The Archangel Raphael Taking Leave Of The Tobit Family Painted By Rembrandt (1606 - 1669)

an angel that’s an animal

The All-Pervading by George Frederic Watts (c. 1887-90)

I just feel like it's very important to talk about the bad shit, too.

That you might face difficulties on your path, that there will be hours-days-weeks-months of silence - or can be, at the very least - and that religion won't come as a panacea for every issue or as a magical pill. You might still feel lost, and hurt, and scared, and lonely; and you might still hold faith. Not that you should, it's up to you. But the point is, "having faith" is not a synonym to "never having anything bad happen, ever" while encountering issues of any degree is not necessarily a proof of an uncaring God.

Phoebus  ☀️🌿🏹

Here’s Apollo of this year! I’m working on and off for this painting since Jan and decided to just let it go now, below cut are just my little process/commentaries

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Theodoros Angelopoulos: ‘Landscape in the Mist’ (1988)

“At last I have found my calling! My calling is love!”

— St. Therese of Lisieux (via sahumerios)

Linked in arms, dance with me. Wine was spilt, not for three. More for two, two linked in hand. Hand-in-hand, watch them go. Laughter like grapes, complex like vines. They dance to their own design. Around the fire, through the woods. Calm mundane moments, love not misunderstood. Hand-in-hand, linked in embrace.

{ for Dionysus and Ariadne }

Illustration by Ernst Stohr, from 'Ver Sacrum' Magazine, 1899