Rabolas's Blog: at sixes and sevens, page 19

Quick Writing Tip: Surround Yourself With Supporters

theliteraryarchitect:

If you have people in your life who aren’t 100% supportive, excited, and over-the-top enthusiastic about your pursuit of writing, now is the time to start weeding them out if possible. Writing is hard enough without people who discourage you or think you’re wasting your time. If you’re sensitive, even a general lack of interest from close friends or family can be crushing. Know what kind of support you need and get it whenever you can. Both you and your writing will benef...

zdmotion: ABSTRACT GLASS Lights and shadows,light and...

zdmotion:

ABSTRACT GLASS

Lights and shadows,
light and dark.
Contrasts that in
photography are
her soul and spirit.
A used bottle,
a manly lamp,
shadows allied to
desire to do something
really different.

~zd

Abstract challenge: 17 Lights

Curated and hosted by : @amyjmphotography and  @stephiramona

zdspOtted the other zdmOtiOn blog.
zdspOtted a new look on the photography.
zdspOtted experimental photography.blog 

smithsonianmag: Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)Autograph notes on...

smithsonianmag:

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Autograph notes on the satellites of Jupiter, 14–25 January 1611

On this scrap of paper (an unfolded envelope), Galileo recorded the positions of four satellites of Jupiter over a period of several nights. He had observed the moons with the aid of his newly constructed telescope and published his findings in his revolutionary book The Starry Messenger (1610). He then worked to define more precisely the periods of the orbits of the Jovian...

"L'immaginazione è una vera avventura. Guàrdati dall'annotarla troppo presto perché la rendi quadrata..."

adjacenttomaddy: little neighborhood library in Good Hart,...

adjacenttomaddy:

little neighborhood library in Good Hart, Michigan 

momofthetrees:A picture perfect Christmas.

momofthetrees:

A picture perfect Christmas.

iosonorockmaballoiltango: Il vero contatto fra gli esseri si stabilisce solo con la presenza muta,...

iosonorockmaballoiltango:

Il vero contatto fra gli esseri si stabilisce solo con la presenza muta, con l'apparente non-comunicazione, con lo scambio misterioso e senza parole che assomiglia alla preghiera interiore.

Emil Cioran

"I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves..."

“I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge!”

- Marianne Boruch, from “Once I Knew, Then I Forgot,” Field (no. 99, Fall 2018)

bampgs: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles on the set of ‘La...

bampgs:

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles on the set of ‘La Ricotta’ (1963).

"2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife..."

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

- Franz Kafka (via quotemadness)