this is endless

Trying to get back into Tumblr, with a fresh start. Feel free to follow if any of y’all are still around! 

https://love-and-shadows.tumblr.com/

ICYMI, I’m at @love-and-shadows now!

Brooke Shaden

Erin Hanson

Evan Rachel Wood attends the 70th Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

That coat is amazing.

@mostlycatsmostly

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” - Anthony Bourdain

“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.

You have to pay your electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.”

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

Aiko’s Hands, 1971. Photographed by Imogen Cunningham.

Emancipated duels. Photo by Pavel Kurmilev

Baroness Lubinska who presided over the famous duel between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg in 1892, insisted that the duelists remove their clothing above their waists to avoid infection in the event that a sword pushed clothing into the wound it caused. Being a doctor, the baroness had seen many instances of septic infection in soldiers for this very reason throughout her years of medical training.

“The cause of the duel is reputed to be an argument over arrangements for the Vienna Musical and Theatrical Exhibition.” - I like these ladies.

I arrive at the duel 

sword: sharpened

sepsis: prevented

tits: out