in this book of poetry written about 1827. The book is pretty crumbly, but I love having it. I can picture the long voyage with boredom setting in and not much to write on or write with, for that matter. My file name says clover, but I am thinking it is a shamrock pressed in the pages.

The book was given to me by an eccentric uncle of mine in about 1978 or so, when my children and I lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book face page said it was written at the Dawn of the Reformation in Ireland. I checked around, and was told that would be about 1827. So the book was about 150 years old when I got it, and about 20 years old when children wrote in it. There were two children who belonged to my direct lineage, and then five of their first cousins with them, who had been orphaned. Imagine taking 7 children across the ocean on about a 3 month voyage. My direct ancestors are the couple that brought the 7 children over from Ireland, via Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and then up the Mississippi River to the area of Rockport and Preemption, Mercer County, Illinois, USA.. They were very brave or very desperate or both.”

That is indeed a shamrock, the symbol of Ireland :)

[bttrflyblu]

Eternal Eclipse - Theory of Light (Official Music Video)

[yama-bato]

Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. Dessins à la plume 1984 – 1987

[writerswritecompany]

RIP, Umberto Eco, born 5 January 1932, died 19 February 2016

[algodeloquevi]

Otra vez a olvidar

El otoño ha empezado a golpear mi ventana,

Se han empezado a apagar algunas voces, a huir, a esconderse

de las promesas hechas en verano.

Me obligan al silencio.

De aquellas horas guardo poco, lo necesario para escribir sobre sus miedos. 

Lo necesario para hacer de la próxima estación mi duelo.

[lazyyogi]

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Edward Hopper (USA 1882-1967) The Creek at Hogencamps (1900) ink on paper 26.7 x 19.7 cm

[unknownwrath-deactivated2015090]

[aubreylstallard]

Augusto Giacometti, Adam and Eve, 1907

[lampiridos]

Nuestro carácter nos hace meternos en problemas, pero es nuestro orgullo el que nos mantiene en ellos.

Esopo

[design-is-fine]

Trompe l’oeil with landscape on a letter rack, late 17th century. South Netherlandish School. Via Sothebys

[lampiridos]

Bazaruto - Mozambique

[paintingsforants]

Apple for ants painted in The Big Apple during the @cbsthismorning shoot. 0.5 x 0.6 inches. 1/10 original pieces in The New York Collection. SOLD. 🐜🍎🇺🇸

#ANTSinNYC #thebigapple #appleforants (at Three Kings Studio)

[lampiridos]

Two by Two, Italy

By Steve McCurry

https://stevemccurry.wordpress.com

[lampiridos]

La puerta de la felicidad se abre hacia dentro, hay que retirarse un poco para abrirla: si uno la empuja, la cierra cada vez más.

Søren Kierkegaard

[iseo58]

Chinese art Peach Blossom (2003) by Liu Hong Yuan