ambedo n. a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life
“Children going home from school.”
Chillicothe, Ohio, February 1940
35mm negative for the Farm Security Administration
[via Shorpy]
[image: photoset of various animals with melanism]
(the opposite of Albinism)
Gorgeous.
Anne Sexton, “January 24th”
From Selected Poems of Anne Sexton (via liquidnight)
(Source: shinedarkness)
Ray Bradbury and other famous authors on truth vs. fiction (via explore-blog)