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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · Nov 12

I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

Sylvia Plath, The Morning Song

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unfurling

hint of face in cloud, unfurling tresses above

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good night dreamers

collage (No. 47)

collage with fragmented antique found paper on street in Berlin

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Isabella Streffen, FABULAE

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collage (No. 36)

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I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;

Yeats, A Coat (1914)

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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Roland Barthes, Mythologies

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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Anne Carson

clouded scape early morning

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cloudy morning, with coffee

clouds reflected in glass and water

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Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

C. G. Jung

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wish you a lovely day

fungi on forest floor

leaves and fungi on forest floor

Nerine bowdenii in b & w

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tea and Sunday read

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Saying nothing sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

forest floor scape of autumn detritus

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illusion of hours

blue striated sea, an impression

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(forgotten mnemonic)

Man Ray, 1925

pair hands clasped with crossed line over, like thread

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field of muse and mull

carpet faded into fragments of colour, earth and sea

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Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928) film dr. Sally Potter on screen for cocktail hour.

Screen shot:
Tilda Swinton (Orlando)

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have a wonderful night

fireworks, albeit subtle, against a dark blue night sky

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The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us.

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

wall fragment, Rome, 50 BC

Wall fragment 50BC of an urn on pedestal (red-orange)

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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

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