Happy Ides Of March For Those Who Celebrate

by michelloup

The denigration of the humanities and the arts are a weirdly pervasive form of anti-intellectualism and self- commodification I find annoying to deal with some days

Decorated pages from the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University

People who do not care about learning history are missing part of their soul, as they do not cultivate the desire to preserve knowledge. They have resigned part of their existence to that of a common animal.

The concept of information being lost is one which directly wounds the collective human endeavor.

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

i joined a Christian Exploration Discussion Group (TM) before realizing that the topics are significantly more geared towards people who are like, new to the faith or asking basic questions about who jesus is or how prayer works, instead of uhhhhhhhh

me, local disaster girl, who started directly in on "why is the shepherd of hermas excluded from the new testament canon" and "if i could ask God one question, it would be: please explain hell, like the exact mechanics of it, and also explain how it can coexist with free will and a loving God"

Naruto girls in sliiiightly different hair styles

Unknown, Home movie, 1950s

utterly UTTERLY fascinated by Nathalie in the london special (and I say this as someone who wasn’t all that compelled by her before)

I’ve changed, she says - and proves it. When both the miraculouses she’s been looking for are right in front of her, she doesn’t take them. Doesn’t even try to. As though it doesn’t occur to her.

I’m not a mother, she says - but when she sees a child in pain, her first instinct is to hug them.

I’ll go to jail, she says - once again, arguably, taking the easy way out. That way, she doesn’t have to keep looking in Adrien’s eyes every day. She can feel her own guilt in peace, with no one else’s to mingle in with it.

Adrien will be okay because he has you, she says - to a child with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Nathalie doesn’t even try to lessen that burden; instead, she makes it all the more heavier.

I’m here to kill Gabriel, she says - and then what?