the olive grove and the ocean between

The planet Venus, with lute and emblem of Taurus, mural at Khara Khoto / Qara Qota, the "Black City," western Inner Mongolia, 13th century CE.

Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)

Bob Cronk

Hans Baluschek (German, 1870-1935, b. Wrocław, Poland, d. Berlin, Germany) - Illustration for Peterchen's Trip to the Moon, 1920 by Gerdt von Bassewitz, Paintings: Gouache, Watercolor

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien

Charles Baudelaire, from a poem featured in "Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Selected Verse and Prose Poems,"

Wdym my attention span is ruined bc of constant late night internet access and the short form videos and posts I allow it to shove in front of my eyes at all hours, and it will take an adjustment period to bring my mind back to normal and that involves making and re-making the conscious decision to put the phone down and remember how to live with the uncomfortable intrusive thoughts as I drift off to sleep and/or meditation

Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Self-Portrait as an Incomplete List of Mysteries," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

Poem(or ”the divine right of majorities, that illegitimate offspring of the divine right of kings” Homer Lea), E. E. Cummings

NGUYEN TIEN TRUYEN Crown of Fire Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

Falling Star - Witold Pruszkowski, 1884.