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my ancient mama

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I just made asparagus from the garden and it tasted Amazing!!!

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let's be a geometric figurine with mama

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people will conceptualize themselves and other humans as “sacks of meat” then wonder why they have a bad self-image. ermm

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Francesco Zuccarelli, 1702-1788

Bellona, Roman goddess of war, 1728, print on paper (after a sculpture by Michelangelo)

V&A South Kensington, London Inv. 25530:7

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Shoot - Michel Buylen.

Belgian, b. 1953 -

Oil on panel , 18 x 13 cm.

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Przewalski's horse Equus ferus przewalskii

Observed by mani_raab, CC BY-NC

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She's my cutie PIE (proto-indo-european)

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Received a 3-month art stipend I applied for!!!

#neverkillyourself

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there are books out there - many good - that cater to your extremely esoteric interests. #never kill yourself

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(crawls on all fours with blood drenched on me) I have to do arts and crafts

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two letters today! atticus has written to cicero—twice! cicero dithers about where to go! atticus begs cicero to stay alive and cicero does, but doesn't enjoy it! cicero does not enumerate all the miseries he has faced, but he could! nobody has ever had better cause to wish for death! cicero is anxious about meeting his brother when he is so miserable! cicero cries a lot while writing to terentia! he despairs over what his family should do! cicero says he will endure for his children—even though the situation is unendurable! and i added 6 new entries to my cicero suicidality spreadsheet!

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EtruscanCulture VII Century BC, an extraordinary Bronze Sculpture of a mythological Siren, from the ancient Necropolis of Strozzacapponi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

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Hii! What book have you finished and what have you just started? I‘d love to know! I have made a similar experience with reading as you, so I am happy that you’re doing better and finding joy in it again!

Thank you!!! I am so happy that you too have been able to find back to joy in reading!!! And you and I are not the only people I've heard such stories from either. I swear I see at least more people reading on public transport around me as well. This has been a very good feeling and I wish it on others as well.

I just finished No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami and shed a noble tear upon reading the last page. I really really loved this book, a portrait of Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein, but also of so many of the women around them (and men) especially in the circles connected to Paris in the first half of the 20th century. I really enjoyed how it was written, getting to know both individuals, anecdotes and such painting a bigger picture. A book I would recommend! The other book I finished was Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig, this year I've been working on improving my German and it just felt really good to read a whole narrative in the language and the last 30 pages went by almost without noticing because I got so wrapped up in the story.

And now I've just begun Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck! She's an author I've wanted to read for years now, but I've been hesitant about reading her in translation when I do in fact know German. But luckily I've capitulated or it would've taken even more years before I'd pick up one of her books. I really love the way this book is written (so far) the language and descriptions have really captivated me and I look forward to savour being in this book.

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read a most wonderful book to the end yesterday then finished the last 30 pages (in German, a language I let collect dust on a shelf for many years!) of another book I've been reading and today I picked up a new book and found myself drawn into its pages sometimes I have to remind myself that only a couple of years ago the mere act of reading through an entire paragraph, let alone reading enough in one sitting to turn over the page and then continue reading was like a herculean task in its demand and difficulty. A reminder that some things do actually get better and when you regularly fill your life with books even deep melancholia must admit the positive impact it has on your life.

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La Femme Chic à Paris, 1922 🤍

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Alice [B. Toklas] was under five feet tall and her legs dangled when she sat. She had grey eyes, dark hair and a moustache, which the editor of House Beautiful said made other faces look naked by comparison.

- Diana Souhami, No Modernism Without Lesbians