moonpennies

[talestalesof]

True love involves waiting for one's love is something we might guess from all the world's love stories, but I have never before seen the trial of this waiting so transparently formulated as a spiritual discipline through which one comes to win that love and deserve it.

Sheila Heti, Afterword. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector

[bebs-art-gallery]

Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

[oldsardens]

Lin Onus - Reflections (Barmah Forest) 1994 – 95

[thunderstruck9]

Lin Onus (Australian, 1948-1996), Reflections (Barmah Forest), 1994-95. Acrylic on canvas, 182 x 182 cm.

[downinyonforest]

from Simone Weil’s Pre-War Notebook

[boykeats]

“Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. […] We’re in the world, not against it. […] The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”

— Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (via exhaled-spirals)

[justanothermasterpiece]

Cy Twombly.

[seiitchi]

[joan-mitchell]

Plate (folio 11) from The Poems, Joan Mitchell, 1960, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Richard Miller Size: composition (irreg.): 17 3/8 × 13 13/16" (44.1 × 35.1 cm); page: 17 5/16 × 14 1/8" (44 × 35.8 cm) Medium: One from an illustrated book with five screenprints (including cover)

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11566

[madatmost]

Sirene song 2021, Ragnhild May

[asoftwrongness]

forest of desire

instagram | prints

[powerburial]

all women born after 800 AD do is tempt, blaspheme, witchcraft, eat potent herbs to aid in their foul divinations, and lie

[rudygodinez]

Erica Baum, Nine Images from “Dog Ear”, (2011)

A dog-eared page — a folded corner — is the simplest memory system: it marks a stopping point, a favorite passage, a place to remember. Along with marginalia, underlining, and other notational strategies, dog ears map a history of reading and remind us that reading is a physical act: an encounter with words, to be sure, but also a tactile experience with paper and individual pages of a book. A dog ear is legible as a readerly engagement with the material text. Someone read this; someone stopped here. 

Erica Baum’s book Dog Ear (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011) makes this point and takes it further. In Baum’s rendering, the dog ear presents an activist readerly engagement: by folding a page, the reader creates a new site of meaning, a square of text to be encountered not as placeholder but as a rich cluster of words, selected (appropriated, deformed) by the reader’s hand. 

[theocseason4]

No umbrellas we get cleansed by the rain like stevie nicks wanted

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

consorting with angels, anne sexton

[lets-talk-about-sects]

bitch me too the fuck

[everythingstarstuff]

Crumb - Locket [Official Video]

[waliszewska]

[the-other-voice]

“It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the ‘father of modern medicine,’ burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he 'had learned from the Sorceress all he knew.’”

— Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A History of Women Healers (1973)