jane kenyon

2019-01-09

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

Flowers by Irving Penn

Anatomically correct, Myke

Bulgarian Orthodox faithful light candles attached to jars of honey during a Holy Mass for the “sanctification of honey” at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the town of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, on February 10, 2022. Borislav Troshev.

Madonna of Lilies (1899) and Pieta (1876) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Tuesday Riddell — Seed Snow Stream  (gold & silver leaf, gold powder, lustre powder and paint on japanned board, 2021)

Manolo B. Mantero We Live by the Sea 2020

Creep (2014)

A system of anatomical plates, accompanied with descriptions, and physiological, pathological, and surgical observations, 1822

sickly wildfire haze, Montana, July 2021

you’re a drug addict lying on your back in a tijuana hotel room

cakes for when you die and get brought back but there's something wrong with you and everyone can tell

Abbey Theatre, ‘Programme’, Dublin, 1910 Source

Gashadokuro (details) by Emil Melmoth

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Radiating sun. Elements of meteorology. pt. II. 1875. Book cover, detail.