Ode Aan De Schoonheid

Social justice should be rooted in love of others but it’s obvious a lot of people just weaponizing social justice to be bullies and borderline abusive under the guise of moral concerns

You & i are Earth 1661

Earthenware plate excavated in London

Museum of London

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the ’60s in Brussels (Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles) 1994, dir. Chantal Akerman

Fotografia: Spyros Rennt

Traditionally painted beehives near Pivka, Slovenia

Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, late 70’s

Anthropomorphic stone stelae or statue menhirs from Tyritáke, an ancient Greek town of the Bosporan Kingdom, situated in the eastern part of Crimea.

when i was a teenager and i learned about how light pollution and a certain billionare’s satellites obscure the night sky and all of its glory that humans have looked up and admired for hundreds of thousands of years, i always kept the mantra ‘they would steal even the skies from you’ hidden deep in my gut like a warning

but now i’m in my 20s and in the midst of a plague, having to watch corporate entities like space x and jeff bezos scramble for a piece of the infinite vastness of our universe while we’re all down expected to toil for their gains, live in an age of widespread sickness where we can’t be granted healing or rest without a profit, have every single piece of our lives cut up and dressed for sale like a butchered animal, from basic human needs to human expression. and now that same mantra comes to mind, but now instead of a cautionary warning it sits in my chest and my throat bc it has gone from a warning to a certainty. they will steal even the skies from you.

Jamie Bond, one of our resident Eastern screech owls, has molted all of the feathers on her head (except for one).  She looks like a quail.  I had to share this picture.

Click here to read a past blog about molting.

Girl with Beret

Lucian Freud

1951

joanna newsom “the things i say” / anne carson “plainwater”

when kafka said “all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding” and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”

anne carson

when anaïs nin said “i dont want worship. i want understanding”

When orwell said: “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry