Vain things to blog about

in which a twenty-one-year-old college student collects some moments and drops them as pennies into a well.

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Falling Frost by Marco Heisler

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TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.6 II. Allegro con grazia E. Mravinsky

PI TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 op 74 'Patetique' II. Allegro con grazia Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra E. Mravinsky http://cuestiondesensibilidad.blogspot.com

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The models for American Gothic, ca. 1940s.

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IMG_2827 by mookie427 on Flickr.

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Owls Are Flying Cats

Photos via Pleated-Jeans.com

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24 Owls That Will Make You Say, “Aww”

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james edward keeler—the pleiades; the great nebula in orion (photographs of nebulae and clusters, made with the crossley reflector, 1900)

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Good, sound advice. 

Image credit: MIA.

can you help us find the artist? 

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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein (via wordsnquotes)

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Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings). Every one of the dozens of times I've heard this piece in the last three years, I think of you. It is impossible to believe you've been gone for almost three years. I can't believe how much has changed since then, and how terrifyingly different the world is now. But your fingerprints are still on everything in this place.

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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.

John Keats in a letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, dated 8, April 1818.  (via wordsnquotes)

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“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  (via loveage-moondream)

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Ruth Slenczynska plays Rachmaninoff E flat major prelude

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Such relaxation in the hand. Beautifully open.

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[sniffling]

the only advice you’ll ever need

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St. Petersburg, in focus