Anna Akhmatova, From “Lot’s Wife,” Featured In “A Treasury Of Russian Verse,”

“I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection

Broche “Pensées” de René Lalique en or, émail et diamants (circa 1903-04) à l'exposition “Végétal” orchestrée par Chaumet à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, juin 2022.

Pray for Tonga 😭

Anatomy Lesson

Florence, Italy

my moms org that increases native representation in the stem field

native american rights fund

have a good day today

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN INFINITE NUMBER OF TIMES WORSE THAN IF THEY KNOCKED DOWN THE FUCKING STATUE OF LIBERTY TO MAKE SPACE FOR A NEW LANE IN A HIGHWAY. IF THEY TOOK THE NOTRE DAME APART.

Victorian government cut down a centuries old sacred tree today, hoping to use the announcement of easing lockdown as a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact they’re actively working to destroy living Aboriginal history so commuters can cut 3 minutes off their travel times

That overwhelmingly safe feeling when you’re sitting in the back seat of the car at night while your parents drive. Maybe you’re on your way home, maybe you’ve just finished up a long day on the road during a family vacation and you drift in and out of sleep while the yellow street lights ebb in and out over your head. I wish that feeling lasted forever.

Le Bonheur, 1965

Chess isn’t always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful. It was the board I noticed first. It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it. And it’s predictable, so if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)