Alexander Calder, Mucca (La Vache), 1971 - From The Peggy Guggenheim Collection In Venice, Italy

Some days, I choose to be an adventurer.

Tweed coat

Details from a cathedral in Dublin.

Tuscany

Sorry, dark academia friends, I have an even darker side.

Current Mood

“I am a child with an old soul. I see magic in everything. But at the same time , everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply.”

–Juansendizon

Also current mood.

Thank you @bigode59 and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

Now this is wisdom. I mean, the source title says it all.

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear” (via soracities)

Thank you to everyone who got me to 1000 likes!