Bernadette Horgan

music, books, the arts, the outdoors, travel, friends, family, conversation, always looking to see more

[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

"Vivre est un privilège. Ce n'est pas un dû. Alors on doit avoir la Politesse, l'Élégance, de profiter du fait d'être vivant pour que cette vie soit belle. La conscience de notre privilège doit engendrer un comportement."
Olivier de Kersauson

[MOON LOVER @M1ONLOVER]

Full Moon

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Mozart speaks on genius:

“True genius without heart is an absurdity. For it is not high intellect alone, not imagination, not even both together that make genius. Love, love, love is the soul of genius.”

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before.

The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride.

It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.

Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

If you need to get out of loneliness, here’s what I recommend:

Practice the opposite-signal strategy.

When people feel lonely, the instinct is to cocoon, isolate, and wait for the feeling to pass. But that instinct comes from the limbic system, and in this state, it is often misleading.

Loneliness impairs the brain’s executive function. The very feelings that tell you to pull back are the ones keeping you stuck.

Practicing the opposite-signal strategy looks like this:
When you want to withdraw, don’t.
When you don’t want to talk, talk.

It works the same way physical inactivity works. The less you move, the less you want to move. Once you break the cycle, momentum returns. Loneliness follows the same pattern.

You don’t wait to feel better before reaching out. You reach out so that feeling better becomes possible.

[Nature & Animals🌴 @naturelife_ok]

mumma sea otter with her pup 🦦😴

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

And all at once,
summer
collapsed into
fall.

—Oscar Wilde

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

- Marcus Aurelius

(art: Mary Bradish Titcomb: Morning Coffee)

[Kerria @Kerria]

Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for everyone who needs one✨

[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

“Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. That struggle is to find in each new day, all over again the beauty of self; the beauty of nature, the beauty of the immediate.”
- Robert Henri

(art: Molly Brett)

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

Happiness is made up of two ingredients: meaning and purpose. The problem is that most people believe they are the same thing. Here's why that's wrong—and how to use both to finally feel fulfillment. https://t.co/tlTlLjkyA1

[Ugo Ramella @RamellaUgo]

Nicodemo a destra è ancora impegnato con le tenaglie nello staccare il chiodo dai piedi di Gesù assistito da Giovanni che regge le gambe di Cristo. Maddalena bacia i piedi insanguinati inginocchiandosi a terra formando col mantello rosso una figura di stampo giottesco. Il⬇️1️⃣

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, by Yamamoto Baiitsu, 1850, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

To be read with ALL the gusto and passion you can muster.

(Honestly, give it the most heroic recitation you can, and you shall be handsomely rewarded.)

'The West Wind' by John Masefield.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."
~ Seneca

Orchard in Spring (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley

[Art Beyond Subjectivity @JScotteswood]

16 - And now, you know how to tell them apart, right?

If you enjoyed this, follow me
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for more on architecture, art, and the beauty of Italy — one post at a time.

Sources:
The Development of Italian Gothic Architecture
Vitruvius and the Architecture of the Renaissance
Bernini and the Theater of the Baroque
Evolution of Window Design in Italian Churches
Italian Sculpture and Architectural Influence
Caravaggio and the Birth of Baroque Drama
Official sites: Duomo di Milano, Santa Maria Novella, Sant’Agnese in Agone

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
~ Albert Camus

Spring Flowers (1930)
🎨 Marc Chagall