[love-elevated]

Why is it so hard for people to understand that modern food is not quite what it used to be a few centuries ago? I feel like I hit a wall whenever I tell people to just ditch gluten or sugar.

[derekjarman]

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, 1945)

[perriaeyjeve]

[love-elevated]

People used to carry lockets with pictures of their loved ones, now they get tattoos. And may I say… let’s go back to lockets

[keepcatholic]

General Washington caught in the buff sans blue but still sporting his miniature portrait locket of Martha.

[love-elevated]

People used to carry lockets with pictures of their loved ones, now they get tattoos. And may I say… let’s go back to lockets

[sometimes-im-a-ballerina]

Yume Okano La Bayadere, Polish National Ballet photos by Remy Lamping

[philosophybits]

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

[fairycosmos]

a heatwave is a type of ancient curse

[love-elevated]

I guess it’s not a modern problem, huh

[petaltexturedskies]

As I grew older the things I cared about grew fewer, but were more important.

Mary Oliver, from "Storage" in Devotions

[citizenscreen]

James Cagney having a cup of coffee and a danish at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

[petaltexturedskies]

Found a shy little friend (pic taken by soleatto)

[despazito]

sometimes an american will be talking to you and they start throwing around numbers like 70 or 90 when talking about the weather and you just have to smile and nod

[les-fleur]

Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[love-elevated]

A change is as good as a rest

[periodinteriors]

Johann Nepomuk Hoechle (Austrian, 1790-1835), Beethoven's Room at the Time of his Death [Beethoven's study in the Schwarzspanierhaus, his final residence, painted three days after the composer's death], 1827, ink and wash.