“I think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.”
Charles Bukowski - Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
📸 My own.

Kremena Chipilova (Bulgaria) - "At Evening Hours"
#paradigmadarte #womenpainters #oilpainting #birds #bulgarianartist

"The robins were singing vespers [...], filling the golden air with their jubilant voices."
(L. M. Montgomery)

Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, circa 1608. #Art #HumanCreativity

Something to make you smile this fine Friday with such gorgeous colours. Emile Aziz. ‘The Girl With a Dove’. #Art #TurkishArt

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
-Milan Kundera.
#Dogs #Doggos
📸 My own.

“We should keep our feet on the ground to signify that nothing is beneath us, but we should also lift up our eyes to say nothing is beyond us.”
- Seamus Heaney.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity

"Licht im Stillleben".
Credits: Elena Wuest
German artist. #Art #GermanArtist

"As The Wind Blows By”, 2020.
Credits: Mark Grantham Canadian Painter.
Oil on Canvas - 10 x 8 in. #Art #CanadianArtist

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo F. Buscaglia

Matthias Menne
(Contemporary German painter)
Winter Wanderlust, 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
80 × 60 cm
Private Collection. #Art

The Vix Krater, a 6th century BC Greek bronze vessel imported to the Celts. Discovered in Bourgogne/France in the tomb of the “Lady of Vix,” a Celtic princess. It remains the largest known metal vessel of Western antiquity. #Art #Sculpture

Coming to the end of the Easter everyone. I'm always struck by the beauty of architecture - regardless of denomination. #oneworld #letsjustbefriends #ballinasloe

“To the heart in you, don’t be afraid to feel. To the sun in you, don’t be afraid to shine. To the love in you, don’t be afraid to heal. To the ocean in you, don’t be afraid to rage. To the silence in you, don’t be afraid to break.”
- Najwa Zebian

C.S. Lewis #Fairytales #Life

“somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” - Carl Sagan

An Earthset, captured by the Artemis II crew from the Orion Integrity spacecraft during Monday’s flyby.Credit...NASA. #Exploration

A statue in Finland titled: "Read even if you are drowning." Interesting perspective - if not a little useless unless reading on strategies to survive! #Art

Gone Fishing: Silver”. This work by NCAD student Teresa Murphy forms part of The Weight of Words- a striking new exhibition exploring the craft, symbolism, and storytelling of traditional Akan gold weights from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
📍 National Museum of Ireland.
#Art #Ireland

A view from the Augustinian Church (late 1800s) in Galway City on Easter Sunday morning. #Easter #Ireland #Photography
📸 My own.

May you all find something beautiful this Easter Sunday morning. In your homes, your gardens but, most of all, in your hearts. #EasterSunday

Storm on the Island by Irish poet, Seamus Heaney.

"leaves and branches
Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale..."

Harry Clarke’s window (minus the tracery) which features as its principal image Ecce Homo, with smaller scenes from Christ’s ministry. Made in 1924 for St Brigid’s Church of Ireland, Kilbride near Arklow, Co. Wicklow. #StainedGlass #Art #Ireland

"To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own."

~ Jack Kornfield

[Art: Geafar Dia]

"Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon."
Maxine Lee
📸 My own. #Photography #Quote

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
John Grogan - Marley and Me. #Dogs #Doggos

Short books under 150 pages you can read in a day:
‘The Metamorphosis’, by Franz Kafka. 📕📕📕📕

Short books under 150 pages you can read in a day:
‘The Little Prince’, by Antonine de Saint-Exupery. 📕📕📕📕

Short books under 150 pages you can read in a day:
‘The Old Man And The Sea’, by Ernest Hemingway. 📕📕📕📕 #Books

Short books under 150 pages you can read in a day:
Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck. 📕📕📕📕 #Books

Séipéal Mhuire gan Smál, Inis Meáin (one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway). -Harry Clarke studio. #StainedGlass #Art #Ireland

Walking the doggo on Inis Mór on the Aran Islands on a sunny Saturday morning. #Doggo #IslandLife #Ireland