Scintillating

Kay. UK. Enjoying books and journals and that indomitable human stuff.

[agroterablog]

the field trips

[vampiricpages]

[phantomtomes]

Im going on an adventure. 🌿

[aftertherainstopss]

I hope you never outgrow being excited by bookstores, listening to the rain, flowers and finding the perfect mug.

[artyartymo]

[writopodes]

Savouring some pieces of War and Peace

[tashastark1]

I started studying the basics of philosophy. I am currently reading A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry, and it's pretty good for beginners! ​​

[petitelavande]

One evening by the river

[writopodes]

Blessed that Tolstoy tacked that essay on free will and power onto the end of War and Peace just for me for getting through the rest of it 🙏

[antiquedeuce]

cabinet of curiosities 🦇

[rinibayphoto]

[marnotes]

[longstoryshort-143]

the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home

[penandpaper-love]

June 30, 2026

I love summer but I can't stand the heat. I'm really struggling with the temperature and it makes me slow and tired. Today was a crazy day at work and I'm looking forward to the holidays... Our school is not built for heat, it makes teaching unbearable. The students can't concentrate and me neither.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"On she went, mixing up trivial details with the innermost secrets of her heart,"

~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (tr. Anthony Briggs)

[studylatin]

[mylastpage]

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

In the first case it was necessary to renounce the consciousness of an unreal immobility in space and to recognise a motion we did not feel; in the present case it is similarly necessary to renounce a freedom that does not exist, and to recognise a dependence of which we are not conscious.