fantasia / beethoven's pastoral symphony, mvmt 1
leonard bernstein (l.b.) in dialogue with a poet
me potting and re-potting my plants: so the contract is i give you what you need, you give me what i need; you make your ATP pancakes in the morning and i’ll make oat flour pancakes, too. dirt is yum, huh.
by Julia Manning
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“We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.” - Annie Dillard
Zoran Šimunović (Croatian, b. 1984), Do Astronauts Need Art?, 2020. Oil on canvas, 180 x 150 cm
june being both pride-month and scotus decision season really wrecks my stomach biome health
An illustration of a Hawaiian Nohu fish (also known as a scorpionfish) from David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian fishes.
Full text with many other colorful illustrations here.
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Fede Galizia, 1596, detail
This was one of the set of tags left on the post I shared with the pride month statement from Biden and I just…don’t get this sentiment?
Maybe I’m a neoliberal shitlib centrist assimilationist but while there are definitely things I’m disappointed with re: Biden and his administration I don’t understand this “hatred” and this very qualified, begrudging statement?
A lot of people hate Biden because other people on the Internet told them to. They can't point to anything he's actually done that they understand in terms of the available mechanisms. Sometimes they are literal lies (e.g. he did absolutely NOT vote to confirm Clarence Thomas, he voted against him). It's usually "a promise he didn't actually make but influencers online wanted him to", "a power the president doesn't actually have but influencers said he did", or commonly "he isn't Bernie Sanders" who--and I hate to be blunt--promised things that were not doable.
Biden's been ahead of the curve on racial justice and LGBT rights and poverty rights for his entire time in public service, which is about 12 years longer than the average American has been alive.
Uncredited artwork, used in a Psy textbook as the title image for a chapter on visual perception.