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[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[diana-andraste]

Love Magic, The Cologne Master, 1470-1480

Oil on wood

[sadnessdollart]

Daedalus and Icarus, Detail.

by Orazio Riminaldi, (c. 1625)

[simena]

Artemisia Gentileschi (detail)

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself” by Charlotte Eriksson⁣

[undinesea]

Gardenia by Kumiko Sekiguchi

[jaded-mandarin]

Jan Brueghel The Younger. Detail from Adam And Eve In Paradise, 1630.

[weltenwellen]

For years I lived Maggie Smith

[rosieandthemoon]

Richard Kühnel, 1895

[memories-of-ancients]

Ivory diptych sundial, crafted by Hans Droschel the Elder of Nuremberg, Germany, dated 1584

from The Jagiellonian University Museum

[speciesbarocus]

Pope Innocent III - De sacro altaris mysterio (c. 1414).

[petaltexturedskies]

July, let your warmth thaw whatever is left of our winters. Let our windows break themselves open to inhale the sea. Let afternoon naps, and outdoor showers, and books we can't put down, make us forget about mondays. about schedules. About heaviness. Let our dinners be late, and long, and filled with belly laughter. Let sea shells be our telephones. Let this long light never end.

Emory Hall, "Prayers for July"

[aperfumedpearl]

belle epoque broche de diamantes 1910

[petaltexturedskies]

I wear perfume to intensify who I am. That's why I can't use fragrances that go against me. Wearing perfume is an instinctive wisdom. Perfume is an art. And like all art, it requires some self-knowledge.

Clarice Lispector

[aqualumiere]

- Auguste Rodin, L'éternelle idole (Pierre Vallet)

[thomasmartinnutt]

Richard Long. Connemara Sculpture, Ireland, 1971

[nemfrog]

“Olive scions one year old growing on a 30 year-old stump.” Olive culture in California. 1960.

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