Tim Storrier. The Night Run.

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights #BookWormSat Art- Robert McGinnis

The more patient, quiet, and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and unerringly a new revelation can enter us, and the more we can make it our own. Later on when it manifests in our response to another person—we will feel it as belonging to our innermost being. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

John Lennon October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980 ❝Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.❞‬ 📷 Yoko Ono

"I don’t know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you’re back again." ― Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems

Jessica Rottschafer - Nights In White Satin youtu.be/2iivYe_oWIA?... Patricia Gleason Photography

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” Henry Miller

To me you are a wave; never here, never there! You are –still- nowhere! Forough Farrokhzad ( The Wave ) Le Onde - Ludovico Einaud ( Cello Cover ) youtu.be/ADFpo4jCECk?... 📷 Bobby Baker

Sophie Zelmani - Stay With My Heart youtu.be/zSpv7dIiTt4?... 🎨 Ludmila Gorbunova

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Auguste Rodin Triton and Nereid, 1893

“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237) Magnificent, large, star-forming emission nebula in Monoceros ~5,200 light-yrs from Earth. Central star cluster emits radiation that ionizes surrounding gas, causing it to glow. Nebula is known for its rose/rosette shape. 1 hr of data, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

I saved all my best words just in case I found you

youtu.be/cPtw8Pl_fn0?... THE POGUES 'Lullaby Of London'

“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.” (Musil, The Man without Qualities)

To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light. Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can’t be related to another person. Gao Xingjian (Soul Mountain) © Unknown

Don’t forget to look up

Ça fait mal d’apprendre à quitter ceux qui nous quittent,d’apprendre à les aimer en silence, le dos tourné, les yeux baissés. De devoir apprendre à son coeur la force de se vider tout en demeurant habité. Apprendre à pleurer en souriant, à s’en aller en aimant Philippe Besson 📷Jessica Lindgren Wu

migration

Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican (1917-2011), The Night of the 8th, 1987, oil on canvas

I never sleep days before a full moon. I wander the night air. Ph. Francesca Woodman

The power of fragile beauty. Hélène Grimaud plays Beethoven with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡ youtu.be/VuVBmCiPL-0?...

"Deep rivers run quiet" Haruki Murakami 📷 Hengki Koentjoro

This day felt larger than all the others, as if it had swallowed a year and covered its mouth.

Sean William Randall Those Distant Lights, 2015.

People say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines & lightning bugs & ginger beer & starlight & sea coasts & Renoir paintings & Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos & fog banks & foxes playing in snow. ~ Owl at the Library‬ #Painting, Renoir.

I couldn't resist sharing this beautiful snowy print of Mount Fuji in winter for #LegendaryWednesday. 🎨'Mount Fuji After Snow from Tagonoura Bay' - Kawase Hasui, 1932. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

‚Vielleicht ist Sehnsucht die Kunst, ein Noch-nicht mit der Intensität eines Schon-immer zu fühlen‘

I hate when no song feels right

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. ~Charles Bukowski

. an unfilled moon how long does grief last #haiku #poetry .

We are all screaming on the inside.

Painting by David Inshaw ‘Winter, St Ives’ 2015. Oil on canvas. Size 76 x 76cm.

#DecemberDuets #MusicChallenge Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo 🎶 A quiet life youtu.be/cnn42LLdNJw?...

There is another world, and it is in this one. Paul Éluard

Memories will always remain It is how they touch us haunt us and move us that changes

“Sometimes a tall column rose up solitary in a waste land, as a great thought may spring from a soul ravaged by time and sorrow.” — Chateaubriand, René (tr. Irving Putter)

Billy Joel "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" youtu.be/dcnd55tLCv8?...

Et mon cœur, si silencieux, Nul ne sait ce que j'y ai enfoui. Anna Akhmatova 🎨 Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch Reitz

A clumpy galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey. It is at redshift 0.75 (lookback time 6.78 billion years) with coordinates (52.88417, -28.04722). 111 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Bette Davis Eyes -Kim Carnes tidal.com/browse/track...

Défier l’insouciance et planer spirituellement 📷 Lewis W Hine, 1931

I am all for miracles because the universe we live in is far richer than we can imagine. The alchemy of stars, hydrogen atoms seemingly awakening to explore themselves, the scale and depth of everything around us... nothing we know is short of a miracle.