you can't survive alone, you will need help eventually, you need family and friends and you have to deal with the hardships and the fights that come with then, we are animals that thrive in groups, we have to care for others and receive care in return, being a burden upon others is life, resting other people's burdens on your shoulders even though it's heavy because that means it's just a little bit lighter for them is human nature, we don't leave our elderly and sick to die because that's what it is to be human, the meaning of life is other people,
Cave of Hands, Argentina - The art in the cave dates from 13.000 to 9.000 years ago.
:-) handwoven by Alexandra Jean Auger in Los Angeles, CA, 2023
alpaca wool and acrylic yarns on cotton warp 25β³ x 27.5β³
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Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents.
The Ksar Draa in Timimoun, Algeria, is an ancient ruin that stands out in the middle of an ocean of dunes, and it's history has been lost over the centuries. The only news related to it is that for a certain period of time it was occupied by the Jews of the Timimoun region
The moment baby trout leaps from the water to catch flies buzzing overhead, 2008 - by Kim Taylor, Canadian
commission from this spring: pΕwehi, aka "the image on earth least translatable into cross stitch" :^)
Wooden architecture of Kizhi island, Karelia. Photos by Viktor Gorkin (Russia, 1967).
Landis Blair, illustration from From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
Source: orderofthegooddeath.com
Fortune-Telling (Three Girls) by Halyna Mazepa, 1946