Phrase for today: "The word names the feeling that arises as you are buried alive with your dead husband."

The full poem can be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156413/american-han

I especially recommend it to
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So, I had a dream in which I was reading a really fascinating book about birds. Thick dark-cream paper, very realistic multi-colored illustrations on each page (the finch pecking seeds in the lower-left corner of the last page I got to was particularly good and either seemed or was alive). As usual in my dreams the book was very large, almost too ( Read more... )

The weird and eerie melancholy of emptied places.
http://www.kenopsia.com/

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/
courtesy of https://www.patreon.com/NowIKnow (a fascinating blog).

Can't remember whether I've posted this before, but it's awesome enough to post twice.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/

TIL that the Queen upon Argyle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVSNLTdJWY was most likely married to Ronald McDonald. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Macdonald_of_Clanranald

So, apparently the thing that's called "leaving in the British way" in Russian and French (not surprising, Russian has lots of French expressions) is known as "taking French leave" in the UK and "Irish goodbye" in the US and UK ( Read more... )

Today I learned that Miach actually survived and was seen working with his father after his father killed him. This made my regular re-reading of the School in Carmarten ever so much more pleasant.

http://linorgoralik.com/marketing/2019-02-13_my-oblazhalis-2-shaga-i-5-printsipov-krizisnoy-kommunikatsii.html
Вот эту статью Линор Горалик нужно запомнить, и употреблять в личных отношениях.

This https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376 is a very good essay, and I will link to it every time I feel like responding to people who say "liberals are stifling free speech" and "liberals are intolerant of other ( Read more... )