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Hands with a stick, Vincent Van Gogh
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“Some - not all but some - situations elicit grief alongside feelings of inspiration or uplift. Try to ignore your feelings about one, then you risk avoiding or distorting the other.”
My piece about #grief as a space of complexity.
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Seascape with Buoy, JMW Turner
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What do the words ‘grammar’ and ‘glamour’ have to do with each other & why did their etymologies make me think of a statue of a Greek enchantress? For ‘grammar’ and ‘glamour’ are etymologically intertwined, and once had meanings that may surprise you.
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Self Portrait with Red Hat, Leonor Fini, 1968
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The empty space demarcated by grief stands ready to receive. When I come to remember my dead, what will I put into that empty space?
A short article on #grief and memory:
dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/forget-me-...
'After sunset, as seen from the baloon', from Travels in the Air, by Albert Tissandier, Eugene Ciceri, 1871.
(Sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / Internet Archive / Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University).
Down on his Luck, Frederick McCubbin, Art Gallery of Western Australia
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Some good snail-themed poetry and art in this post:
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Apparently this was the first ever YouTube video:
www.openculture.com/2025/06/watc...
Dante's Death Mask, photograph by David Lee
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Drama of a vase of flowers from Elias van den Broeck. Today was his day.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Haunting, Odilon Redon, ca. 1893
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A circus poster from 1892.
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“How can you simultaneously be of the world - the family or community you live in - while the demands or comforts of #grief try to pull you away from it?”
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“Historical museum narratives aren’t necessarily inaccurate — but, much like historical movies, they are selective. They highlight certain events, actors and cause-and-effect chains to tell a particular kind of story.”
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Forgetful Angel, Paul Klee
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From Spectropia, or Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any colour, JH Brown, 1863
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The Empty Space: A short blog about #grief.
Written at Christmas but relevant to any time of the year, I think.
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“On the day the world ends / A bee circles a clover, / A fisherman mends a glimmering net. / Happy porpoises jump in the sea, / By the rainspout young sparrows are playing..."
From A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz #poetry
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Illustration from Nos Invisibles, Raffaele Mainella, 1907
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From Festons und Decorative Gruppen by Martin Gerlach
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'A Fierce Tiger Drawn from Life', Utagawa Kunimaro
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Looking forwards and backwards: A blog and some reflective prompts for the beginning of the year.
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“The notion of play also often links to ideas of childhood and happiness – perhaps conjuring up notions of innocence. Either way, a time of less complexity, nervousness, or pressure than many of us are experiencing right now.”
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“I can’t remember the tale, / but hear his voice still, a well / of dark water, a prayer. / And I recall his hands, / two measures of tenderness / he laid against my face…”
From the moving poem The Gift by Li-Young Lee
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Detail from The Kiss, Gustave Klimt
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Sketch of a life belt, Leonardo da Vinci
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Surprise in Terror, Joseph Ducreux, 1790
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