Things That I Love

“What we’re seeing here is the religion of the stone age made manifest in the ground,” said Matt Leivers, the senior research manager at Wessex Archaeology. “Obviously we have no understanding of precisely what any of it meant, but the fact that time and again, over thousands of years, people are coming back to [the Stonehenge landscape] to build and rebuild and mark and remark this set of substantial events – it gives us an indication that this is religion. This is how they are understanding their place in the cosmos, how the universe works, what their deities are. “We don’t know what the sun meant to them. We don’t know whether they personified it as a deity. But the amount of effort that’s directed toward marking it and its movements leaves us in no doubt at all that this is a major religious event that’s inscribed over the whole landscape over millennia.”

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959

on midsummer. ☼

Blessed is Golden-Mouthed Apollon, the Far-Shooter.

It came out sooo cute😭

One more art for the 24h city Dionysia thing on lofter but bro got banned for nude so I put it here.

as the juice of the plum dripped down my chin, i imagined it represented the abundance and richness life has to offer and the sweetness that is in store. the comfort of song, light, creation, and the cultivation of things that nourish— the comfort of Apollon. it was good to spend the afternoon with Him. i always try to be receptive to what He has to teach me or remind me of in a given moment. today, it was an invitation to be mindful during something as mundane as chores, and a reminder of the interconnectedness of all things through Zeus-Helios and Apollon, revealed in something as simple as a plum offering.

i just love being alone