Vincent van GoghWheatfield with Mountains in the Background, 1889 #vincentvangogh #vangogh https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/wheatfield-with-mountains-in-the-background-1889
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A telescope that can point itself and think about what it sees
Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haude Galline near Eygalieres, 1889 #vincentvangogh #vangogh https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/wheat-field-with-cypresses-at-the-haude-galline-near-eygalieres-1889-1
rachelle mandikbeware diet advice that recommends "eating light," for that is most certainly the way you become a black hole
Osnat Katz Moon
MathonwyToday is a beautiful, sunny day. Outside of my window I see the neighbor’s fence and a little larch tree, and from fence to larch is a single strand of silk left behind by an adventurous spider, and it looks like a silver thread shimmering in the golden light. Once there was another spider who reached out for the golden sun.
T. R. DarlingTree hugging gets a bad reputation, but the practice is never futile. Trees worldwide are connected by a communication and support network of roots and mycelia. As long as your favorite tree is on the same continent, it will feel your hug, and be able to return the affection.
So even though the ‘individual’ shifts & repeats archetypes, though the individual is inseparable from the larger environment, though the boundary exists only in perception & the limits of the senses— it is the basis of life & form & action, which will hopefully go on forever.
I do think of us in some sense as the individual waves in the endlessly rolling ocean of the universe, which also seems to be the Taoistic or zen view (or also Nietzsche’s). And of course w/o the specific, the individual, a boundary, there is no form, & nothing to apprehend form.
Reading a wave:
To me, the beauty of Calvino’s writing is the combination of precise observation & poetic reflection.
So w/ the waves, their behavior is exactly described (& is btw interesting to see from above ✈️) but his words can apply to individuals, history, evolutions…
To me, the beauty of Calvino’s writing is the combination of precise observation & poetic reflection.
So w/ the waves, their behavior is exactly described (& is btw interesting to see from above ✈️) but his words can apply to individuals, history, evolutions…
I’m going to repost on Mastodon my Twitter series going through Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar section by section & giving my thoughts on each.
Once again, please join in if you’ve read it or are reading along 🌌
Btw, the chapters have a structure Calvino made when writing it, as seen in the pics:
Once again, please join in if you’ve read it or are reading along 🌌
Btw, the chapters have a structure Calvino made when writing it, as seen in the pics:
