Faust’s Dream - Carl Gustav Carus (1852)

“Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.”

Homer, The Odyssey 20:18

some details from my room and pictures from my daily constitutional walk. feeling sluggish today but nothing an iced coffee can’t fix 🌼🦋🌥️

Lowkey cottagecore vibes🌼🍀🌾🦋

✨Writer moodboard✨

Moodboard for @peachsnyder138

the fireplace in our family house up in the mountains (i actually hate it there)

Let Folly smile, to view the names

Of thee and me, in Friendship twin’d;

Yet Virtue will have greater claims

To love, than rank with vice combin’d.

And though unequal is thy fate,

Since title deck’d my higher birth;

Yet envy not this gaudy state,

Thine is the pride of modest worth.

Our souls at least congenial meet,

Nor can thy lot my rank disgrace;

Our intercourse is not less sweet,

Since worth of rank supplies the place.

- To E, written by a very young Lord Byron to a boy he was very much in love with

Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:
Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay;
In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle
Have choak’d up the rose, which late bloom’d in the way.

-  On Leaving Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron

Week 2 - Thursday - Take a picture of your study space

• Its a bit messy bc it’s still set up for painting, but it’ll work for the studying I have to do today. It’s all sunny there, and also just wanted to show off my fave study companion, my little fun teapot.

Week 2 - Friday - A picture of the view out your window

• The view out my window goes out to the back yard where it’s quite sunny and my room gets the most light during the day. It’s right next to my desk and I can see the moon through it most nights 🌛

Week 2 - Saturday - A picture of food you’ve cooked or baked

• Not going to lie, I haven’t made this recently BUT it is one of my favourite meals I’ve made in a while, it’s a mushroom, walnut and thyme linguine, it’s absolutely delicious and my roommates love it now too.

oh to feel such concentrated yearning that i gain the writing talent of richard siken

honoris causa

I just want to live in a forest meadow in a little cottage where every room is technically a library with extra furniture with my wife and some pets.

The fickle complexity of love

Love in all bounds is the most complicated emotion; so fleeting yet  inescapable, able to invoke torrential pain yet also be the floodgates upon which unbound ecstatic joy can be released.

Ancient Russia: causes of its occurrence.

• Improvement of tools. It was the cause of productivity increase -> People produced more stuff and traded it -> Creating of trade relations.
• The growth of the cities which were the centres of trade and craft.
• Appereance of private property caused socio-econimic stratification in society (stratification into rich and poor).
• Decay of the tribal system. Society of the East Slavs was developed so well that old system was unable to satisfy all needs of it.
• External threat from eastern nomadic tribes. Their frequent attacks made Slavic tribes come together for protection.

[перевод/translation]

Причины образования Древнерусского государства.

• Усовершенствование орудий труда. Это привело к повышению производительности труда людей, что в свою очередь способствовало появлению прибавочного продукта. Лишними продуктами люди обменивались, тем самым формируя тороговые связи.
• Рост гордов как центров торговли и ремесла.
• Появление частной собственности привело к социально-экономическому расслоению (деление общества на бедных и богатых).
• Разложение родоплеменного строя. Общественные отношения развились настолько, что прежняя социальная организация общества не могла удовлетворять все его потребности.
• Внешняя угроза. Постоянные нападения со стороны кочевников заставили разрозненные славянские племена объединится для защиты территории.

Hi everyone, Here’s a new study with me. I hope you’ll enjoy the bird chirping in the background while studying with me!

I just want to be truly independent of the world. I want to have a well kept collection of books that have notes in them I’ve only seen. I want to have plants in every corner of a place that’s truly mine, with no stress as to how I’m going to afford it or if someone else will be there. I want there to be art, art by the people I love and the artists I adore, to line the walls. I want my kitchen to be organised and full of fresh produce from my own garden. I want to throw dinner parties, and I want to cook all the food from scratch for the people I love and I want them to bring good alcohol to pair it with. I want to have a life of independence, so I can choose how to fill the spaces for love.

dude idk i just wanna have a big garden where i can read on warm summer evenings and small cute house and some pets and i wanna make a lot of art and get my freaking life together and learn latin and have a lot of cool clothes and ya know lay in the grass watching the stars and the moon and write some things and play the guitar while singing some old forgotten songs and going to museums and learning about people from hundreds of years ago and i wanna have a cute floral dress and walk through a forest and have a picnic and bake some things with a record player playing my favorite songs in the background and i wanna have a lot of posters and pictures on the walls of my room but im lonely and im broke so yeah.

now that I can no longer scour bookstores, my pile of unread books has been shrinking for probably the first time in my memory