the ugly earring

      “He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly – yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think … Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival – yet that was what they did to their children.”

-ayn rand

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(amazingness created by julia deville)

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

~Albert Einstein

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listening to dead love .

You who loved me with the falseness
Of truth - and the truth of lies.
You who loved me-beyond
Anything!-Over the edge!
You who loved me beyond
Time-Right hand, wave!
You love me no more:
The truth in five words.

~m. tsvetaeva

(photo from here by way of our old pals peter and hare)

(by way of cafe mode)

The Greek word “amethystos” may be translated as “not drunken”. Amethyst was considered to be a strong antidote against drunkenness, which is why wine goblets were often carved from it. In greek mythology, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections. Amethystos prayed to the gods to remain chaste, which the goddess Artemis granted and transformed her into a white stone. Humbled by Amethystos’s desire to remain chaste, Dionysus poured wine over the stone as an offering, dyeing the crystals purple.

(photos from facehunter)

a few randoms:

• fashionable forecasting: join now 
• diy fringe scarf
• in the backyard, the scent of Mme. Hardy is nearing its end. 
• in its place the first mosquito bites of the season. 

hang on travelling woman
don’t sacrifice your plans
because it will come back to you
before you lose it on a man

never fall in love with potential
because you can see with your own eyes

(travelling woman by bat for lashes)

garance’s ode to the turban.