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• Post #4420845

  "The spaces are organised into thematic rooms that reflect the layout of the original library and evoke the main areas of Eco's thought." Sigh. It would be wonderful to visit and tour the newly opened Umberto Eco library at the University of Bologna where he taught for many years. So far it contains 32,000 of his books from his home and study in Milan, the rest of his books from his country house are yet to be added. Eco's way of organizing his books is preserved in the librar...

• Post #4419711

  For years I lived as if my life were made of clay or wood or even stone, and all I had to do—“all”— was mold or whittle or chisel to change its shape. As if my life were calling out from inside a larger hunk of raw material, of potential living. As if the shape existed, and my work was to reveal it. For years I lived like that. Imagine the absurdity of taking a chisel to water, or trying to sculpt it with your hands. This is what a life is: water. The work is letting it fill the spaces it runs t...

• Post #4219775

  first gleams of sunlight touch a crumbling sandcastle before waves claim it #DailyHaikuPrompt - sand castle #haiku #SmallPoems

• Post #3939755

  Voracious reader, book collector, and scholar Ignacio Sánchez Prado writes about how he began collecting books when growing up in Mexico, and why it was and is so important to him to develop his working library. He takes an interesting look at the future or not of such libraries and of how they relate to scholarship. #books #libraries #reading #bookstodon https://pghrev.com/a-library-on-the-eve-of-packing/

• Post #3836802

  #art to start 🎨 ...summer greens 'Secret Garden ' Artist: Alexandra Jagoda #painting #oil #OilPainting #landscape

• Post #3747836

  #art to start 🎨 ...watching the world go by 'Blue Silence' Artist: Hanna Hryharenka #painting #oil #OilPainting #Caturday

• Post #3504507

  #art to start 🎨 ...keeping watch 'Crow on a Cherry Branch' Artist: Ohara Koson #painting #woodblock

• Post #3420401

  What is a word? — Depends on who you ask. For instance, in the rigid Flemish taal, so many things that feel like words don’t pass, and my sprung language doesn’t work at al. My sentences are yet another place where stringent rule-embracers don’t agree: to me, an error shows the second face of grammar. The mistakes are what I mean. The thing I value most in any line— drawn, made, wrote, thought; in fantasy or fact— is flexibility: that, like a spine, the art supports the mind by which it’s maked....

• Post #2003428

  #art to start 🎨 ...going home 'Side by Side' Artist: Alejandro Roberto Bergoglio De Mattia #painting #watercolor #WatercolorPainting

• Post #1555577

  When ball moss falls we feel most at a loss to explain why this soft bomb of sticks and fine jade colored fronds loud with naught drops to us: does the tree let the moss go or does the tree ask us to hold the moss? ~~'Epiphyte Interlude' by Cecily Parks from 'The Seeds' #ThursdayPoem #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry

• Post #1555574

  The aspen glitters in the wind. And that delights us. The leaf flutters, turning, Because that motion in the heat of summer Protects its cells from drying out. Likewise the leaf Of the cottonwood. The gene pool threw up a wobbly stem And the tree danced. No. The tree capitalized. No. There are limits to saying, In language, what the tree did. It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Dance with me, dancer. Oh, I will. Aspens doing something in the wind. ~~ 'The Problem of De...

• Post #1555571

  And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid #SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon

• Post #1020441

  Inspired by her own garden and her visit to Monet's gardens at Giverny, textile artist Kathrin Marchenko created a large 110 x 280 centimeters thread painting, 'Nymphéas Beyond', in which water and plants seem to become one. #art #embroidery #FiberArt #Textile Art #ThreadPainitng #EmbroideryArt https://mymodernmet.com/kathrin-marchenko-nympheas-beyond/

• Post #917579

  The old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by our lights and leaping, live drops of rain. The rain was falling, a mist about his white hair and I kept saying you can’t save them all accept it, get back in, we’ve got places to go. But, leathery hands full of wet brown life knee deep in the summer roadside grass he just smiled and said they have places to go too. ~~'Birdfoot's Grampa' by Joseph Bru...

• Post #785146

  Detroit, Michigan is the pilot location for an initiative by environmental groups working together to preserve the genetics of California's oldest giant sequoias by cloning them and planting the saplings outside of their native habitat. Because of the wildfires that rip through California annually, several historic groves have already been destroyed and the species is at risk. #sequoia #trees #preservation #nature #wildfires #ClimateChange https://mymodernmet.com/giant-sequoia-tree-clo...

• Post #785145

  #art to start 🎨 ...golden sunset 'Evening harbor in Valencia' Artist: Eugenia Gorbacheva #painting #watercolor #WatercolorPainting

• Post #785142

  With a few pencils and a gridded sketchbook, the artist Pejac creates amazing trompe-l'oeil drawings that pop up off the page. #art #drawing #graphite #PencilDrawing https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/pejac-graph-paper-graphite-drawings/

• Post #785141

  #art to start 🎨 ...a time to rest 'Sunset, Nature's Dream' Artist: Anastasia Woron #painting #oil #OilPainting #surrealism

• Post #785139

  spring snow lies heavy on fragile blossoms bending under their burden #DailyHaikuPrompt - late snow, bloom #haiku #SmallPoems

• Post #785138

  "But the Earth is an unstable stone on which its occupants are planted. It must be tended with care, or else it will rebel. Our rock tells us when it’s hurt or yearning, and we must listen. Otherwise, one morning we may find it no longer wants to revolve." -- from 'The Archive of Alternate Endings' by Lindsey Drager #BookQuote #books #reading #bookstodon