let's let things come out of the woodwork

Neomi | she/her | 20 | mostly pictures & art

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Shelfve

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Claude Monet’s home in Giverny 

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Photography by Xuebing Du

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“The Goddesses” (1935)– Madame Yevonde’s tongue-in-cheek portraits of society women dressed as figures from classical mythology.

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Vlisco fabrics (click to enlarge)

1-2. 2013 3-4. 2014 “Splendour” 5-6. 2015

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losing my mind over this

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a series of tweets from Aisha Malik (@aishapmailk, 18 Mar 20)

Anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kindgom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enought for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts.

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized. - Ira Byrock, The Bet Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (Avery, 2012)

(tweets combined for ease of reading)

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Francis Bacon (Irish-English, 1909-1992, b. Dublin, Ireland) - Sleeping Figure, 1959, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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Dima Tolkachov - dying fireworks

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More pictures of those hills that were covered with flowers. 

July 11.

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Night crawler, Kevin N. Murphy