The Shakers’ mission was to create Heaven on Earth, as a means of preparing for their celestial Heaven. Tips and tricks of the nicest people in America.
Category: Historical
A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.
One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so unlike ours, and in this most zen way!
There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.
This quote from Myamoto Musashi has always struck me as a book contained in a single sentence.
Smashing ist eine sehr leidenschaftliche Freundschaft, meist zwischen zwei Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters.
Let me show you where you are.
When you feel you are being watched, your excesses are harder to maintain.
An unrelated excerpt from
The Salt Island Diaries
The factory girls of the early 19th century were self-educated and wrote about capitalism at a time when Marx merely annoyed.