[snakekestrel]

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

I may not complete this last one but I will give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.

I've been circling for thousands of years and I still don't know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?

-Rainer Maria Rilke

[falconandwolf]

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do.

You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[falconandwolf]

Bio is under construction, as am I.

I'm Rainer!

Dog and bird dad, photographer, falconer, and nerd.

Other interests: Animals, animal training and behavior, dinosaurs both modern and prehistoric, birding, being in nature, space, aquariums, baseball, video games, reading, poetry, maybe dipping my toes into writing again, history, learning new things to add to this list and obsess about.

I first made a Tumblr more years ago than I care to think about. It was a time when I had very little left to grasp onto in life, and even stepping out my door was more than I could handle most days. I had no friends, and through Tumblr I slowly relearned how to engage with and connect with people again in a way I had lost. I have been blessed to meet and know so many incredible people on here over the years I’ve had this blog. Some are lifelong friends, some are lost to time and missed but the memories and lessons learned have helped me grow and been a part of me becoming a version of myself I’m learning to be proud of.

I’m going to be using this blog to share things I find beautiful as well as glimpses into my life and eventually some of my photography. This will stay mostly SFW right now, but there might be some spicy writing/pictures/poetry that get reblogged depending on my mood, so NSFW warning.

I still love meeting new people, making new friends, and connecting. If I follow you or like your posts, it’s pretty likely I’d be happy to hear from you and get to know you if you want to reach out, but there are no expectations of course. I have a horrible habit of getting overwhelmed and dropping off the face of the earth for months at a time, so if we’ve spoken in the past and I disappeared, know you are always welcome to reach out again. That all said, please be patient with me and understand that sometimes I do need to shrink my social bubble for a time and focus on my life. I promise to reciprocate that patience and compassion.

DNI list: Minors, hateful people in general

Soft DNI list: If your intent is only sexual (sexting, sending pictures, or wanting to receive pictures) please leave me alone. No matter the content of your blog, I try to engage with everyone as a human being, so please give me that same courtesy. Consent matters for everyone!

[snakekestrel]

Going to try and be more active on Tumblr again, but I'll be gradually moving over to this new main blog. If we've spoken in the past and you'd like to reconnect feel free to reach out, I will do the same!

[nature-travel-photography]

Tulum, Mexico - Author: CottonSpell

[daily-spooky]

Nature is so beautiful 🕸️

[stay-close]

“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[absenceisaformofwinter]

Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape

and the little churchyard with its lamenting names

and the terrible reticent gorge in which the others

end: again and again the two of us walk out together

under the ancient trees, lay ourselves down again and again

among the flowers, and look up into the sky.

By Rainer Maria Rilke

[rubypomegranates]

"At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost."

Rainer Maria Rilke "Letters on Cézanne"

[expressions-of-nature]

by Jaeyoun Ryu

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[neverlvnd]

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[sickpage]

[awwdorables]

[rebel-heart-gypsysoul]

[aestum]

(by roundtheworldgirl) | {Website}

[unholyeldritch-deactivated20260]

Time to take a walk in the woods.

[florealegiardini]

Sunlight filters through the ancient oaks of the Ariundle Oakwood and falls on patches of bluebells that cover the woodland floor Strontian, Sunart. Scotland, UK and ~ Steven Marshall

[maureen2musings]

In forests old, where magic thrives...

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