#smallness

[giftofgabber]

Plz consider the smallness of an ant when it is being crushed 🤔

[juliaknz]

KAZUO SHINOHARA THE UNCOMPLETED HOUSE, 1970 Tokyo, Japan

[quidam-vir]

Yeah English has a lot of Latin in it, the real problem is that it doesn't have enough.

I am forced (by popular convention) to use the word 'smallness' (a truly despicable abomination) instead of the awesome, Latin-derived 'parvity'

The lack of usage since its coining in the 1600s is truly unfortunate.

[vox-ex]

“She gets the sense sometimes that her inhales and exhales resemble speech.”

Han Kang, Greek Lessons

“Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means “the dropping of petals.” The world has dropped its petals.”

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.”

Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

“Maybe we are a weather system—condensation and evaporation: we are together, we look at one another, we touch one another, we condense, we come together, we make love, we fall asleep, we wake and revert to our strange bond, a quiet weather system with no natural disasters.”

Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume, Book I

[orthodoxicons]

31. Be simple, hidden, quiet, and small. (The Holy Fathers say: “If you want to be known by God, seek not to be known by people.” And again, it’s simplicity, hiddenness, quiet, smallness.)

55 Maxims of the Christian Life, Fr. Thomas Hopko

(See the full list of maxims here and here)

[freckletini]

drawing is back baby 🐙

[macrolit]

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) American astronomer, educator