Gina 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈ᐰ🎀

Proud LA girl who finds creative spaces for peeps, arts lover, travel fanatic, tech geek, proud Kiwanian, 4th gen Dodgers fan & living life to the fullest!

[Glory of Mind @GloryOfMind]

8 Underrated hobbies that secretly make you smarter:

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[Think And Earn Big @ThinkEarnBig]

7 Japanese Philosophies That Changed My Life:

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[theendeavorpath @theendeavorpath]

11 Greatest Theories I know at 40, I wish I knew at 20:

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[Philosophy Monk @PhilosophyMonk]

8 Underrated hobbies that secretly make you smarter:

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.

He is the oldest being in Middle-earth, completely immune to the Ring's power, and — unfortunately — overlooked by a huge swathe of readers.

"Readers" is indeed the right word to use here, since Tom Bombadil is so confounding that Peter Jackson cut him out of the films entirely: if you've never read the books, you've likely never heard of him.

But despite the enigma that he is, Bombadil plays an incredibly important role in deciphering the underlying ethics of Tolkien's Middle-earth, and the key to overcoming evil.

In this article, we explore what the mysterious character of Bombadil reveals not only about the world Tolkien created, but about the author's own worldview as well. For in the words of Tolkien himself, Bombadil "represents something that I feel [is] important" — which is an understatement if there ever were one.

"Even in a mythical age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)." -J.R.R. Tolkien
https://t.co/ydBJkopdzX

[World Scholar @WorldScholar_]

Architecture is the body of cities, the heart of cultures and the soul of the people.

Here's one wonder from every major architectural style... 🧵

1. Gothic — Strasbourg Cathedral, France (1439)

[Gina 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈ᐰ🎀 @ginaluvstravel]

I'm curious...how many instrumental performers have created their own score after performing in an orchestral band (?) for a movie?? 🤔🤨😀 #music #Orchestra #classicmusic #movies #Movie

[Today In History @historigins]

The most surreal phenomena ever captured on camera. 🧵

⚠️ Warning: you're going to hallucinate!

1. The sea in the sky.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

"Beauty will save the world."
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

Here are ten soul-stirring sculptures that capture the raw, transcendent beauty of human creativity. 🧵

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Thread on what famous architectural landmarks would look like if they were restored or completed using drones 🧵

1. Whitby Abbey, England

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The most beautiful tombs on Earth - thread🧵

1. Tomb of Napoleon in Paris

[Gina 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈ᐰ🎀 @ginaluvstravel]

ONE. MORE. WIN!!! #LosAngelesDodgers #WorldSeries 💙💙💙🧢🧢🧢

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

You've seen this before. It's the "treasury" of the ancient, rock-cut city of Petra.

But do you know what it actually is — or more interesting, what's inside?

It isn't what you might expect... (thread) 🧵

[𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝔂𝓷𝓪 𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓪𝔂 @ValentyneDreams]

In a magical dream.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Many of Europe's greatest architectural wonders were lost to history — or willingly demolished.

Here are some you haven't heard of... 🧵

1. Neue Elbbrücke Bridge: torn down to add an additional lane

[Gina 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈ᐰ🎀 @ginaluvstravel]

I loved living in London!!! Miss it still... 😍🫶 #travel #London #England

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

What exactly is preventing you from moving to London?

[Today In History @historigins]

Places on Earth that don't seem real - thread 🧵

1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Places on Earth that look too magical to be real

A Thread 🧵

1. Giant Groundsels plants found on top of Mt Kilimanjaro