me remembering when i was nice when i should have killed them
to keep them in your heart
sarah bernhardt's locket / c.c. aurel / missing faces / mitch albom / unknown / sufjan stevens / lock and key
Unknown, Japanese/ American nature documentary, life in oceans, 1970s
I can’t stop getting emotional about how tenderly a shepherd caresses his dog’s face on this marble sarcophagus from the third century
The dog’s face is just so lovingly crafted and it’s much more finely detailed than some of the other animals in the piece. The expression is pure contentment and devotion. This scene is a tiny portion of a huge elaborate sculpture but I really feel like the artist was trying to capture a specific emotion with these two. The way that you feel when you look at your dog is thousands of years old.
“[…] the desire to be loved, to be held close to the other shape; to put off the veil of darkness and see burning eyes.”
— Virginia Woolf, from “The Moment: Summer’s Night”, The Moment and Other Essays