Mónica Sánchez

Hazy sun over flat sea

7th June 2025 07.00

'Al mar y al sol'
🎨 1922
Vasili Kandinski 👨🏻‍🎨

"The white clouds are scudding across the blue sky."
-Anne Brontë, "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day"

night & day

Clear sky, sun’s golden reflection pn flat sea.

27th May 2025 05.36

La fabulosa mariposa Melitaea en una orquidea Anacamptis en el prado de mis sueños.

pobre de la envidia, se pierde de ser, mejor, lujuria, gula o pereza

Looking in

Sun reflected on flat sea

25th May 2025 06.26

"The trick to learning is enjoying.
If you're not having fun, you're not learning.
There's a pleasure in finding things out."
Richard Feynmann

A gift from a raven

Retrato de Uruguay, el país que sorprende al mundo Juan José Millás viajó allí para encontrarse con el atípico presidente José Mujica El mandatario recibió al escritor en su humilde casa y en su despacho El político y Millás viajaron juntos hasta la r...

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"El ideal supremo fuera crear espíritus absolutamente nuevos, órganos únicos, a ser posible, en la máquina del progreso. Fabricar órganos dóciles e intercambiables, denota que el maestro se ha preocupado más de sí mismo que de su país y de la Ciencia."
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Coastal cloud, northerly swell.

15th May 2025 05.38

Estudio de nubes

Estudio de nubes https://www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velasco/estudio-de-nubes-2

L'albatros

A happy smiling fish on a Roman mosaic from Great Witcombe Roman villa Gloucestershire

It's Bank Holiday #MosaicMonday !

Here's the happiest fish in the #Roman Empire to celebrate

He's one cheery fella 🐠

From the frigidarium of the bathhouse at Great Witcombe villa #Gloucestershire

📷 English Heritage. For more see:

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Getty Museum image of a Roman hemispherical, blue and white mosaic cast glass bowl. Made using dark blue (cobalt) and white (antimony and tin oxide) rods which were placed together, cut into sections, formed into a disc, then fused and slumped over a mould. Dimensions: Height 5.2 cm × diameter 10.2 cm. 1st century BC. Made in a workshop in the eastern Mediterranean.

Stunning 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic cast glass bowl.

A wonderful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers!

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#Archaeology

Un niño de unos cinco años que ha perdido a su madre entre la muchedumbre de una feria se acerca a un agente de la policía y le pregunta: “¿No ha visto usted a una señora que anda sin un niño como yo?”
"Los cinco cuentos más cortos", Gabriel García Márquez.

Motto In the dark times, Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. —Brecht

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My name is Lucas Andreas. Today I feel like a bright light shining in the sky. Sometimes I am a moon. Sometimes I am a sun. But always I am a star. I ask the world, Do we need more people to shine? And the answer is Yes, we need more bright lights in the sky. —poem by a child named Lucas

As funding for the arts is being slashed, I think of this poem by a child named Lucas, shared online by his family.

Without the arts, the souls of the next generation will be silenced, which is precisely what tyrants want. As Lucas says, "we need more bright lights in the sky."

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper by Joseph Fasano Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.

It's final paper season.

For Those Who Try to Cut Funding for the Arts I know you won’t be reading this anyway. But maybe, alone under the covers, a child with a light in the darkness is opening the first words of a story, a story that your hands would try to close now. Whatever you do for the darkness that child with the light will survive you. —Joseph Fasano

Amber glow. Sun rises above the cloud

5th May 2025 06.02

Trotes.

Crepuscular rays from behind a bank of cloud

4th May 2025 05.43

Among the birds