Leaf House

mind filled with radio cures, electronic surgical words……

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[deludedflower]

Francesca Woodman, My House, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

[pam3pr]

Spain, in the Aezkoa and Salazar valleys (Basque Country).

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[syring3]

[body5000]

I want to sit and think about my dream all day

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Theodore Roszak, Invocation I, 1947, steel

[fragrantblossoms]

Eduard Gübelin. Nepal, Patan, circa 1977.

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Saguaro Cactus

[exhaled-spirals]

« A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything…. Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. »

— Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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Iranian brass amulet that renders its bearer more attractive and helps her capture and subdue a lover. The lover is symbolized as beast of burden.

[smsomah]

Egypt, around 1950. Helene Hoppenot

[adritatu]

Jean Christophe Béchet – The Mysteries of Venice

[body5000]

Recently

[tearsareinyoureyes]

Suwannee river. Low water levels, but the rainy season is back.

[tearsareinyoureyes]

I want everyone to know what Florida is like. Blackwater, sandy bottom rivers and crystal clear, crisp and cold spring fed rivers, both towered by limestone and oak trees. I like to tell myself the golden water in karst rivers and streams like these are healing and magical. It softens my hair and my skin, my feelings become gentle with more understanding. False indigo, native azaleas, sparkleberry and pine, oak and false indigo and river birch lead the way to cypress trees with webbed knees overhead. This drought has been long, exposing limestone and roots in the deep bluffs. And still there are fish to pass by, birds to look up to, and fireflies with their single goal. My single goal is to remember what it feels like here forever, because it won’t be here that long.

[sobergoose04]

and the last thing anyone discovers is always great awe

[vilicity]

old man who owns the used/rare bookshop down the street said, “this is a bizarre book” when he was ringing me up