Stained glass window in the
Mazovian Museum, Plock,
Poland.
The Museum is a restored Art Nouveau / Secession style building from the early 20th century in the Old Town , compiling the biggest collection of Art Nouveau in Poland .
I’ll do an official post and newsletter and all tomorrow but if you are awake and have been waiting there are finally some little dragony book friends in the shop 👀📚🧶
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‘There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.’
— I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett #Discworld
Dot Walker (UK)
“I live in the north of Scotland which has a very particular light and tends to have some dramatic weather. My dark and moody yet vibrantly colourful work is simply a reflection of the landscape that surrounds me as I see it.
Painting is an act of worship for me.”
I'm not a Catholic and never have been, but lately I've been prone to despair and this reminder that I shouldn't give in to it is quite welcome and useful rn
I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.
A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles.
Thinking about that a lot.
As an Aussie, never having seen one except on tv, the size of a kiwi still breaks my noodle.
My brain: a fluffy grapefruit, fit comfy into cupped hands
Reality:
My mom posted a meme on my FB that resonated with me so I share the sentiment here:
"My goal is to love my rescue animals so much they never remember the people who didn't want them."
Being an adult is learning that helicopter is a combination of the words helico (spiral) and pter (wing), not heli and copter because those aren't words
How dads comment on someone leaving the lights on, around the world...
5. It’s like the Blackpool illuminations in ’ere (UK English)
4. Are we living in Bethlehem? (Croatian)
3. We’re not in Versailles (French)
2. Is it Diwali again? (Hindi)
1. Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla? (Serbian)
