"For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
— Esther 4:14
Daniel Ridgway Knight (American, 1839-1924) The Shepherdess of Rolleboise (France), 1896 Brooklyn Museum
Christianity is very metal actually:
the grave can't hold me ... the blood of The Lamb has cleansed me ... follow The One who died in your place ... the fear of God is stronger than the fear of man ... we are ash and to ash we shall return ... something something, I could probably continue-
"The Postman", Bulgaria, 1971 - by Jacko Vassilev (1951), Bulgarian
hey, can we talk for a second? it’s about your girlfriend. yeah, she’s great. no, yeah, I agree. It’s just that… she seems really devoted to you? Like really devoted. Almost as if you were the sole, fragile line mooring her to the shores of humanity. No, that’s not romant—ugh. Listen. Me and the girls, we’re worried you might be the last good thing to happen to her and that were some tragedy to inevitably befall you, she would tear the gods from their thrones and dye the infinite western seas wine-dark with their ichor. Do you think you could introduce her to a new hobby or something? we don’t want to have to argue over what color “wine-dark” is supposed to be
No matter what your vocation is, a saint may seem choose to hang around you in a special way. This saint is being guided by God to help you get to Heaven through intercessory prayer. You might have more than one.
Don Hunstein Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, Greenwich Village, New York City 1963
“I couldn’t take my eyes off her… The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid’s arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard.” Bob Dylan, on meeting Suze Rotolo, 2004.
“Whenever I looked around, Bobby was nearby. I thought he was oddly old-time looking, charming in a scraggly way. His jeans were as rumpled as his shirt and even in the hot weather he had on the black corduroy cap he always wore. He made me think of Harpo Marx, impish and approachable, but there was something about him that broadcast an intensity that was not to be taken lightly.” Suze Rotolo, on her first encountering Bob Dylan at folk music happenings around New York City shortly after his arrival in the city, 2008
Preaching chair, view towards Nagymaros and Visegrád, Danube Bend, Hungary, 1956 - Fortepan
you know your period is close when you start feeling like life isnt worth it anymore out of nowhere
This is an appreciation post to all my sisters in Christ. Grateful we don’t walk alone. I love you.
The city of Shibam, in the desert of Ramlat al-Sab'atayn, known for its mudbrick-made high-rise buildings. It was the capital of the Hadramawt Kingdom and one of the three major cities of the Qu'aiti Sultanate. Yemen, 1941. Photographer unknown.
