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weltenwellen

“the forests grow back with patience, not rage;”

— Tony Hoagland, from “Peaceful Transition”

singmuse

Good lord I needed to read this.

theancientwayoflife

~ Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido. Artist: Workshop of Biduinus (Italian, active last quarter 12th century) Date: ca. 1175 Place of origin: Made in Tuscany, Italy Medium: Marble (Carrara marble)

Letting go

It’s hard to let go when your body is clinging to the dream. It lasted just a few weeks, I could count them on my fingers alone. For that handful, the dream was mine. The dream was ours, luminous as a pearl, shining and delicate, a beacon of the future. Then - then it popped. And I am left waiting, waiting for my body to let go, to release the dream I have been so rudely awakened from.

#musing #letting go #prose #processing #i know this is not very subtle sorry

historical-nonfiction

This paperweight, made of haematite carved in the shape of a grasshopper, looks pretty modern. But it was hand-carved between 1800 and 1700 BCE, in ancient Babylonia!

singmuse

Seriously if you said this was from the 1920s or 30s, I wouldn’t have doubted it!

#ancient art

riovidalll

To All the Mutuals I Still Follow Even Though We Only Had That One Hyperfixation in Common Like Five Years Ago

sometimesawitch

Let’s Talk About Something Other Than

The election. I’ll start. I’ve never seen Top Gun. I’m almost 45 so I SHOULD have seen Top Gun but I haven’t. I’ve also never seen Lost Boys. Again, I should have seen it but I have not. I think not having seen iconic* movies as a child might be the reason I have trouble relating.

*admittedly a loose term

lnthefade

I’ve never seen Top Gun, either. Also, Titanic. Avatar. Any of the Mission Impossible movies. Yet I’ve seen Hot Rod and Napoleon Dynamite about 50 times each.

lafix

I’ve never seen The Shawshank Redemption and the look on ppl’s faces when this is revealed feeds my wicked soul.

lnthefade

I’ve seen about ten minutes of Shawshank and it’s the last ten minutes.

cloudydaysometimes

I always get Shawshank and Green Mile confused and it frustrates Ken like crazy

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I’ve never seen Clue

singmuse

I haven’t seen Titanic aside from the first fifteen minutes in high school French class.

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Cornice Part, The Cloisters

The Cloisters Collection, 1925 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Marble

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470625

likeniobe

the most important thing to know about the plot of hamlet is that it’s so convoluted that the main character is kidnapped by pirates and it’s not even really a major plot point

likeniobe

dame-de-pique

Etude d'arbre, 1900

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today in “things i’m disproportionately emotional about”:

it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!

like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:

doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed

what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever

people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what

they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly

they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves

they all sang songs

they all drew pictures

they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests

they fell in love

they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them

they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole

creekfiend

Oh I like him he looks like he would appreciate my jokes

systlin

This dude would have great stories at a get-together and would bring some really great homemade dip.

hungry-hungry-hobbit

I feel like he really digs Lo-Fi Music

kaijutegu

This guy was sculpted by Alfons and Adrie Kennis, and their Neanderthal reconstructions are all delightful.

I love the kid in the last picture a lot- they look like a kid, just a little kid who’s done some mischief and is trying not to laugh about it.

I also adore their Lucy- they’ve struck a wonderful balance between the falling angel and the rising ape.

And their Turkana boy- there’s something precious and wistful in those eyes.

But my favorite has got to be their reconstruction of H. floresiensis.

Just look at her. That’s a face of someone who’s lived and seen a lot, but also a face that’s known love and joy and laughter. That’s a face with a soul.