FerG

Ingeniero, Escultor, Curioso maniático, admirador de la belleza, la precisión y la perfección.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is not a photograph, and it's not an oil painting. It might be the most unbelievable watercolor ever made...

It's called Sommarnöje, which means something like Summer Delight, and Anders Zorn painted it in 1886. Look at the water, the gentle ripples, the reflections, the wet sheen of it, and then look at the two people, the fine detail of the wooden rowboat, the woman's white dress, the light on her face.

It has the near-photographic realism of an oil painting, and it was done in watercolor, a medium so unforgiving that a single wrong stroke ruins the entire piece.

Zorn painted this in the first summer of his marriage: the woman in white waiting on the pier is his new wife, Emma, whom he had married only months before. They had just come back from their honeymoon and were staying with her family at Dalarö near Stockholm, still looking for the home where they would spend their life. The man rowing toward her is their friend Carl Gustav Dahlström. It is a real moment from the happiest season of a young couple's life, caught and held forever.

In 2010 this single sheet of watercolor sold for twenty-six million Swedish kronor, over three million dollars, the highest price ever paid for a Swedish painting.

In his own lifetime, Zorn was celebrated above all for two things: his handling of light, and his ability to paint water. Sommarnöje is where you see exactly why...

[literland @literlandweb1]

“La infancia es felicidad, la adolescencia, amor; y el resto, literatura”.
Luis Landero

[literland @literlandweb1]

"Vivimos tiempos oscuros, en los que los peores han perdido el miedo y los mejores, la esperanza".
Hanna Arendt

[Cementerio De Libros @Cementedelibros]

Así pongo fin a tu cuento

[Faburalia @faburalia]

El alma...

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Alan Watts shares the most profound view on life I've ever heard:

[💵 @blessedtashi]

no matter what, i can go inward & be present with my higher self, it is safe there, the real me, whole & fulfilled, i am divinely loved & cared for ♡

[Wild at Heart @emmanu_elle_]

Jan Bogaerts

Primeveres
1936

[Andrea @andrea_drea05]

An Affair to Remember (Tú y yo, 1957)

Es considerada una de las películas románticas más clásicas e icónicas de la historia del cine. 

Deborah Kerr y Cary Grant.

[FerG @WizzFer]

@Marion436842126 Wellcome back Marion

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🫀BREAKING: Heart attacks may actually be caused by bacterial infections.

A groundbreaking study from Tampere University and the University of Oxford is reshaping our understanding of what causes heart attacks.

Long blamed primarily on cholesterol and lifestyle factors, new research now points to a hidden culprit: bacterial infections.

Scientists discovered that within the fatty plaques of coronary arteries, bacterial biofilms—gel-like communities of bacteria—can lie dormant and undetected for years. These microbial invaders, particularly strains like viridans streptococci commonly found in the mouth, evade immune detection and traditional antibiotics by embedding themselves deep within plaque tissue.

The danger arises when the body is hit with a viral infection, which ramps up immune activity and disturbs the biofilms. That disturbance can reactivate the bacteria, triggering a sudden surge of inflammation. In turn, this can weaken arterial plaques, causing them to rupture and form clots—leading to heart attacks. Researchers were able to map these biofilms in tissue from patients who died from cardiac arrest and found that antibodies could unmask their full structure. This discovery could pave the way for new diagnostics or even vaccines to prevent infection-triggered heart attacks, signaling a major shift in cardiovascular medicine.

Source: Viridans Streptococcal Biofilm Evades Immune Detection and Contributes to Inflammation and Rupture of Atherosclerotic Plaques. Journal of the American Heart Association, 2025.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

there is this one Carl Jung line:

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Cinema will always be pure magic. Chaplin made it magical beyond words.

[☥ Yuge Bigly🌹 @space_treasure8]

Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr's personal diary, examined after his death, contains this entry about his meeting with Anandamayi Ma: “Met an Indian holy woman today. She asked me to explain quantum superposition. I did the observer effect, wave-particle duality, and the measurement problem. When I finished, she smiled and said, "So, your science has finally discovered what we've known for 5,000 years. Consciousness collapses possibility into actuality. The observer creates the observed. You are the universe observing itself."
Then she laughed. I couldn't speak. How did an uneducated village woman articulate in 30 seconds, what took me 30 years to understand?

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Principle 8: “Midlife is not a crisis—it’s a summons.”

Jung reframed midlife suffering as a turning point.

The first half of life builds the ego.
The second half asks a deeper question:

Who are you beyond achievement?

Ignoring that call leads to depression.

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

baby and cat blaming each other