Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) dir. Audrey Wells

Jamie Varon

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

Never seen this before: a man in the moon diamond. Probably mid 20th century, and set into a minimal platinum and gold mounting I designed for it. (online now)

polish designs of matchbox labels

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway Mürren, Switzerland

[text ID: I have a terrible clarity of mind at times, when nature is so lovely these days, and then I’m no longer aware of myself and the painting comes to me as if in a dream.]

1. Fresh picture of the spinning Phantom Galaxy by the new James Webb Space Telescope *• 2. Nautilus shell cut in half. | Golden ratio.

via reddit

An intense bloom of Pycnoporus sanguineus, a reishi lookalike that has also seen traditional use as a medicine. Aboriginal Australians reportedly chewed this fungi to cure mouth ulcers and other oral disease. Extracts from this mushroom have industrial applications in dye degradation.

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Abiah Root (August 1851)