not some wounded angel after all

we should be belted in, but you still can’t get beyond your skin, and they’re trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

[wavesofundoing]

Bakkhai, Anne Carson (translator's note)

[wavesofundoing]

Bakkhai, Anne Carson

[mothprincess]

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[henk-heijmans]

Colorful field on the plain of Castelluccio di Norcia in springtime during an explosion of blossoming, Italy, 2013 - by Roberto Bettacchi, Italian

[nobrashfestivity]

Raghib Al-Isfehani ( Abul-Qasim al-Hussein bin Mufaddal bin Muhammad)

from ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt (The wonders of creation, or literally, Marvels of things created and miraculous aspects of things existing) by Zakriya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (circa 1203-83) is among the best known texts of the Islamic world. It is often referred to as “The Cosmography.“ 

The work begins with an introduction, and is followed by two sections, the first on supra-terrestrial, the second on terrestrial creatures. Al-Qazwini concludes his work with a section on monsters and angels. The genre of Aja'ib al-makhluqat (The wonders of creation), of which al-Qazwini’s work is the most famous example, includes texts in Arabic and Persian that describe the marvels of the heavens and the earth. Numerous manuscripts of al-Qazwini’s work have survived, as have several Persian and Turkish translations of illustrations.

[matgioi]

Remy Charlip

[nobrashfestivity]

Kiyoshi Yamashita, Nagaoka fireworks display

Nicknamed “The Naked General”,  Yamashita used the chigiri-e method of sticking torn pieces of colored paper together to depict the scenery he saw on his travels. 

[circus-sonata]

by Kusukazu Uraguchi / 浦口楠一 From the book: Ama Diver Women of Japan / 志摩の海女, 1981

[kafkasapartment]

Siena Rain, c. 1960. Bernhard Wübbel. Chromogenic print

[catwalkcats]

In Residence: Rose Uniacke - inside the interior designers London home

[filmnoirsbian]

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

[byhsa]

[nobrashfestivity]

Helen Frankenthaler, Deep Sun

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[real-language-facts]

couples costume idea: signifier and signified

[firstfullmoon]

Leila Chatti, “I Too Was Worthy,” in Wildness Before Something Sublime

[havingapoemwithyou]

The Way Things Have Been Going Lately by Ada Limón

[yama-bato]

Carol Sawyer, Last Known Photograph of Natalie Brettschneider, 1986