god is the space between us

L'Enlèvement de Psyché. Ceiling of the rotunda of the great gallery of the Château de Chantilly, by Paul Baudry (1885).

hi here are some of my favorite depictions of lord hermes / pan

Pan Comforting Psyche is a sculpture by Reinhold Begas that depicts the mythological figure Pan comforting Psyche after she loses her love, Eros

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, The Souls of Acheron, 1898

i literally cried to him for like 2 hours yesterday because i just felt like sm reverence that one day he will make my passing easier. then i realized i forgot to put his ring back on and i was like oh

Hermes and Infant Dionysus. The statue group represents the period following Dionysos' birth from Zeus' thigh, when the king of the gods handed the infant to Hermes in order to protect Dionysos from the wrath of Hera. In its complete form, Hermes holds his infant brother in his left arm and looks down toward him, while Dionysos looks up.

Mercury and Psyche (German: Merkur und Psyche) is an 1878 marble sculpture by Reinhold Begas, housed at the entrance to the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany.

“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”

“What happens if you add 6+1?”

“SEVEN”

“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>

“IT’S THE SAME!!”

“OK, what’s 7-4?”

“Three?”

“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>

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colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.