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Path under the Rose Trellises Claude Monet (1840-1926)

'Roofs, High Holborn.' (1937) Lily Joseph's view was painted from her studio in Bedford Row looking towards the Old Bailey. Her palette was almost exclusively of white, cobalt, rose madder and the rare orange madder. In her day, Lily was a noted Suffragette.

Andrii Kovalyk

This idyllic portrayal of a “green and pleasant land” at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment was painted by Stanley Spencer close to the village where he was living during WW2 (Landscape, Gloucestershire, 1940)

#GoSeeArt 'Lightshift' Irish painter Hannah Mooney’s 1st solo exhibition in Ireland. From the changing light of the western landscape to studies of flowers, exploring light & darkness, turbulence, calm & resonance of place. Exhibition, Gormleys, Dublin from 10 – 30 September.

The real purpose of wealth is to have the calm to live your life your way. It's to have the freedom to slow down. To spend your days doing things that you actually care about. That’s what money is really for. Not to impress strangers. Or to collect expensive distractions. But to own your time. To have a quiet breakfast without checking emails. Long dinners without looking at the clock. Conversations without feeling rushed. A calm weekend without thinking about the spreadsheet you need to turn in on Tuesday. Time to read. To think. To explore your interests. That’s real wealth. Everything else is noise.

Susan Steima

Be boring. Reject the template society gave you to live your life. Your deeper self wants to slow down. It wants to walk barefoot on the grass. Stare at the trees. Feel the warm sun on your skin. Sip tea without worrying about "what to do next". A slow, peaceful life that actually feels like yours.

The older I get, the more I realize that going to bed at 9 p.m. and waking up at 5 a.m. is an epic way to live well.

- Bordighera - Claude Monet (1840–1926) 🇫🇷

St. Hildegard von Bingen, Book of Divine Works, Part 1, Vision 4: Cosmos, Body, and Soul c.1230.

Don't assign group projects. They turn a good, conscientious student’s care for their own grade into an obligation to do everyone else’s work. This is a poor facsimile for collaboration and the only teaching value is that the student will learn exactly why competent adults hate working in committees.

Mike Hall (British 1937-2025), Chair in the Conservatory, Acrylic on board

Lake Attersee (1900) Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

I think people underestimate how much of a luxury it is to genuinely like your normal day. not the holiday, not the birthday, not the reservation. literally thursday

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.” ― J. R. R. Tolkien

I will return to this paragraph by C. S. Lewis at least once a week until the day I die

"Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Miroco Machiko.

There’s coming a time when people will say, “You can’t expect kids to learn how to read. There’s no way millions of children used to do it. It never happened.” And at that point it will be up to the rest of us to remember, and to build a new culture from the ashes of the old.