Forest Fabric | William Morris

Photography by Frida Vega via instagram

Frida Kahlo, Photo by Gisèle Freund,1948

Vogue x Hockney

And Then We Danced (2019) + mirror reflexions

Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world. Read more here.

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the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

kurt solmssen

Bookish Asks

1. What are you currently reading/what is the last book you read?

2. Second hand or brand new?

3. What is your current recommendation for anyone looking for something to read?

4. Go to genre on a rainy night?

5. The book you can finish and then immediately start again without hesitation?

6. Approximately how long does it take you to finish a book?

7. Favorite series when you were a kid.

8. What’s your favorite “elusive” series? (i.e., the series that most people haven’t heard of)

9. If you had to be shoved into a book only armed with what you know about the universe and nothing else, which book would you choose?

10. Your favorite book that you read for school and ended up loving?

11. What’s your least favorite book that you’ve ever read?

12. A book you want to see made into a TV show/movie (or, if its already been adapted but you didn’t like it, what you’d do differently)

13. What character would you play in a movie adaption of your current favorite book?

14. What kind of character are you? (The protag, the quirky sidekick, the tech geek, etc)

15. Have you ever started reading a book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving? What was it?

16. Old book smell or new book feel?

17. What is the oldest book you own?

18. Last book you purchased and why?

19. What kind of book genre are you living in right now?

20. What’s your favorite position/place to read in?

21. Beverage of choice when reading?

22. Music or no music while reading? Classical, ambient noise, or pop?

23. Have you ever read anything by an independent/self published author? If so, would you recommend it?

24. Bookmarks, creased edges, memorization, or random scraps of things?

25. Audio book or physical book?

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!