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my new fav coffee shop 🥺🤍

plants and books <3

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

sitting in the sun, writing, and feeling a little like i’ve seen the worst of my cold through

Edinburgh looks like a dark academia paradise

Decaf espresso, to go please 

Victorian houses in Toronto I’ll never afford: series 4

quiet mornings

Rooster Coffee House (Toronto)

... and another one

Gaia, by Luke Jerram, at The Old Painted Hall in London. The installation aims to create a sense of the Overview Effect (a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment) through mimicking the experience of astronauts passing the planet from afar. It was pretty beautiful at night, especially in the setting of the hall which is already so breathtaking. 

Essay season or who cares let’s do sudoku season

quiet autumn mornings in london 🍂🍁

VIDEO

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

planning the final paper for a seminar about matisse ☕️