If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

-- Noam Chomsky

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

--Virginia Woolf

Sunday Tune

Socks

LOVE!
Strathcona Stockings

Camille Henrot

 Camille Henrot

“The black book”, Lawrence Durrell (serie “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?”)

kamel mennour, Paris.

image by Dasha Riabchenko

Scattered Leaves

Don't you go looking so surprised, baby don't you look so stunned
Didn't I tell you that a cold november'd come?
And deliver the leaves from green to red,
To blowing in the wind stone dead

Well I never used to notice this awful quiet,
And fall was just the calm before the next spring riot,
Of wildflowers and lunatic rivers -
Sweat jumping off of the skin of love givers

Scattered leaves don't lie
Aw' now baby, baby, quit your cryin'
Like everything that ever mattered, scit-scat scattered
Like every love word you heard
But that's just the way when you walk your days
In the beauty of this world

Pretty little disappointments all in a row
Been about a year since you disappeared through my door
And now you come back with your head on straight,
But I got no love or hate left for you, girl

You must be the daughter of the late, late rose - I'm November's son
And I'm here to tell you, honey, ooh what's done is done
Yeah, I been claimed by the wind and the rain
There ain't no going back, naw there ain't no going back again (for us now)


-- The Be Good Tanyas (Jeremy Lindsey)

From Dasha Riabchenko via blacktaiga

Sam A Harris

All images by Sam A Harris. Discovered via ilikethisblog

Stories to tell

From the Charleston Museum via evencleveland: 

Navy blue rayon dress, c. 1945, with the story of D-Day printed on the fabric. The bottom section around the skirt shows men in landing barges, wading through water and hitting the beach. The next row up are pictures of tanks, trucks and jeeps moving across roads. Next are soldiers being welcomed by French people in small towns, and finally there are people throwing bouquets and cheering. The bodice repeats the last row of the motif and around the shoulders and collar are waves. The dress opens down the front with a placket concealing nine navy blue buttons, a hook and eye at the waist and a snap at the neck. There are thread belt loops at the waist, but the belt is missing. Inside the neck is a label from “Bonwit Teller / Fifth Avenue / New York.”

For the full story behind the dress, click here. I agree with evencleveland...Amazing.

Found here

found here

Sunday Tune

A green spy was following a blue spy.
Followed by a night sky.
Followed by a fat lie.
Followed by a cherry pie.
Followed by a striped tie.
Followed by a black eye.
Followed by a butterfly.
Followed by a day in July.
Followed by a magpie.
Followed by a deep sigh.
Followed by a bye-bye.
Followed by a good cry.
Followed by a blue spy.

Arm in Arm: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations and Other Echolalia - written & illustrated by Remy Charlip (1969).

Ester Vonplon

Ester Vonplon

Reindeer

Reindeer Wrangling on Nowness.com.

by yowayowa via allthemountains

Found here

Gustav Adbåge

Photography by Gustav Adbåge

Moon bowl

Laura Carlin

Sunday Tune

Fogo Island

Fogo Island artist studios

image found here

ring the bells that still can ring

forget your perfect offering

there is a crack in everything

that’s how the light gets in

--leanord cohen “anthem”