And They Had This In Common: That They Were Feared, Hated, Desired, And Worshiped - Woman Hating, A.d.

Like. The quote “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend” is such an integral quote/concept to LOTR that I just cannot for the life of me comprehend how people come away from LOTR inspired to write the grimdark i-love-war-and-suffering stories that populate fantasy

Moonlit village in winter (1926) by Mikhail Markelovich Guzhavin (1888-1929)

“East Boston, 1996; Night Walk,” in God’s Silence by Franz Wright

Edmund Dulac, The Snow Queen Flies Through the Winter’s Night. Illustration for “The Snow Queen: in Seven Stories,”  Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, 1911.

Snowy Night by Mary Oliver

Winter, Midnight, 1894 by Childe Hassam (1859–1935)

Good Hours by Robert Frost

Street in the Evening, Prague (1875) by Jakub Schikaneder (Czech, 1855-1924)

from Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf 

Old Houses, Montreal by Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866-1934)

NASA rover Perseverance successfully lands on Mars and is now ready to look for signs of ancient life!

At around 4pm ET yesterday, NASA’s most sophisticated rover yet, Perseverance, landed on Mars. It will spend at least one Mars year—687 Earth days—searching for signs of ancient life on the red planet. 

It has a friend waiting: NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012.

This photo made available by NASA shows the first image sent by the Perseverance rover showing the surface of Mars, just after landing in the Jezero crater, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA via AP)

This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Perseverance’s $3 billion mission is the first leg in a U.S.-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

In this photo provided by NASA, members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The landing of the six-wheeled vehicle marks the third visit to Mars in just over a week. Two spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates and China swung into orbit around the planet on successive days last week. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP).

A full-scale model of the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is displayed for the media at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

A NASA rover has landed on Mars in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet. (Feb. 18)

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate, raises his arms, center, with Lori Glaze, Director of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Planetary Science Division, right, as they walk with members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Source: APNEWS

““If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.” because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.””

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S C R E M

Photo via Lee Henstock

You’re welcome

I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back

Marilla: What’s the most inspiring thing I’ve ever said to you?

Anne: “Don’t be an idiot.” Changed my life.

I’m just an almond milk girl in a cow milk world