I Dont Know What To Say To You Except That It Tore The Heart Out Of My Body Saying Goodbye To You.

“I don’t know what to say to you except that it tore the heart out of my body saying goodbye to you.”

— Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 28 January 1927

I would've love to meet you elsewhere. In a place where we wouldn't be both scared of accepting how we feel. That then, we will understand how love isn't about beautiful beginnings and happy endings. That sometimes, it happens in betweens.

we were somewhere else // ma.c.a

Under Elizabeth Petrovna the daughter of Peter the Great, St Petersburg was the most dazzling court in Europe. Foreigners were amazed at the luxury of the sumptuous balls and masquerades. The empress adored dancing and new clothes. She issued special decrees governing the styles of the dresses and decorations worn by courtiers. No one was allowed to have the same hairstyle as the empress. Elizabeth owned fifteen thousand ball-gowns, several thousand pairs of shoes and an unlimited number of silk stockings. She never went to bed before six o’clock in the morning and spent each night in a different room, never having a permanent bedroom. Despite her love of parties and dresses, Elizabeth was extremely religious. She visited convents, made pilgrimages to holy sites and spent long hours in church. When asked to sign a law secularising church lands, she said: “Do what you like after my death, I will not sign it.” All foreign books had to be approved by a church censor. Klyuchevsky called her a “kind and clever, but disorderly and wayward Russian woman” who combined “new European tends” with “devout national traditions”. х

Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442)

Spiral galaxy with its bright northern arm and starkly contrasting dust lane. In typical spiral galaxy coloration, it has a warm yellow core with blue outer arms speckled with pink clouds of ionized, glowing hydrogen gas associated with star formation. A small, but conspicuous background galaxy is also peeking through just left of the nucleus.

Credit: Judy Schmidt