If you’re struggling, you deserve to make self-care a priority. Whether that means lying in bed all day, eating comfort food, putting off homework, crying, sleeping, rescheduling plans, finding an escape through a good book, watching your favorite tv show, or doing nothing at all — give yourself permission to put your healing first. Quiet the voice telling you to do more and be more, and today, whatever you do, let it be enough. Feel your feelings, breathe, and be gentle with yourself. Acknowledge that you’re doing the best you can to cope and survive. And trust that during this time of struggle, it’s enough.

Daniell Koepke

Juan de Flandes, Herodias’ Revenge, 1496
At a party Herod promises the daughter of his new wife that she can have whatever she desires. Her mother Herodias tells her to demand the head of John the Baptist, the man who heavily criticized her marriage to Herod and who happened to be in the palace jail. Reluctantly Herod orders the beheading of John.

Here the daughter shows the head to Herod and Herodias. Herodias holds a knife, perhaps ready to cut John’s tongue. The tongue nor the name of the daughter are mentioned in the Bible. Other sources suggest the daughter’s name was Salome.

This oak panel was part of an altarpiece devoted to the life of St. John. The remainders of the polyptych are scattered over several museums. Juan de Flandes painted it in commission for the Spanish queen Isabella. It was meant for the convent of Miraflores, near Burgos. In 1809 a French general in Napoleon’s army took it to France. The Belgian collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh bought it in 1899. At the time it was attributed to Lucas van Leyden.

Last text messages from the victims of the Daegu subway fire on February 18, 2003.
Rough translations:

“I’m sorry. I won’t be able to deliver the bag and shoes I was going to make you Donkkatsu too… sorry… my daughter. I love you.”

“I’m tired of you hahahhahahahaha go away bye bye" 

"There’s a fire. I’m going to heaven first.”

“Even without oppa, make sure to eat properly and listen to your parents… Ok? Haha. And don’t wait for me I’m not coming.”

“Oppa has important business so I’ll be gone for a while. Don’t wait for me and go back home. Ok? I love you.”

“Hahaha don’t wait for me hahaa I got tired of you bye!”

“Study hard and grow up well daddy is sorry”

“ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ <- How I feel”

“Yeah there’s a fire on the subway report it right away don’t worry and keep calm. Ok? Oppa is okay.”

“If i suddenly wasn’t there tomorrow what are you going to do? I’m just asking because I’m curious haha”

“Don’t wait for me”

“I’m so sorry for getting angry with you this morning dear I love you forever”

슬프다.
“숨을 못 쉬겠어요. 살려줘요…" 
"여보 사랑해요, 애들 보고 싶어!" 
(사고 발생 8분후 통화기록중) 

Sad.
"I can not breathe. Help me …”
“Honey, I love you guys want to see!”
(8 minutes after the call log of the incident)

The Irish Sky Garden Crater
Located at the Liss Ard Estate Gardens in Cork County, Ireland; the James Turrell Irish Sky Garden Crater is an amazing sculptural land art installation by famed artist James Turrell. The Irish Sky Garden Crater measures about 25 meters (82 ft) in length, dipping almost 13 meters (42ft) at it’s lowest depth.

The man-made hollow is accessed via a dark concrete tunnel flanked by Liscannor stone, featuring a white marble stone that reflects the light from the rim of the crater during the day. The design is based on a birthing scenario, where visitors walk through the dark tunnel into the light. “It’s about rebirth and optimism, its experiential and it nurtures the desire to walk towards the light (into the crater). It evokes powerful reactions in people,” says Arthur Little, the manager of Liss Ard estate.

The space has been constructed to view the sky while lying on large stones placed in the centre of the crater. The crater’s edge, hovering in your peripheral vision, perfectly frames the infinite and endlessly changing sky. “The most important thing is that inside turns into outside and the other way around, in the sense that relationships between the Irish landscape and sky changes,” says artist James Turrell of his work.

Kodiak bears at Olympic Game Farm in Washington
The bears are two of many animal residents of the game park which are owned by Lloyd and Catherine Beebe, who retired from the film industry after 28 years of working exclusively for the Walt Disney Studio.

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

— E. E. Cummings