THE KINGDOM

Class and Beauty

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

When people are truly open and intimate with each other art happens. Intimacy as art. Disarming fragility as art. The dialogue of hearts as art.

[zombilenium]

‘Moribund’

F22 Photography

[robert-hadley]

[tkkatherineblog]

[fillielitsa]

A woman is drying incense sticks, a process in making incense. Vietnamese believe that incense is a tool to connect the living with the spirits. When people burn incense, they can talk to spirits and pray.

© Khanh Phan-Thi

[artist-monet]

Rain in Belle-Ile, 1886, Claude Monet

https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/rain-in-belle-ile

[flowerytale]

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

[english-idylls]

Charlotte Brontë’s description of her sister Emily from ‘The Editor’s Preface to the new edition of Wuthering Heights’.

[allthingseurope]

Bode Museum, Berlin (by Dani Sorokin)

[hype]

[timotey]

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

[1five1two]

First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. It is the same in the moral world.

Aldous Huxley

[yesterdaysprint]

The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana, December 7, 1940

[love]

“We’re on the same wavelength. We’re connected that way, even if I’m away from her.” ― Haruki Murakami. Drawing by Juan Osorno.

[ancientorigins]

Abdel Kader Haidara, the librarian who saved Timbuktu´s ancient cultural treasures from al-qaeda

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Felix Vallotton (1865-1925)

The Sheaves     1915

[macrolit]