.أهلاً وسهلاً

[yama-bato]

Albarran Cabrera - The Indestructible

[80s-90s-fashionphotography]

Les scandaleuses - ELLE France (1998)

by Francois Halard

[roxygen]

[fordarkmornings]

Mikayıl Abdullayev (Azerbaijani, 1921-2002)

Women of Jaipur, 1957

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DSC00531 on Flickr.

I quickly snapped this picture whenever I was in the Old City in Jerusalem on one of my last days there. Its been over a year, but I recalled this picture whenever browsing through a lot of the manuscripts and calligraphy I post on this blog. For some reason the simple gesture of such a simple stencil inside of an arch in the Old City speaks to how simple remembrance is just as beautiful and significant. There are many things like it, but in a city full of beautiful monuments to God, this was a very concise message that stood out to me.

[roxygen]

Remembering.

Ramadan Mubarak.

[audreylovesparis]

Le Marais, Paris - seen through stained glass

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Detail of a miniature of a battle with archers and riders in armour, at the beginning of book 7, by the Master of the London Wavrin, from Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar), France (Lille) and Netherlands (Bruges), 1473-1476.

[yama-bato]

Takeshi Shikama

Chez Lunn 1,2, 2015

[dame-de-pique]

Phases de l’éclipse du 30 août 1905 [mission Andoyer]

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[apesoformythoughts]

An 18th century Nativity scene, the work of an illustrator from Aleppo and a scribe from Cairo.

[roxygen]

Earth, when are we retiring? You overheat most days and you’re infested with bipedal pests. 

[sunbathe]

[lesstalkmoreillustration]

Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková

(via 90-Year-Old Czech Grandma Turns Small Village Into Her Art Gallery By Hand-Painting Flowers On Its Houses | Bored Panda)

[thedogfamily]

[english-idylls]

♡

[roxygen]

Many people inhabit broken worlds. If the worlds aren’t broken, people will perceive them to be.

However, I wonder when you can confidently differentiate the one from the other? We’re projections projecting on other projections. It’s difficult to really see another person’s point of view. 

There are concrete things that break worlds. Concrete, broken things that broken people do to others. However, what of the more indirect mental offenses? What of externalities? Try identifying a crack in someone’s mind. If it’s easy it feels cheap. If it’s too difficult, it’s hard to know if it’s truly there.

With time, I feel less resolute.