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Love the red color!! #homedecor #homedecoration #festive #reds #plantsofinstagram #plants #holidayspirit #holidayseason #holidays #winter #fireplace (at Aurora, Colorado)

Saint Petersburg Mosque @

2.06 // 3.06

I love summer and I’ve always loved summer and 90 degrees and the smallest, thinnest tops and cherries on the porch and fireflies and ice pops at night. And you were always praying for fall and leaves and cinnamon which were sometimes great in their own way but they weren’t summer. And that was us and that’s why we didn’t work. We were two completely different kinds of people that were both sometimes great but never at the same time and never in the same ways.

(via i-wrotethisforme)

My child: Who became President after Obama?

Me:

Why spend even one day searching for someone else when it could take a lifetime to find yourself?

E.G. (via whatisthenormal)

Why spend even one day searching for someone else when it could take a lifetime to find yourself?

E.G. (via whatisthenormal)

Sometimes a hello is an ‘I hope I get to know you,’ sometimes it’s an ‘I’ve missed you,’ sometimes it’s a 'God, I love you,’ and sometimes it’s just a 'hello.’

(via i-wrotethisforme)

Your past is just a lesson, not a life sentence.

Unknown (via deeplifequotes)

How Many Species Share Our Planet?

The answer: we have NO IDEA. Most taxonomists think that we have not even begun to discover all the species that live on Earth.  After nearly 250 years of organized study and exploration, and the finding of over 15,000 new living beings each year, taxonomists are still uncomfortable giving concrete estimates. And they are the experts! What makes counting species so hard?

Scientists have identified and named nearly 8.7 million species, but that number is constantly challenged by scientists presenting new methods and models for estimating how many more we have to find. Statistical models are the most inexact of sciences. And scientists are proposing new models for estimating the number of species every year, each with wildly different numbers.

But it’s not just statistics. One of the biggest reasons we do not know how many species share our planet is that 99 percent of all potential living space is under the ocean, and we humans have explored less than 10 percent of it.

Autumn Sun in Patagonia by Max Rive

So I’ll remain within your reign, until my thoughts can travel somewhere new… and I wonder if you wonder about me too. 

“Champions, to your flags…”

– Die All, Die Merrily

she was a queen with neither crown nor kingdom, the most powerful piece on the board with no moves left to make, so she overturned the table.

l.s. | CHRYSALIS © 2016 (via these-sacred-walls)

We are writers, my love. We don’t cry, We bleed on paper.

@inksomniac (via wnq-writers)

“He still asks about you, you know.” She gets a pang of longing and hurt in her chest. “I know.” She whispers “Do you ever think about getting in contact again?” She’s silent for a moment. “I would love nothing more than to run to him.” She says, smiling, thinking back to him. “But so much happened. So much hurt. I was broken after it ended. I can’t risk having to say goodbye again, it destroyed me for a long time. So would I want to? I would love nothing more. Will I? No.”

(via melindacarolinee)

“Would you take him back?” She hesitated and placed her hand over her heart. She let out a deep sigh “You know I cried uncontrollably every day for weeks. I sobbed and screamed, begging for the pain to go away. I prayed so hard, so fucking hard for him to come back to me. Maybe if he reached out to me durning those days I would’ve taken him back in a heartbeat.” “But he didn’t” “One day I just grew tired of crying myself to sleep and feeling so damn exhausted in the morning. I was tired of walking around feeling nothing and everything all at once. I was sick of being broken while he was perfectly okay.” “That day I realized if he truly did care for me, truly loved me he wouldn’t have caused me that much pain and sorrow. He ran out of chances, he ran out of time, he ran out of my love.”

“to answer your question: no” (via damagedlips)

♥ The Ancient Origin of the Heart-Shaped Valentine ♥

This very rare coin is a silver hemidrachm struck in Cyrene (modern Libya) around 500 to 480 BC. Both sides of the coin show the now extinct* heart-shaped silphium fruit. The silphium plant, a large relative of the fennel plant, was abundant and a lucrative cash crop in ancient Cyrene, which is why it appears as the symbol of the city on its coinage.

Since it allegedly went extinct, silphium is a bit mysterious to us. We do know that it was greatly prized for its medicinal and culinary properties. It was  used as an herbal birth control method, thus forever associating the shape of its fruit with passionate love and thus, matters of the heart. Ancient writings also help tie silphium to sexuality and love. One such reference appears in Pausanias’ Description of Greece in a story of the Dioscuri staying at a house belonging to Phormion, a Spartan: “For it so happened that his maiden daughter was living in it. By the next day this maiden and all her girlish apparel had disappeared, and in the room were found images of the Dioscuri, a table, and silphium upon it.”

Pliny reported in his Natural History that the last known stalk of silphium found in Cyrene was given to the Emperor Nero “as a curiosity,” because it was nearly extinct by then.

*There is some debate about whether or not this plant is really extinct. You can read about that on the Silphium Wikipedia page.

You don’t lose when you push away the wrong people. There’s some people you truly need to take out and keep out of your life.

Unknown (via deeplifequotes)

“What pains you?” he asked one night. I breathed, looked at him and said, “You.”

because you are honest at 2am // Genefe Navilon (via theprocast)

Migration Period Jewelry, 5th-6th Century AD

Ring made of gold, garnet, agate and glass. Earrings made of gold, garnet, lapis lazuli, red carnelian, pearl and chalcedony.

Hi-Res stills for “War and Peace”. More pictures here.