Winnie's Wend

Another wanderer.

[catchymemes]

[woodelf68]

All of this delights me to no end.

[neddea]

…I’m actually speechless.

I wasn’t looking for any information about railroads and now I’m left with that + knowledge about spaceships, Roman chariots and one (1) unexpected but welcome joke.

[songspinner9]

I am now trying to figure out how to share this (the age-appropriate parts) with my middle school history students. What a great chain of facts!

[sosuperawesome]

Heikala on Instagram

[fishstickmonkey]

Terminal in the Form of a Large Griffin’s Head with a Stag’s Head in its Beak Wood and leather; carved. H. 35 cm Pazyryk Culture. 5th century BC Pazyryk Barrow No. 2 (excavations by S.I. Rudenko), Altai Region, Pazyryk Boundary, the Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan Russia

State Hermitage Museum

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Model boat of Ukhhotep. Period: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty Date: ca. 1981–1802 B.C. Place of origin: Egypt, Middle Egypt, Khashaba excavations, 1910–11; Probably from Meir, Tomb of Ukhhotep Medium: Wood, paint

[quotemadness]

“You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.”

— Silas House

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Chelsea Wolfe, from Pain Is Beauty; “Ancestors, The Ancients,” rel. c. 2013

[just-shower-thoughts]

We are in a culture that demands authenticity from others….then punishes them when their authenticity doesn’t conform to the norms of the culture.

[wordsnquotes]

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

— Nagulb Mahfouz, Sugar Street

[winnieswend]

Sick with emotion

Dizzy with unrelenting

Sulfur in my throat

[books-n-quotes]

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks

[wordsnquotes]

“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don’t know. She probably didn’t even know I was there. But I’ll always love her. All my life.”

— Neil Gaiman, World’s End  |  @wordsnquotes

[winnieswend]

life is damaging

[winnieswend]

Did you know you can cry underwater

[winnieswend]

Mute me.

I do not want to be calmed.

I want the storm to continue surging in my head,

spilling surf from my eyes while tremors shake my shoulders.

I crave a continuation of this pure energy,

more than I’ve experienced in months.

Let me pulse with the fury and despair simultaneously,

allow this tempestuous tantrum to expand infinitely into the night and beyond,

where rosy fingers announce the dreaded dawn.

But all too soon the quaking subsides and sobs give way to gaping silence,

leaving behind an emptied crater too deep to fill with equally empty consolations.

So the chasm compounds.

The body submits at last to exhaustion,

and the mind is temporarily muted.

[wordsnquotes]

“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”

— Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep (via thelovejournals)

[winnieswend]

hello

[winnieswend]

I should have run like hell.

[quotemadness]

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Franz Kafka (via quotemadness)