Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood, 1961

Hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera

Ariel View of Crop Circles in Chalgrove (2005)

The Frewen Cup, an engraved Nautilus shell set in silver gilt mounts, by John Plummer, England, c. 1650

(via Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: Man-Made Moons (1960))

Aerial view of center-pivot (or circular) irrigation farming just east of the Rockies on the Great Plains… I think I calculated that each circle has a diameter of 1/2 mile (about 1 km)… amazing view from the air!

 Each of them undergoes there an experience of decreation, or so she tells us. But the telling remains a bit of a wonder. Decreation is an undoing of the creature in us—that creature enclosed in self and defined by self. But to undo self one must move through self, to the very inside of its definition. We have nowhere else to start.

Anne Carson, from Decreation

DP/30: Jenny Slate (Oct 2014)

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way