The Path Less Traveled

A bookshop in Syria, 2006

Two girls wearing shawls pose for a portrait in Huwara, Palestine, 1926. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

Irakl Khvedaguridze, 81, is the only licensed doctor across 386 sq miles of mountainous region, serving a dwindling community of Tush people in north-east Georgia. During the summer and early autumn, he gets to his patients on his white horse, Bichola. When the snow gets too deep, Khvedaguridze converts his shoes into skis using birch planks nailed with wide canvas. Once the snow rises above his knees, he can only travel on foot (x)

Traditional lanterns during Ramadan lighted up a market in Gaza City, Palestine, on June 5th 2016. Mohammed Asad/APA Images/Zuma Press

Glastonbury Tor, Glastonbury (England).

- Julian K. Jarboe, quoted in Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

[Text ID: “We are given the trees so we can know what God looks like. And rivers so we might understand Him.”]

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Text ID: I’ve always preferred Cain. / His angry / loneliness, his / lack of mother’s / love, his Christian / sarcasm: “Am I / my brother’s keeper?” / asks his brother’s murderer. / Aren’t we indeed / the keepers of our dead?

Through a Glass Darkly (1961), dir. Ingmar Bergman

Kate Summerscale, from 'The Haunting of Alma Fielding'

by Laura Woermke

'The Madonna of the Roses' and 'The Madonna of Pietà' by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Full Moon Over Waldo by Gary Horsfall

Kobayashi Kiyochika, Firefiles at Ochanomizu, 1880