mysterium tremendum et fascinans

sofi

[etherealcry]

"Sypanie piaskiem" is an old custom from the rural parts of Poland that consists in drawing protective or decorative symbols with sand.

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Sahara toujours recommencé; 1978; Henri-Jean Hugot & Jean-Marc Durou and Joël Jaffré

[funeral]

L'Été / Summer (1968) dir. Marcel Hanoun

[yourtryhard]

[werenotreallystrangers]

the longer you avoid it the louder it gets

[yama-bato]

Bhupendra Karia, “Peasant’s Foot on Cart, Bhuj” (Kutch, 1968) (courtesy Bhupendra Karia and sepiaEYE)

[smsomah]

Veils from the Desert, 1994; Pamela Singh

[a-h-mad-hish]

“Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[perriaeyjeve]

[starswaterairdirt]

autochrome by Thomas Shields Clarke, 1910

[cupofmeat]

Book binding by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1897.

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise; Catherine Clement and photos by Hans Silvester; 2001

[fairycosmos]

i really don’t have the time to be the way i am

[inritus]

The Cry, 1939. Photographed by John Gutmann.

[emmaklee]

Noriyuki Misawa, a world-renowned shoemaker, made this

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

[withbriefthanksgiving]

ID of 2 photos: An abandoned house on a prairie under the cloudy sky, and lacy curtains caught in the dry twigs of a bush, some distance from wooden outhouses. In both, the grass of the prairie is brown and dry, and the vast, overcast sky above is wide and empty.

End of ID.

[papayajuan2019]

pre-traumatic stress