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Old lady yuri... It's been 27 years 🕺🕺

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Some say it's a force of cavalry, others of foot,

others of ships, but I say that the most beautiful thing

upon the black earth is whatever it is you desire.

It's easy enough to make this plain to all:

for she who was far more beautiful than any woman of mortal race,

Helen, abandoned her husband - the best of men -

and went sailing off to Troy; she remembered neither her child

nor her much-loved parents, but Aphrodite(?)

led her astray . . .

[This] has made me think of Anactoria, who isn't here.

Her step, which stirs desire, and the bright sparkle of her face,

are dearer sights to me than the chariots of Lydia,

and armed men fighting on foot.

Sappho, Fragment 16.

This is a translation by Gillian Spraggs published in 1998. http://www.gillianspraggs.com/translations/sappho16.html

Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, Simeon Solomon, 1864. Watercolour.

The European stereotype of American ice cube consumption is sadly accurate as I’ve just realized I have at least 28 ice cubes in my water cup. The Europeans would kick me out if I ever tried to cross the pond, I fear.

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

The moon is shy - digital painting, 2025

Created in procreate

Inspired by a beautiful photo of the moon by @raethanbhanneth!