Apropos of the same 📕 I’m 📖 with my morning ☕️, Antonio de Pereda’s 1650 painting El sueño del Caballero. The angel is letting us know that ⏰ “Aeterne pungit, cito volat et occidit — Eternally it stings, swiftly it flies, and it kills.” All of your worldly pursuits scattered on the table, goodbye. 👋
bookswainApropos of something I’m 📖 with my ☕️ , the Giralda, the Moorish minaret of the mosque built in the 12th century by the Almohad Caliphate is now the bell tower of Seville Cathedral in Spain. It was designed by Muslim architects ‘so that a man could ride horseback within it all the way to the top.’