@fraveris "Am hard at work again, still on orchards in bloom. The air here is definitely doing me good, I wish you could fill your lungs with it."
- The letters of Vincent van Gogh
“In August in Mississippi, there are a few days somewhere around the middle of the month when, suddenly, there is a foretaste of fall. It is cool, and there is a lambency—a soft, luminous quality—to the light.”
— William Faulkner, on the title Light in August
“August.
Backlit by peach and sugar sunsets.
And the sun in the evening like the stone in the fruit. […]”
(Federico García Lorca)
Josef Kote (Albania) - "Healing"
@catturd2 Three children were killed by their own mother. The children were the victims—not the mother, regardless of whether she heard voices in her head. They deserved to live, to grow up, and to have a future. Justice for the children.