The high seas, the vast waters beyond any one country’s jurisdiction, cover nearly half the planet. On Friday, a hard-fought global treaty to protect the “cornucopia of biodiversity” living there cleared a final hurdle and will become international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

'Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […]. ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four #BookSky

It was a disgrace to see the Donald in Europe today, on a red carpet.

"We are becoming like cats... enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social... our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures." ― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories #BookSky

(Meanwhile in Poetry) The cat comes into the room. I put the cat out. The cat comes in again. ― Robert Frost, ‘The Cat’ #Poetry

“You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.” ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666: A Novel #BookSky

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower." -- Roberto Bolaño, 2666: A Novel #BookSky #Photography Harry Gruyaert

“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.” ― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union #BookSky #NobelPrize

#Music Max Richter, On The Nature Of Daylight youtu.be/InyT9Gyoz_o?...

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down." ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale #BookSky

“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient #BookSky #FilmSky

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings #BookSky

Thus it is; we are stuck in filters.

"L'art n'est pas chaste." ― Pablo Picasso #Painting Les Desmoiselle d’Avignon (1907) Naughty cubism for you.

Silence is banished from our screens. #Painting Lyonel Feininger (1929), Stiller Tag am Meer III. Nautical cubism for you.

“I’d never thought negatively about my future until that moment. I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your own potential.” ― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel #BookSky

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism #BookSky

The Poetry of Earth. #Words Murmuration /ˌməːməˈreɪʃn/ noun a large gathering of starlings creating intricate patterns in flight.

“The outlaws, the heroes, the wanderers, the lovers, the saints, the persecuted, the outcasts, the bewildered, the ecstatic ― these are among those who have sought out the forest’s asylum in the history… Without such outside domains, there is no inside to dwell.”

"Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it make its way for me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it." ― Simone de Beauvoir #Music Melody Gardot, Once I was loved youtu.be/Rw7QqhGRk9Y?...

"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." ― The Revelation of Sonmi-451) #BookSky David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas #Art (Digital painting), Sara Brusco.

The Butterfly effect.

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!" ― Yuri Gagarin (1961)

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ― Lao Tzu

#Photography Raul Cañibano

#Photography Małgorzata Sajur

"That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one’s passion." ― Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein #BookSky #Photography Pierre Jamet (1933), France

#Photography Édouard Boubat (1948), Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade. #Poetry From "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William B. Yeats #Photo Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

Ein Dröhnen: es ist die Wahrheit, selbst unter die Menschen getreten, mitten ins Metapherngestöber. ― Paul Celan, Ein Dröhnen #Poetry

#Photography Pierre de Vallombreuse

[…] My window-sill is level with the faces in the street— Drifting past, drifting past, To the beat of weary feet— While I sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street. […] — Henry Lawson, Faces in the Street #Poetry

#StreetPhotography Sam Ferris

“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins #BookSky

“Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" […] ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando #BookSky #Photography Bernard Plossu

“It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.” ― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green #BookSky #Photography Brassaï, Pierre et Paulette, Paris.