I just read this 7 times in a row and each time I think I got a little bit closer to seeing God
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ive spent the past 20 minutes trying to find the ny mag article about the young woman who moved to New Jersey to marry her estranged father my computers been loading pages sooo slowly and im stuck waiting for the last page to load it’s As if god is begging me to reconsider but I Won’t
I realize this makes me sound pro-incest obv I’m not I’m just darkly obsessed with the idea that you could meet an estranged relative as an adult and fall in love with them bc its surprisingly common
ive spent the past 20 minutes trying to find the ny mag article about the young woman who moved to New Jersey to marry her estranged father my computers been loading pages sooo slowly and im stuck waiting for the last page to load it’s As if god is begging me to reconsider but I Won’t
Guerrilla Gardening
Guerrilla Gardening is the act of illegally gardening in spaces that are not technically yours to garden, to make subversive statements, protests, or as a form of direct action. The idea goes all the way back to 1973!
In other words, guerrilla gardeners take unloved or neglected land and assign it a new purpose – to make things pretty or useful. Cities are full of waste land and unused public spaces which people walk past every day without noticing. Spaces which would look a lot better if they were green!
Some guerrilla gardeners prefer to work at night when they can be more discreet. Others are activists who’ll do so in broad daylight, when everyone can see what they’re doing. Some choose to grow flowers to make places brighter. Others choose to grow fruit or vegetables (though care should be taken not to grow anything edible in places where plants might absorb toxins).
I don’t know why I haven’t posted any guerrilla gardening things on this blog yet, and I think I should change that.
In the meantime, here are some links!
All of you straight people asking how you can support gays this pride month smh like the answer is so easy.. whenever you see a gay person you have to give them all your fucking weed
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“My mother was getting old and couldn’t work anymore. We never knew where our next meal was coming from. I had a job cleaning houses, but the pay was horrible. So when I was given the opportunity to come to Spain, I knew I had to take it. But the day that I left was horrible. I’d never been outside of Ecuador. I’d never been apart from my mother. Both of us were crying like children at the airport. I had no idea what I’d find when I arrived. My plan was to make a little money, come home, and start a business, maybe a food stand. Just a little something to make our lives easier. Soon after arriving in Spain, I found work cooking and cleaning at a summer camp. It was in the mountains. It was very isolated. But they were kind to me. They gave me extra jobs and allowed me to stay during the offseason. It was very lonely, but I spoke to my mother every day. And I was able to send home almost all the money I made. After seven years I received my residency papers, and I was finally able to go home for a visit. I’d wanted to surprise my mom, but she has high blood pressure, so I told her I was coming. She was standing in the doorway when I arrived. She held me for the longest time. Everything had changed. The house had been empty when I left. Now there was furniture: chairs, sofas, two beds instead of one. A new stove. A fridge full of food. A television, not even one with knobs. It had a real remote. We stayed up all night talking. I told her all about Spain. Eventually I was able to bring her here. We live together now. I see her every day. And I’m working as a home health aide. So if anything happens, I can take care of her.”
(Barcelona, Spain)
a meishan pig, a heritage breed originating in China
bad biitch thotty
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Today the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders treats us to an amazing look at the exquisitely beautiful structure of a luna moth wing viewed through a vintage microscope. These fascinating images were captured by Redditor Proteon using a 1951 American Optical Spencer microscope.
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Flora and Sylva
This week we are featuring Tiger Flower, a tale for children by Robert Vavra with paintings by Fleur Cowles and a preface by Yehudi Menuhin. It was published by Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow & Company in New York in 1969. The book tells the story of Tiger Flower, King of the Grass, who lives “where everything that should be small, is big, and everything that should be big, is small.” Robert Vavra wrote the story after being inspired by Fleur Cowles’s paintings.
In an author’s note, Robert Vavra wrote:
“When I first saw Fleur Cowles’s paintings in London, I was convinced they would make wonderful illustrations for a book. They had a rare imaginative quality about them that filled me with instant enthusiasm for such a project. But Fleur is an internationally known painter, not an illustrator, and I knew that she, like many painters, might not consent to illustrating someone else’s ideas. So that same evening, not wanting to leave her creatures behind me forever, I proposed that she send me about eight photographs of paintings she had done. And because she has an adventurous spirit, one that knows few boundaries, she agreed.
In the months that followed, small packages of photographs of these paintings reached me in Spain. They came from collections in Greece and France and South America and Italy and the United States and many other places. Fleur did not have an easy job tracking them down. But she did it. Then, laid out on my work table, those that appear in this book rapidly fell into order. It was not the ordinary way of making such a book – illustrations before text. But then, Fleur’s tiger was not a very ordinary cat.”
View more posts from our Flora and Sylva series.
–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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Some more Chinese snuff bottles - this time courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1) Millefleur, Thouand Flowers, (1644-1911). Opaque white glass with enamel and gilt decoration; jadeite stopper with ivory spoon.
2) Opaque pink glass shading to white; green glass stopper with enamel decoration, pearl finial, and ivory spoon (late 18th to early 19th century).
3) Egret and Lotus (18th century). Bubble-suffused glass overlaid with red glass relief decoration; white and green jade and red glass stopper with ivory spoon.
4) Copper with enamel decoration; copper stopper; ivory spoon (1715-1722).
5) Amethyst, tourmaline and amber stopper (1644-1911).
6) Crickets (1821-1850). Opaque white glass with enamel decoration; pink tourmaline and yellow glass stopper with ivory spoon.
7) Porcelain with enamel relief and gilt decoration; green-stained ivory stopper with ivory spoon (1736-1795).
8) Porcelain with overglaze enamel and gilt decoration; jadeite stopper (1736-1795).
9) Mythical figures and Creatures (19th century). Porcelain with underglaze red and blue decoration; metal lid.
10) Blossom, Pine Trees with Butterfly (1767-1860). Colourless glass with enamel decoration; tourmaline and glass stopper with ivory spoon.
Images and text information courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.
buses are so iconic they’re like “this little number tells you where I’m going hop on if you want idc” and everyone at the bus stop is like “wig”
were really running out of posts to make huh
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