6 July 1957 – “I dug him.”

Hello, today I found out about Virpoa/Virpominen, the Finnish Palm Sunday where kids dress up as trulli/witches and go door to door offering decorated branches in return for candy.

Alex e Clark 2018

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

Laura Makabresku, Vigil, 2020 

In Finland we do not have a “Valentine’s Day” so to say, here the 14th of February is a day dedicated to friends, which I think is nicer than having to stress over not having a special someone. Let’s celebrate platonic love!

(According to wikipedia thujas and pear blossoms symbolize friendship, so there ya go)

Keenly, without blinking, through pallid, stray clouds, upon the child in the manger, from far away— from the depth of the universe, from its opposite end—the star was looking into the cave. And that was the Father’s stare.

Joseph Brodsky, closing stanza to “Star of the Nativity,” Collected Poems In English, 1972-1999 (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000)                                    

Ivanka Demchuk, Hidden Life in Nazareth

THE GOAT HAS BURNED

what do u guys call ur mom

Today is St Lucia’s day, a very important feast both here and in Scandinavia!

Gleipnir (detail) by Walton Ford

Rene Magritte - Jupiter in Virgo (1965)

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

new tag game: people who don’t have anime profile pics, if you had to pick one rn what would it be

Officially, no one was able to approach the White Wolf for 25 years. Vincent Munier, wildlife photographer, spent a month alone in the extreme Artic Tundra at the very north of Canada to photograph the rare and endangered animal —known as well as the Ghost of the Tundra. About 300 km away from the nearest Inuit Village, the animals have no contact with humans and so, haven’t learnt to fear them. After a week of searching at -47°C, a pack of nine wolves eventually appeared, curious to see what the photographer was up to. They stayed near him for thirty minutes and Munier took 3000 exceptional images.

“I was just about to go to sleep when I spotted some grey and yellow points about 5 km away moving in my direction. A few minutes later, they were right next to my tent, circling it and I photographed them for the half an hour they stayed with me. The greatest moment of my career.”

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