#capricious

[writinginthesecrettrees]

Two Words My Mother (a very well educated woman in her 60s) Did Not Know Before Today:

(a) Crepuscular. relating to twilight; also, animals that are most active at dawn and dusk. My mom had literally never heard this word before in her life.

(b) Capricious. prone to sudden an unpredictable changes. My mom had heard this one, but she thought it mean "evil like a devil goat."

#vocabulary #words #crepuscular #capricious #did you know these words? #i was very surprised they were not in my mom's lexicon

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?"

-- Stephen Fry

"Because he'll send you to be tortured in a pit of fire for eternity if you don't" isn't the vindication you think it is.

#Stephen Fry #capricious #stupid god #god is stupid #god creates evil #suffering #god of suffering #god of pain #religion

[poligraf]

« Capricious Forms » by Wassily Kandinsky

#art #artwork #painting #paintings #oil #canvas #oil on canvas #oil paintings #oil painting #capricious #form #forms #capricious forms #wassily kandinsky #kandinsky #colourful #colorful #colours #colors #abstract art #abstract painting #abstract paintings #abstract #beige #tan #pinks #purples #greens #golds #reds

[ukgk]

#capricious #artist:karoryuu okada #navyu #oldweb #y2k #ukgk #ukagaka #BBS

[local-choatic-demibi-ace]

Wip

#capricious light #doors #roblox doors #art #capricious #void #art wip #wip

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

She is her own heroine—capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.

Virginia Woolf

#quote #virginia woolf #heroine #capricious #exacting #exquisite #learned #beautifully #dressed #quotes

[themasterpupil]

hope is a fickle thing

#hope #i hope #i like words #fickle #capricious #says as smoking a spliff

[eliteprepsat]

#capricious #vocabulary #word of the day #WOTD #English #English class #learning English #SAT

[outstanding-quotes]

Sooner or later, whatever you’re waiting to hear will get itself said.

It doesn’t matter what it is: I love you or I’ll never speak to you again.

It all gets said, often in the same night.

Louise Glück, Children Coming Home from School

#louise glück #children coming home from school #poetry #quote #literature #lit #communication #love #connection #disconnection #detachment #moods #family #capricious #estrangement #mixed feelings

[omorfomyalo]

Let it find you.

Heidelberg, Germany

#heidelberg #germany #sunshine #sunset #sunnyday #sunny #streetshot #streetclassics #nature photography #mountains #tree photography #nature #travel #voyage sur le soleil #mountain photography #capricious #cloudy #cloudysky

[k-tarkovsky]

CAPRICIOUS

by May Ziadeh

Grandiose in the deep sky,

the sun said its customary goodbye

to the river, the palm trees,

the sands of this place,

and walked toward the other world.

Then the horizon sent up a sigh

and the heavens were tinged

with lilac and rose

quivering colors where rests azure

and the breath of the zephyr softens.

Cairo was hidden beneath a fine mist,

the trees swirling on the

brown banks of the Nile.

The shadow fell everywhere,

finding no danger

and covered over safely

the plains and the foam.

O Pyramids! Then it is

That, lifting up my thinking head,

I tend to wander upon your strong flanks

The echo of some plaintive voice;

But What! would it be within you

That an orphan mourns his mother?

Is it a hymn, is it a prayer,

Is it a divine moan?

But already the silence returns

Around the big black monument.

A time—my heart trembles, leaps,

Hovering with the evening breeze…

Suddenly the sounds are heard,

O God! But where do they come from?

A sweet harmony blends in…

It is the voice of Alexander.

An echo? Napoleon’s?

Is it the saber that shimmers?

Is it your statue, O Memnon,

Who falls in a moist grave?

Is it the sigh of a soldier

Deceased? A horse that rides?

Is it the cracking of a marble

Who’s been lying there for centuries?

Answer, Monuments! High Pyramids,

Centuries gone, O silent memory!

Are these songs of love

or warlike commands

that your belly purifies?

No, on your desolate coasts

It is no longer the Imperial Eagle

Who marks your sacred lands

Steps of his fiery horse—

Oh! Your flags are barely seen…

And Muhammad Ali is no longer;

All things are English.

These long, floating echoes

tickle my soul

like a breath of a breeze,

a breath of azure, a maternal kiss,

a sad and pure look,

a flash of a subtle flame,

a child’s reaching finger

that caresses my forehead,

a bird chirping, a river whispering,

a friendly smile, a cry from nature

or from the sun, a golden ray…

It was the distant marching band

that played “God Saves The King;”

It was the sure vibration of hearts

valiant and full of faith:

Museums, Beauties, Beloved Fine Arts,

Oceans, rivers, greenery,

immense azure, golden stars

who from heaven is the adornment

to you, my young ones,

to you my young intelligence,

my love and my trust,

To you, my blue and white dreams!

But no more transports.

See you soon, Pyramides,

And you, Lebanon, Beirut,

Dear Antoura, hello!

My Syria, Salvation!

As soon as I can, I’ll go back

to your clear horizons.

—May Ziadeh

pub. Is. Copia

Fleurs de Reve

“Flowers in a Dream”

(1911, Cairo)

May Ziadeh’s poem, “Capricious” published in French in Cairo, Egypt in 1911, trans. Jade Nicole beals

#may ziadeh #literature #book qoute #books & libraries #woman #art #Flowers in a Dream #Is. Copia #poetry #poet #CAPRICIOUS #khalil gibran

[ehjurart]

#commission #art #2021 #capricious #ehjur #OCs #illustration #speedpaint #timelapse

[massivedynamic17]

https://www.facebook.com/charlesjuhn/videos/2880637282236446/

#Community #Annie Edison #Tig Notaro #capricious #$5 #Capricious Caroline #alison brie

[local-choatic-demibi-ace]

#doors #roblox doors #capricious light #capricious #meme #red being an absolute bitch

[wiw3]

Spite-Writing

Those dyslexic of you might've thought that I'd written "Sprite-Writing"-- I didn't, just as much as I didn't write "Sprite-Whiting" and I certainly didn't write "Street-Fighting"--

This has gone off the rails before there were even rails to go off of-- Let me start over--

Hi, I never get it right on the first try. My first impressions are usually embarrassing, humiliating, and worthless to most individuals that I meet, though to the right eye, I suppose you could say that they're humbling experiences.

A humbling first look at me is a look you might give to a person down on their luck, because I'm usually fumbling the bag in one figurative form or another.

The point is, that it doesn't matter. I'm a being that thrives on the second chances that are given out of pity. I know myself in that regard. I never make good first impressions because I think it's good to initialize any relationship with someone's affinity for me as low as humanly-possible.

That's the way it goes, right? You systematically self-destruct to give yourself work to do because you have nothing better to do than habitually ruin relationships for the sole purpose of hopefully being able to build them back up again?

It makes me think I'm toxic, or maybe I'm just feeling particularly-toxic tonight, I think it won't matter after I wake up in the morning and need to write out an excuse as to why I can't come in to work. I have games to play at home, and mental gymnastics runs to do so that I don't fall too hard into my reality-check.

I recently read about a person's four-years of avoided depression catching up at once to them. Can that happen? I feel like with all of the subduing I do mentally-- either through tricks of the mind or through altered-substance-abuse, I think I might be doing more harm than good.

I still haven't found any better way to live, though. I treat this as a gift from God-- if we can trust that the chestnut that lives in that particular tree is sturdy and will hold up to scrutiny from 14-year-olds using 4Chan.

The point is that it doesn't matter. Let's just keep reminding each-other that as we slowly and systematically hurdle our way toward an inevitable doom, that it's important to have fun, say good things, and to hug each-other, especially toward the end bit, there...

Enjoy, the weather is beautiful outside, exquisitely-calm. I'm by no means an arborist, botanist, or botanicalist, but I see the appeal in a loam so still that the only movement in the trees are the critters naturally disturbing their natural environment in only the most natural of ways.

Let's all be like those squirrels and forage our respective nut in our own respective lane, today. I just want to do one good thing a day. I don't want to write filth, anymore.

#writing #substance abuse #tw #tw substances #tw substance abuse #lmao #maybe #blog post #having fun #let's just have fun #existentialist #doesn't matter #nothing matters #laughing at the void #what even is this #what is this headspace called #delirious #capricious #out of it #something like that

[astro1derland]

In today’s transits, Mercury at 6° Capricorn ♑️ forms a sextile with Venus at 4° Scorpio ♏️ and a trine with Jupiter at 6° Taurus ♉️. Our intellect and mind align and blend well with our ability to relate, connect and explore past-lives and align and work well with our ability to communicate creatively in an effective manner that brings abundance in a practical, meaningful, intense, and confident way.

Expect the unexpected today. Be happy with the small details today. Be happy with yourself today. Impress yourself today.

#astrology transits #love #astrology #moon #transits #venus #pisces #capricorn mercury #neptune #pluto #Astro #Capricorn #capricious #arbitrary and capricious #arbitrary #mediation #negotiations #idea #I use #I know #I see #Scorpio #scorpio taurus polarity #scorpio venus #scorpius #scorpia #astro transits #transiting #ford transit #transit authority