December 2011
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acheiropoietos hiatus
i won’t be around for a while because tomorrow i fly home to spend christmas at home with my family.
i’ll be back by new years.
i wish everyone a wonderful and blessed christmas leaving with the words of Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1435-1515)
“I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very...
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“All art is nostalgia for God.”
– Alexei Jawlensky (via chary)
“And we were simple and subject to all.”
– The Testament of St. Francis of Assisi (via shortbreadsh)
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what does one even write in a christmas card to one’s priest?
thanks for being such a great deacon is not going to cut it here
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there’s a hildegard von bingen movie??!
so many different iterations of my signature over the course of signing all the christmas cards
do i even have a signature????
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thanks, i make them!
or i used to when i wasn’t busy doing all these other things
invisibleforeigner replied to your photo: hi tumblr
I like your headband!
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the prose in my christmas cards is pretty much on the level of a six year old
i can be pretty eloquent in any paper on whatever topic but when i try to express sentiments to anyone it’s just like i like you alot and i hope that you have a really nice christmastime thank you alot for everything nice you do for me all the time love rachel
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Anonymous asked: r you christian orthodox?
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shortbreadsh asked: if you had to live the rest of your life with either the inability to read (and I guess, hear read aloud) text or to see art (as traditionally defined), which would you choose?!?!?
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“I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart out of me!”
– Statement made by me to friend facing impending final exam
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this is currently my only career option
either indiana jones or a history dectective
u-n-d-o-m-i-e-l:
i want to be indiana jones
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today my grown-up grad student friend from school referred to me as the baby art historian
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uh yeah today i went to new york to look at the dead sea scrolls and now it seems sort of absurd that i put so much time and thought into studying these tiny little pieces of old parchment. like who even cares right
JUST KIDDING IT WAS RAD MANUSCRIPTS FOR EVER
Disillusioned Young Immigrant Kills Himself,... →
This made me cry.
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get excited because wow who is filling up the #byzantine tag? who could it be?
oh yeah it’s me
oh
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS
the cuppboard: Reblog with Your Favorite Prayer →
kormosendre:
shortbreadsh:
cuppboard:
I am interested and hoping to be introduced to some new and beautiful prayers! :) I will put forth the Prayer of Philaret, Met. of Moscow as one of mine:
My Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee. Thou and Thou alone knowest my needs. Thou lovest me more than I am able to love Thee. O Father, grant unto me, Thy servant, all which I cannot ask.
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absurd feelings about people i’ve never actually met
guys
don’t
i just wanted
“I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why ;...”
– Emily Dickinson (via aweekofkindness
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the dies irae just came on shuffle and it immediately made me think of the 19th, when all my papers are due
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suddenly i am interested in the industry and culture of being sad
like professional mourners in ancient greece! and there was such a huge victorian culture devoted to being sad about things. i want to write about the physical attributes of sadness, like jewelry made out of dead people’s hair and stuff
i want to do an independent study on melodramatic sadness i want to write a short novel...
Anonymous asked: Your blog is my absolute favorite.
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i started eating cake at 9:00 this morning and then i kept eating cake intermittently until 3:00 and now it’s 6:00 and i still haven’t had anything but cake and ice cream
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mussorgsky/dvorak/shostakovitch concert tonight
i’m
excited
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in the 1640s in england there was a man named Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebon
the eldest son of Praise-God Barebon
who wants to marry me and name our firstborn Blessed -Is -The- Man- That -Walketh -Not- In- The- Counsel -Of- The -Ungodly -Nor- Standeth- In- The- Way -Of -Sinners -Nor Sitteth- In -The- Seat- Of -The Scornful?