Favourite pins from August ‘25

August was when I started posting on Pinterest - here are some of my favourites.

Colours are the wounds of light

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.

Reparative living

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.”

Sabrina Scott on flawed abundance

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.”

A different view of AI

Words by me.

“all our old words back to dance for us in kaleidoscopic, fractal forms”.

For wildness

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.

Grief, wholeness, and authenticity

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.

Natural cycles

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.

Generative mess

Words by Martin Shaw.

“Go out into the world with your fists full of wildflower seeds.”

A simple AI framework

Words by me.

1. be aware, 2. be purposeful, 3. be specific, 4. be original, 5. be bounded

Artful living

Words by Thomas Merton.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Photo courtesy of the Birmingham Museums Trust.

Sincerity without irony is vulnerable

Words by me.

“cringe is ego leaving the body”.

Beyond the 'puppy fat' of coherent sense

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.