Platonically holding hands

Virginia woolf can step on me.

[k-luna]

my blog’s theme is me. a compilation of every single thing i love. every interest. every musing. and everything in between.

[firstfullmoon]

Ada Limón, from “The Geography of Moutains,” in Startlement: New and Selected Poems

[metamorphesque]

The Harvest, Vincent van Gogh

[metamorphesque]

this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 2: 1934-1939

[transviada-1996]

• Guerreiros do sol

[oncillaphoenix]

the spirit is willing but the flesh is experiencing technical difficulties

[emptyjunior]

not to be art snob guy but everyone knows that the Mona Lisa isn't the most valuable painting in the world cause he painted the woman so "beautiful" right. Like I just saw someone compare another painting (that was good!) but go this one should be celebrated as much as the Mona Lisa, look how beautiful it is- okay you know that's not why tho right.

Da Vinci stepped into a realm of anatomy and technique that no-one had ever done before. He Mastered light in a time where they were just painting the background and the subject the exact same focus.

What we understand about aperture, perspective, the human eye- Da Vinci was utilising before the scientific community even knew what a retina did. Do you understand how Crazy that is.

He invented a 3D stereoscopic picture in the 1500s. It would take two more centuries before physicists even arrived at the concept of stereography.

Do you understand how much math that is. A lot of fucking math man.

And I'm not even talking about colour or texture rn!!! He did it so we can't see the brushstrokes! It would require x-rays to view the work he did.

I just know sometimes people go oh why's this painting so special- it's very important to me that you know that the Mona Lisa was like an Atomic Bomb on the Renaissance art community. Almost EVERY piece of art you view today you could track it's influence back to what da Vinci did.

Like other art deserves its time in the spotlight, of course, but you know we didn't all gather around one day and go this lady is the prettiest this painting shall now be the Best. It's the most valuable painting in the world because..,. Well because it's the most valuable painting in the world.

[victusinveritas]

This is a real picture taken by photographer Keinichi Ohno. It's a single photo of a bird standing at the edge of some water with a wall and its reflection creating a fascinating optical illusion.

[alchemicalcodes]

Anaïs Nin

[thenextdoormatilda]

Gaza, Palestine.

[itscolossal]

Photographic Composites Document the Mesmerizing Flight Trails of Vultures, Crows, and Bats

[donttakethering]

from peter de potter’s 2024 zine, “a spartan for a single bed”

[eudaemaniacal]

this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

[rhube]

Read this - oh my goodness, this girl was wonderful.

[lrlamauthor]

Where can I read this in full?

[caitiesith]

It’s from  Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories, and that particular section is by Martha Carey Thomas who grew up to be a suffragist, linguist and renowned educator, as well as a badass lesbian.

[pien-art]

“Rest” Inspired by this painting called “Homecoming” by Bühler.

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prints available here !

[two-bees-poetry]

[wheres-the-bear]

Just read Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid, and immediately jumped into Macbeth by Shakespeare. Again, another divine timing on the timeline....

[shear-in-spuh-rey-shuhn-deactiv]

ERIN VEST All The Horses Of Iceland