the whispering of stars

i touch nothing but the heart of things / i hold the thread.

[vanwinkle11]

Tide pools along the Lost Coast Trail on January 30, 2023

[desertarchipelago]

James Baldwin

[intopermanence]

Where was she? In her own head, like a dream; in the bellows of her lungs. What was she? Perhaps a child. Perhaps a corpse. Perhaps a fern in the forest in the storm; a singing bird.

Lorrie Moore, from Birds of America: Stories: “Terrific Mother”

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Bamboo forest in Sichuan, China by 太湖老银鱼，Gx

[petaltexturedskies]

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies,

Oscar Wilde in a letter to lord Alfred Douglas, written c. May 1895 featured in The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold swivel ring with jasper scarab inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III, Egypt, 1480-1425 BC

from The Louvre

[quotespile]

“And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”

— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[shisasan]

“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

[uroko]

장소: 연희동 Yeonhui-dong, Seoul

[biomaterial]

new kind of guy dropped

[3liza]

he's unironically 100% correct and i will hear nothing against him

[deathandmysticism]

Ichnographia emblematica triplicis ad Deum Tri-unum mysticae viae, 1779

[missmirrorselfie01]

[seraphinesaintclair]

Seraphine Saintclair, Musings

[misswallflower]

“Visible Light” series by Alexander Harding

[beyonceisstraight]

“I used to worship inside temples, till I saw that everything around me was holy. Waterfall, stone, grass. All pure spirit. Now like a mad man, I worship everything I see, like you.”

— Jai Kumar (Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love 1996)