Humania

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Steel Orchid. She stands, tiny and fragile behind the iron fence, then graciously she accepts the gift of a flower and puts it in her hair. ...

Ophelia by John Everett Millais. We've been deep in the dark waters of Scorpio lately. You may have been diving for pearls, but sometime...

Hokusai's Great Wave print (1831). Watch the wave. Water is pulled up into its belly. Some pushed forward from the ocean and some sucked...

Giant showers of caramel glitter, acid green parasols of fire, ruby red rain. And the real rain came in thin drenching sheets. And our faces...

Prometheus, the revolutionary fire-stealing Titan whom historian Richard Tarnas argues should be associated with the planet Uranus. I agre...

Here in Oxford, we are having an extraordinarily beautiful autumn. The leaves are lambent red and gold, yellow and bright green. The air is ...

I'm afraid I've had to take down Captain Haddock, so here's another bearded sailor instead. "Billions of blistering barnacl...