♥ 11
→ 26 May 13 at 1 am
→ 26 May 13 at 1 am
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene I (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)
♥ 3
→ 23 May 13 at 11 pm
→ 23 May 13 at 11 pm
Before setting out on the expedition Tenzing Norgay sought the blessing of his mother, Kinzom, at Thyangboche monastery. She wanted to be sure he was fit and well enough to go; having satisfied herself, she returned to her home.
Explorers, adventurers, will always have a place in my heart.
♥ 11
→ 23 May 13 at 6 am
→ 23 May 13 at 6 am
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Goethe wrote a poem for Marianne von Willemer, the wife of a Frankfurt banker, using the Gingko tree as symbol of his friendship with her. The Gingko tree, which inspired Goethe (planted in 1795), stood in the garden of Heidelberg Castle, and it is from this tree that he pasted the two leaves shown in the poem written in his hand, above.
Ginkgo Biloba (1815, translated)
This tree’s leaf, which here the East
In my garden propagates,
On its secret sense we feast
Such as sages elevates.
Is it but one being single
Which as same itself divides?
Are there two which choose to mingle
So that one each other hides?
As the answer to such question
I have found a sense that’s true:
Is it not my songs’ suggestion
That I’m one and also two?
♥ 2196
→ 22 May 13 at 8 pm
→ 22 May 13 at 8 pm
Ernest Hemingway, center, photographed for the Oak Park High School football team, November 1915
(via wordpainting)
♥ 1166
→ 22 May 13 at 6 am
→ 22 May 13 at 6 am
You and me and coffee in the mornings, wrapped up in blankets with each other on the porch watching the sun rise through the trees as the light graces our drowsy faces. It kisses us, almost as gently and sweetly as we kiss one another. I can see us doing devotionals and journaling together as the noises of the forest begin to stir and build into a beautiful chorus of birds and growth and love overflowing from two hearts made one.
^Can I find someone like this, please?
(Source: itsawolf, via utterlylackadaisical)
