Favourite pins from August ‘25
August was when I started posting on Pinterest - here are some of my favourites.
August was when I started posting on Pinterest - here are some of my favourites.
In Anam Cara, John O’Donohue attributed the quote "colours are the wounds of light” to William Blake. There’s no record in his papers that Blake actually said this, but it’s still a beautiful quote.
Photo courtesy of Jesse Zhou on Unsplash.
This is adapted from an original quote by the poet Dennis Leigh, “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
Words and image from the beautiful book ‘witchbody’ by Sabrina Scott.
“There is magic and wisdom in our tables and chairs, in our computer cables, in our organic soy lattes and recycled post-consumer cups... We can’t keep only seeking the most pristine spirits, the most pristine material bodies. Nothing has ever been ‘pure’. We shouldn’t only pay heed to manicured candy-coated lawns but also waste, garbage, forest, marina, skyscraper, landfill, prosthesis, everything in between.”
Words by me.
“all our old words back to dance for us in kaleidoscopic, fractal forms”.
Words are from ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
“When a life is too controlled, there becomes less and less life to control.”
Photo courtesy of Ivan Bandura on Unsplash.
Words from the book ‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow’ by Francis Weller.
“To honor our grief, to grant it space and time in our frantic world, is to fulfill a covenant with soul—to welcome all that is, thereby granting room for our most authentic life.”
Photo courtesy of Fabrice Villard on Unsplash.
Words from the poem ‘Ghazal of Oranges’ by Jan-Henry Gray.
“A farmer in a fallow season kneels to know the dirt.”
Photo courtesy of Bruno Braga on Unsplash.
Words by Martin Shaw.
“Go out into the world with your fists full of wildflower seeds.”
Words by me.
1. be aware, 2. be purposeful, 3. be specific, 4. be original, 5. be bounded
Words by Thomas Merton.
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Photo courtesy of the Birmingham Museums Trust.
Words by me.
“cringe is ego leaving the body”.
Words from the book ‘Touching Feeling’ by Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick.
“..various more or less intelligible performances by old brilliant people, whether artists, scientists, or intellectuals, where the bare outlines of a creative idiom seem finally to emerge from what had been the obscuring puppy fat of personableness, timeliness, or sometimes even of coherent sense. Who wouldn’t find it attractive, the idea of emerging into a senile sublime?”
Photo courtesy of Brett Jordan on Unsplash.