Sebastián Gaviero

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

Corazón de Carlos II de Navarra, Iglesia de Santa María, Ujué.

[soli @solisolsoli]

By Roger Haus

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind...

The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life.

Everything is in the way they sit.

The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything.

His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre.

Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy...

And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did."

It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

@Anatolian2023 Σαρπηδών

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

Tipos que vienen realizando 20 años de ingeniería capilar descubriendo por vez primera un mapamundi.

[Daniel Kapp @DanielKapp]

wait? hold on...?! is there a Spanish colonial occupation in North Africa?

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

@rtvenoticias Pues esos son los estados naturales del español medio: incertidumbre, confusión y cansancio.

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

Mientras tanto en Ceuta...

[π @Harold_Dedalus]

Roma

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

The Hunt by Night - Paolo Uccello, 1470

[marysocontrary @so_contrary]

🎬 The Warriors / dir. Walter Hill

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

De acuerdo. Con el equipo de filmación se fumarán $98 y hará la peli con $2.

[Oedipa Maas @bridgietherease]

Jodorowsky is still around, how about somebody gives him $100 million to make an esoterically accurate Odyssey

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

@UTDIMole Patxi Butragueño, the legendary Athletic Bilbao central defender.

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

@Nwigwe_praise He's still the fucking man.

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

'Composition' 1934, Woodcut, Bertalan Göndör (1908 - 1945).

[Sebastián Gaviero @SebastinGa26036]

- ¿Le cuento un secreto? A mí me gusta jugar a los misterios.
- Sí, ya sé que es un juego.

Invasión (1969), Hugo Santiago.

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

Woman ties up her shoes on the pavement, Portofino, Italy, 1977. Photo by Slim Aarons.