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"Ful wys is he that kan hym selven knowe." 36 • Michigan • Lover of words and waves

[existential-celestial]

“Translucence. Beauty. Wintry daylight. It all fills me with such holy moments.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Virginia Woolf c. February 1913

[hotelisolation]

[stay-close]

“It’s life that matters, nothing but life – the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[metamorphesque]

— Mary Oliver, The Pond

[huariqueje]

 Rear Window - Ida Lorentzen ,  2022.

Norwegian - American , b. 1951 -

Oil on canvas , 150 x 120 cm.

[britinthepnw]

Porthleven, 1931. French schooner, St Anne, on the rocks

[joeinct]

William S Burroughs, Photo by by Allen Ginsberg, 1986

[hobgobknowsbest]

[enchantedbook]

2024 will be the Year of the Wood Dragon, Welcome!

Art by Hosio Hirotta

[thegildedcentury]

"Tragedy is the beauty of intolerable truths."

—Edith Hamilton

[rootlessly]

autumn mornings ⋇ 5 oct

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West c. September 1926

[bookporn]

Leeuwarden Old City graveyard, Netherlands by Mortangia

[justalittlesolarpunk]

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

[hidekomoon]

I did it again (part 1 here)

1. Godward’s A Fair Reflection (1915) and Waterhouse’s The Soul of the Rose (1908)

2. Frank Cadogan Cowper’s Damsel of the Lake (1924) kissing the lady in Auguste Toulmouche’s The Kiss (c.1870)

3. Waterhouse’s A Song of Springtime (1913) and Auguste Toulmouche’s Woman and Roses (1879)

4. Evelyn De Morgan’s Ariadne in Naxos (1877) with Waterhouse’s Sweet Summer (1912)

5. A woman from Charles Perugini’s Dolce Far Niente (1882) about to wake up Victor Gilbert’s Sleeping Beauty (date unknown)

please reblog if you save!

[electronicgallery]

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century).

[random-brushstrokes]

Francesc Masriera - Salomé (1888)