cherrys and black coffee

Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus (tr. Oliver Taplin)

ca.1884

i’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day

16/10/2020 | I have so much work to do and I have a presentation this afternoon that I'm only halfway through making so I got up at 6am and I feel like shit

" There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. "

- Rilke, Advent (1898)

butterflies and household gloss on canvas 122 by 122 cm. 48 by 48 in. painted in 1996

All-sky view of the Leonids shower, 156 meteors were captured in this 4 hour image, 1998

it’s absolutely gorgeous outside - blue skies! sunshine! not a cloud to be seen! - but my desk is its own perfect brand of moody and marvelous while the sun shines on the opposite side of our little house

— Brené Brown 

Detailedit: L'étoile double ☆² (The Double Star), c.1881, Luis Ricardo Falero. | “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale

February 2016

Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

Warwick Castle Library, by Elena Kurlaviciute.