[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[fuckindiva]

Homeric Hymn to Hermes (tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White)

[victoriaelyse]

[achesspiece]

is that simple task bothering you queen

[mothmiso]

Naqshbandi Mausoleum (2) (3) (4) by tombomba2

post #1; post #2; post #4; post #5

[thebellavita]

[simena]

Alexander Brantingham Simpson

[tendermimi]

Søren Kierkegaard, Diaries 1813-1855

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

[zemestoun]

sandro botticelli, dante and beatrice in stars

[firstfullmoon]

Those days of blistering cold are almost always accompanied by a kind of light that is so pure and crystallized it feels like salvation, if salvation could feel like anything. There is a type of winter light, a cold light seeming warm, a light that, when beamed through a windowpane, feels like it clears whatever it touches, maybe even forgives it. It is a light that makes you forget death, a light that makes you wonder if death is even possible. It is a light like water, as beautiful as it is full of life.

— Devin Kelly, Ordinary Plots: Jenny George’s “Reprieve”

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[furtho]

Walking across the frozen Lake Reschensee to the church tower of the drowned village of Graun, Italy (via here) 

[theinternetarchive]

from 'bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life,' anne lamott, pub. 1994.

[whenthegoldrays]

Georges Rochegrosse, Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas

[pollen]

Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"