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You are not a machine. You’re a soul who needs music, books, connection, sunsets, laughter, and small pockets of joy. Prioritize them like your life depends on it, because it does. Life isn’t meant to be a cycle of stress and survival. Pause. Look up. Let the sunset remind you: you’re here to live, not just to hustle. Life is not a to-do list. It’s a gift. Walk slower. Hug longer. Laugh louder. Love deeper. The clock may be ticking, but your presence is timeless. We’ve been conditioned to believe that constant productivity equals worth, but humans weren’t designed for endless output. We need moments of wonder, connection, and rest, not as rewards for hard work, but as essential ingredients for a meaningful life.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Encouragement” (or “Take This to Heart”, “Beherzigung”) (trans., E. Louise Mally)
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"Adding beauty and order to the world is never pointless." —@uppityhobbit, winner of my August '26 Post of the Month.
Now a bookmark: hand-drawn calligraphy & illuminated A, engraved on birdseye maple & padauk or sipo with 7-wood borders.
fathersonwoodcraft.com/produ…
#handmade
ALT Two engraved wooden bookmarks on a leather background, both reading 'Adding beauty and order to the world is never pointless' in hand-drawn calligraphy with an illuminated A and floral vines. The top one is birdseye maple with padauk borders, and the bottom one is sipo with geometric multi-wood borders.
ALT A birdseye maple bookmark with red padauk borders lying horizontally on tan leather, engraved 'Adding beauty and order to the world is never pointless.' in hand-drawn calligraphy with a large illuminated A and flowering vines at each end.
ALT A reddish-brown sipo bookmark on tan leather, framed top and bottom by borders of angled light and dark hardwood pieces, engraved 'Adding beauty and order to the world is never pointless.' with an illuminated A and flowering vines.
SpaceCowgirl retweeted
I loved working with Old Sovereign on their edition of the Aeneid, the great Roman poem.
You'll definitely need a copy of this one for your library!
And we have brought it all together so that you can experience this epic in the most satisfying way possible.
With artworks from British artist @Art_Deano
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Paintings by Solomon J. Solomon
Ajax and Cassandra, 1886
Eve, n.d.
Eros, n.d.
Self-portrait, 1896
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"Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Things folks don't know about Pittsburgh and our Industrial Revolution past; we weren't just leading the world in industry, we were also in the arts.
In 1895, Andrew Carnegie, the undisputed titan of the steel industry, founded the Carnegie Institute, he wanted to make Pittsburgh “as famous for art as it is now for steel,” so he established an annual survey exhibition of art from which the museum would purchase prizewinners and key works to build its collection.
international contemporary art.
Pittsburgh’s extraordinary cultural wealth is the direct legacy of its industrial golden age.
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After 2020, a lot of people swung from trusting every expert without question to treating everything as a psyop, and both reflexes cost us the same thing: a shared sense of what's real that our parents, deferring to trusted professionals or spiritual leaders, mostly took for granted.
There's a big danger in this kind of kneejerk distrust: the boy who cried wolf was eventually right, but nobody listened.
From Ep #26 of the @MTSPodcastOnX with @kalezelden
youtube.com/watch?v=EjDrser8…
SpaceCowgirl retweeted
There's simple, and there's "simple." There's no reason you can't elevate even a basic unlined belt to something a little more thoughtful and refined.
Full length creasing and burnishing, overcast stitch ends, and a really solid piece of cowhide.
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If you're new to my page, I design and make unique medieval-style illuminated book editions of classic texts: hero stories, myths, and wonder-tales. You can follow along here as I do them, or jump in my publishing fundraiser to start building your collection with Gawain and the Green Knight: kickstarter.com/projects/tam…
For $70, you can lock in a deluxe hardcover edition of this illuminated tale, richly bound in dark green imitation leather with gold foil stamping, raised bands on the spine, and all the works, plus get your digital and stretch-goal bonus goodies. This is your sign to start building your epic home library with an illuminated medieval Arthurian classic!
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Note to self:
Doubt, uncertainty, fear. Yes. Natural. You’d be a fool without them. But they are only a starting point.
Pray. Do your work. Cultivate hope. Pray some more.
No dooming.
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Ok, turning in for the night.
Last thoughts:
Beware of associational stink. Some things soap can't clean.
Don't sell your soul for likes.
Don't simp for Putin, ever.
Tell the truth.
Build real relationships.
Meet your mutuals.
Ask for help.
Reach out in DMs.
Be vulnerable.
Love
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An 1819 diagram of a wooden printing press, showing the central screw, the operating lever, and the heavy platen that applied pressure to the paper.
