When I’m feeling low, I can always go do something for someone or something else. It works every time. A day unfolds into an unknown day I have never seen before, as M. Oliver offers. Maybe being useful is the only reality there is in such a context? Maybe bei... https://thisness.one/post/2026-04-16
Grief doesn’t get smaller. you just eventually build more stuff around it.
"But at this point, we can see War for what it really is: as the flailing and obviously doomed effort of a declining power to make its peculiar combination of bureaucratic war machines and speculative financial capitalism into a permanent global condition." . - David Graeber
Speculative Financial Capitalism is always part of the equation.
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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
— Dylan Thomas
Through explanation, you are not freed from suffering; the suffering is still there, only you have covered it over with words and conclusions, either your own or those of another. —Krishnamurti
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
— Kahlil Gibran
Beautiful
Spring, held in gentle blue.
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#photography #spring #nature #blogpost #silentsunday #写真
In spirituality, the following law often seems to me to be verifiable: the more people cluck and chuckle, proclaim and fret over an experience, the more insignificant and/or fabricated it actually is.
— Notes & Silence
Good evening.
Well-written does not equal interesting, appealing or enjoyable.
Id like to end put in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they are not hurting anyone insofar as the time they take off from work is spend with friends and family enjoying and caring for those they love. They are probably improving the world more than we acknoledge.
Being unemployed is not always a bad thing.
Good morning.
A life that makes a good story tends to be a life that was awful to live.
— Joan Westenberg, Why I Quit ‘The Strive’
Meaningful things
Happen quietly
Without fanfare or performance
Acts away from the spotlight
Of the ego or the crowd
Deeds done
Doer invisible
…dopamine fires for the chase, not for the catch.
— Joan Westenberg, Why I Quit ‘The Strive’
Zen is the practice of simplicity and silence. This involves encountering difficulty and frequenting noise.
— Notes & Silence
Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller was a “master of light”.
Whilst working with Wim Wenders (he shot 12 of the German director’s features including Summer in the City, Alice in the Cities, The American Friend and Paris, Texas), Müller took polaroid photographs.
Have spent much of the day tearing my arms and legs to shreds using only nature’s finest overgrown brambles and gorse while knee deep in a freezing stream.
Get back to nature they said…
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1961
Pen and ink and wash on wove paper
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
Good evening.
Just a small note, in case anyone didn't know.
I keep a little space on ko-fi. It's 3€ a month and I share things there I don't post elsewhere:
Monthly haiku & photo (there's 7 already!), some behind the scenes, wips, sneak peeks and occasional ramblings.
#photography #animals #dog #chihuahua #写真
Good afternoon.
Good morning.
The Three Ages of Woman (1905) charts life's progression: an innocent sleeping infant; a radiant mother cradling new life; and finally, an exhausted and isolated elder. Klimt's stark treatment mirrors Freudian Vienna's preoccupation with mortality and decay.
chasing shadows
