“When I’m writing, I feel again what is apparently the only paradoxical certainty: that what gets in the way of writing is having to use words.” — Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

Out Flew the Moon by Kay Nielsen, 1914 East of the Sun West of the Moon

Patti Smith and PJ Harvey #WomensArt

"I’m not lighting fireworks this Fourth of July. I’ll light candles: for Palestine’s slain children, Iran’s slain children, America’s slain children. I’ll light candles for the world no one deserved." - Sarah Kendzior sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...

"... a poetic diagram is not merely a design: it must find a way to integrate the hesitations, the ambiguities which alone can liberate us from reality and permit us to dream; and it is here that the task that we have in mind takes on all its difficulty and all its value." - Gaston Bachelard

"'How does distance look?' is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edges of what can be loved. It depends on light." - Anne Carson

"Something in you that rises simply, beautifully, and unpredictably as the flight of a bird." - Robert Motherwell

"To be more human we need to experience the end of the world. We need to lose the world, to lose a world, and to discover that there is more than one world and that the world isn't what we think it is." - Helene Cixous

“All kinds of miracles could happen. [...] But someone has to teach you how to look at them, so you’ll know they are miracles. Otherwise, you don’t even see them. You pass right by them, and you don’t know that they are miracles. You don’t see them.” ― Mircea Eliade, The Forbidden Forest

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Wave Maine, 1926 #WomensArt

'Eclipse' by British environmental artist Liz McGowan, artwork created using Norfolk Razor shells  #womensart

Join Bumpy for his first dip of the day! Flanked by Keepers Festus and Jackson, our little hippo hurried out of his stable and made a beeline for his personal pool. He briefly considered a nap between Jackson's legs, thought the better of it, and dove right into the day, with a cute boop.

L'Astrophile #18 2017 • Laurent Millet

"I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination... The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows." - Duane Michals

US Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler in the studio, 1956. Photo by G. Parks #WomensArt

Forough Farrokhzad (trans. Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.)

"In the bright crystal of your eyes Show the havoc of fire, show its inspired works And the paradise of its ashes. - Paul Eluard

"Behind me, on the other side of where I’m lying down, the silence of the house touches infinity." - Fernando Pessoa

Double birthday salutations to W. B. Yeats + Fernando Pessoa — both fascinated by the occult, both with a penchant for heteronyms and both appearing in @WithEdSimon's essay on the ouija board writings of Pearl Curran (AKA Patience Worth): publicdomainreview.org/essay/g... #onthisday #otd

Italian labor unions, cultural workers’ associations, and grassroots collectives have joined the call for a national strike across the country’s arts and culture sector to demand better working conditions and show solidarity with Palestine.

collaboration with Long Cove Point, Chamberlain, Maine for my mom in 2014; her birthday is today, i miss her always... "everything changes, nothing is lost" - Ovid

Georgia O'Keeffe Shell and Old Shingle VI (1926)

Womensart blog: The Dark Dreams of Artist Chiharu Shiota womensartblog.wordpress.com?s=Dark+dreams

The key in hand, 2015, by Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota #Womensart

Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, A Terribly Strange Tree, 1949 #womensart

"We are only mouth. Who sings the distant heart that lingers whole in the midst of all things?" - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Mark Burrows

Kyosuke Tchinai 智内兄助 the dreaming tree

John Everett Millais, English (1829-1896), Cinderella, 1881, oil on canvas, 126 x 89 cm, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

walk through the underworld

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Colombian installation artist, Doris Salcedo, from the 'Uprooted' exhibition #WomensArt

Cole Swenson, Veer

Cole Swenson, Veer

One week with Bumpy! Like any baby, he sleeps deeply and often – especially snuggled up to his Keeper, with a tummy full of milk. Rescued last weekend after his mother died in a territorial fight, he now has a family with us and a wild future ahead. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/bumpy

When a society has no mythological anchor, no soul-affirming rites-of-passage, a society doesn’t know which story it’s in. When you lose the metaphor, a hand moves briskly to a rusty blade. We are adrift in an epidemic of the literal.~Dr. Martin Shaw

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. - W.S. Merwin