( via / oil painting on velvet by me )

IT’S JUST THAT I’M NOT REALLY INTO POLITICS.

"What happened was slower and less deliberate: over years, certain writers proved capable of surviving rereading, and others did not. The books that remained were those that addressed me seriously, without hauteur, concerned with how we conduct ourselves. I did not know I was applying a test until I noticed the results." —Anthony Brown via

It measures about 150,000 light years from side to side.

"Not Rattling

Scaly on a shelf · of square-laid stonework,
coiled by a bush, basking in the sun,
we can’t see your tail · on this cool morning
or hear it either · in the early stillness.
Taking its time, your tongue flicks slowly,
testing our purpose, tasting the peace."

—David B. Ring at FGR

Education in the Year 2000.