When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

Death Pissing ~ Max Klinger (1880)

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Our power and our freedom lie in learning to neither negate our suffering nor romanticize it but to harness its catalytic power as a current passing through us to jolt us alive, then passing on and down into the ground of being. ~ Maria Popova

Five women

Cat’s Eyes @catseyelens.bsky.social shares a great shot for ForestFriday:

Nature's abstract art...

Erysimum capitatum, our Sand Dune Wallflower, blooming on the Kohler Mesa trail #nativeplants #FallbackFlowers #Fallback to May 20 🌿

I ran from love because I knew it would destroy me. -Kafka I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be. -Dostoevsky

Stop weaving a net about yourself: burst like a lion from the cage. Melt yourself down in his search: venture your life and your soul in the path of sincerity; strive to pass from nothingness to being, and make yourself drunk with the wine of God. - Hakim Sanai, from The Walled Garden of Truth

About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters: how well they understood it's human position; ~ W. H. Auden, Muse de Beaux Arts (December 1938)

Wassily Kandinsky — Four figures on three squares, 1943.

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." Emilio Pucci #BOTD Emilio Pucci Nintendo playing cards

📷 #photography #fotografia #natural_light

David Shrigley

Branches reflected on Allen Lake.

Did not return. The Shrike had taken her, lifted her newborn body in its palm of steel, and then stepped back into the radiance which even now pushed Sol away like some terrible, bright wind from the depths of the planet. Sol pressed against the hurricane of light,

“It's a universal law -- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ego, properly handled, is an invaluable tool for making our way in the world. We would not survive without it. The problem emerges when we mistake our tool for our Self. When we label the tool "I" and forget we are the hand holding the tool.

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (20th November) was at 7.31am, sunset is at 4.11pm

He haled from Boxland Thinking it was Summerland just feeling boxed in #haiku #gratitude

Ablenkung, ich brauche Ablenkung. ‚Fuchs im Schnee‘ 15x15 cm Gouache #kleineKunstklasse

Hello Darkness, my old Friend #BirdPhotography 🪶 #Vulture #BirdsOfMexico

The mushroom that wanted to be a flower…

Contra pop psychology Ego isn't a problem. One needs a strong ego to unfold one's unique Self. Fly the freak flag. Eff the ineffable. Rather Ego contents is at issue; what's in your ego wallet. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

#InsectThursday Let us learn from butterfly who count life in each and every moment and make the most of it🦋

In my next life I want the complete XX chromosome; so, who do I need to talk to if the emperor needs a new groove?

This is the the thread you had no idea you needed tonight but YOU ABSOLUTELY DO

'Blue Bird in Autumn' - Ito Sozan, ca. 1910's. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Possessed girl, 1924 #klee #paulklee

three egrets white overhead, then black against the sunset #haiku

This morning in Kyoto, along the Takano River🦌

Homage to Claudius Ptolemy (Palatine Anthology 9.577) I am a man: little do I last and the night is enormous. But I look up: the stars write. Unknowing I understand: I too am written, and at this very moment someone spells me out. -Octavio Paz (tr. Eliot Weinberger)

“Then the sailors say, "The halcyon days are here. Let us be glad. There is nothing to fear.” novusbestiary.com/halcyon

Country byways Flow states off of highways Vistas ungated #haiku

Diplacus aurantiacus, the Sticky Monkeyflower, blooming on Mt. Diablo, CA #nativeplants #FallbackFlowers #Fallback to May 19 🌿

This is out of topic field, but, for those who #Marvel, I want to say that Hela’s mother is surely Lady Death, aka the ‘Original Green Witch.’ And, when Thor is consciously dressing down Loki, disguised outwardly as Odin, everything that’s coming out of Thor’s mouth has shades of his father wound.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." -Vincent Van Gogh

😂! Might be this guy...

All passion aquiver bodies are pinned to the wheels Expands Eros’ station #haiku

‘What makes the desert so beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is it that it hides a well, somewhere. . .’ I was surprised by a sudden awareness of the sand’s mysterious radiation. When I was a little boy, I lived in a very old house and a legend told us that a treasure was buried there. To be sure

ㅤ The brutal word suppresses or at least masks the delicate and fugitive impressions of our individual consciousness. [...] It causes the intelligence to intervene in a region of the self that likes to remain obscure and unconscious. [...] ㅤ

ㅤ Spectacular display of Murmuration by Starlings over Sardinia — monamoni ㅤ

We report in the tall grass that remains when ferns have dried up and wilted. There is a skylark practicing its lilting flight across the meadows, the only moving part of this hushed morning. We follow the desire paths of foxes and boars along the trees, trying to dodge cobwebs.

Tulip #MacroMonday #Macro #MacroPhotography #Flowers #BloomScrolling

Creativity is remembering what it felt like to begin.