Seán Ó Flaithimh

"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself."
― Camille Claudel
#Art #Sculpture

You were a thoughtful looking chap. Beautiful snap of you all.

A depiction of various helms associated to months.

I’m a Jousting Frogmouth. That’s my helmet sign too…

August and stylin’!

Alexander Booth. Carnation. 2025. (Red cover, black script, abstract monotype within a black frame)

Paul Eluard. Répétitions. Dessins de Max Ernst. A Paris au sans pareil. [1922] (Red cover, black script, b/w collage of three hands two of which are threading an eye, within a black frame)

Reflections : Carnation / Répétitions

I’m glad you’re ok, and you’re right, it’s a real thing. Research also shows a spike in heart attacks and stroke risk.

I once asked you “how long will tomorrow last?” Eternity and a Day (1998)

Eternity and a Day

Picture of Dorothy Day along with the text: “We would not recognize the saint if we met him on the street corner today. He would be ‘the crank,’ the ‘unbalanced,’ the ‘trouble maker…’” Attribution: @theo_the_catholic_worker

I may need to shore up the collection then, it’s borderline.

Ha! At least a dozen.

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
―José Saramago, Blindness
#BookSky

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Tolkien

Beautiful. His use of eucatastrophe was cinematic in my young mind, I was not surprised that his work would so well adapt to film.

I didn’t expect to feel the way I did when I clicked on the last grid. Wow.

two men over a prone dummy, one with notepad one with a gun

"You take notes while I shoot this dummy right in the dick"

Wonderful news. Congratulations to you all.

Goodnight.

Goodnight.

US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%

US banks, after pulling out of global agreements to avoid financing climate change, "now expect a 3C world" expected lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods& economic strife

On the upside, the banks think the air conditioning sector could grow by 41%

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I should be asleep but instead I’m reading Merton’s pre-monastic journals.

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

Did you see SNL’s “Department Of Undoing Healthcare and Child Education,” aka DOUCHE? lol.

Hoping you’re all ok.

‘Bad dreams, go away. Nightmares, leave this child alone. She's a good girl, let her have only good dreams. Hear my plea... May the bad dreams go away. May nightmares leave this child alone. She's a good girl, let her have only good dreams. Let her have happy dreams, full of pretty flowers. Let her dream she's dancing, wearing lovely clothes…’

To Whom it concern: Goodnight
(From “Territory of Light,” by Yuko Tsushima)

:)

Also (presumably) lower prices of untaxed cigs will encourage more consumption.

Part of the reason they’re taxed is to help deal with the externalities that smoking shifts to the larger society.