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A very beautiful image of these smiley blackfoot. It seemed everything was alright…

Photograph by Mary T. S. Schaffer in 1907.

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The traditional costume of Mong people. Credit to Trần Sơn.

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I think the point can only be understood by those who experience it, and even then you can never understand the reason. You just know how it changed you, for better or for worse.

I am thinking today about the meaning of suffering, and the diverse trials humans experience.

What is the point

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I am thinking today about the meaning of suffering, and the diverse trials humans experience.

What is the point

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Short Story “Ants”

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1924 Evening dress by Madeleine Vionnet; embroidery by Lesage

shaded green silk muslin, running stitch copper thread embroidery, sewn metal thread, sewn embroidery of white beads, green bugles and faceted rhinestones

(Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris)

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“ Cuckoo bee “ // rewilding suburbia

Thyreus waroonensis in search of amegilla nesting burrows

Music:  Gibran Alcocer - Idea 22

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Amazing and highly skill Senegal Traditional Kumpo dance | source                          

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when people talk about writing ‘the next Lord of the Rings’ they think it’s all about the wars and the languages and the histories, and Aragorn brooding in the corner of an inn and the Balrog roaring in Moria and the ruins of Isengard, and that’s how we got Game of Thrones and several dozen cheap fantasy knock-offs every year, not to mention whatever nonsense the Amazon show is going to produce

but Tolkien’s wars and languages and histories stemmed from his love of creating - of words and history and mythos - and that love infuses into everything he writes, and if you miss that then there’s no way in hell you can replicate it

and the people who want to write the next Lord of the Rings because they want to write the next epic don’t get that the story is about the hobbits’ soft and simple lives and Bilbo’s poetry and Sam’s love language being food and Eowyn discovering hope after depression and Gandalf making fireworks for hobbits even if he is a literal angelic being, and Aragorn weeping over Boromir’s body and Theoden’s kindness to Merry, and Beregond betraying his most prized orders to save Faramir, and the unlikely friendship between Gandalf and Pippin, and the even unlikelier friendship between Legolas and Gimli, and Sam and Frodo singing to each other in Mordor, and Boromir sacrificing himself for the hobbits, and Sam’s simple love for Rosie, and the restoration of the Shire, and the friendship of the Fellowship surviving down through the ages, and peace after war and hope in darkness, and the love between a gardener and a gentleman pacifist being literally the only thing that saves Middle Earth

and that is why people who try to recreate Lord of the Rings by starting with war always get it wrong. you have to start with the love, or it’s nothing: just another empty history

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Paleolithic humans

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The art of pie: before & after

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You ever have one of those moments where clothes touching your own skin and fingers placed too close together and blankets over your toes and ankles and hands just drives you crazy