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" Goodnight sweet Prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." 🕯🤍🌹
"We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go." On necessary losses: themarginalian.org/2023/11/21/nec…
A favorite #birddivination for today. The set of 100 is officially out Tuesday! (The day after my birthday – I begged to move it, so it can be a birthday gift to the world, but learned that by some absurd convention having to do with sales, publication dates are always Tuesdays.)…
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. ~ Ὅμηρος
Caritas habundat in omnia De imis excellentissima super sidera Atque amantissima in omnia Quia summo Regi osculum pacis dedit 🤍 youtu.be/X8u15Q99HUU?si…
In Soviet times people in the eastern bloc wanted to listen to Western music but it was forbidden. People learned though that they could bootleg music onto medical X-rays using hacked phonographs. ‘Bone music’, so called for obvious reasons, became widespread. I thought about…
Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth | The Most Gracious Dance Ever❤️❤️❤️
The Zombies 🎩🪄 She's Not There This haunting debut single introduced the world to The Zombies' moody magic, jazzy chords, and Colin Blunstone’s unforgettable vocals. A British Invasion classic that still sends chills. Released on this day, July 24, 1964.
Alphonse Mucha was born in Moravia (Czech Republic) on this day in 1860. A pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement, his work continues to be celebrated for its intricate detail and unique style, making him a timeless icon in the world of art.
Illustration for the Legend of Ahasuerus ~ Gustave Doré (1860)
The quiet but central figure behind Depeche Mode, Martin Gore, celebrates his 64th birthday today🎂🎈🍾 youtu.be/fphsbLtrDe8?si…
“Swear to me, Hagen, my son!” ~🖌 Arthur Rackham Commissioned for a 1911 English publication of Richard Wagner’s opera, 'The Ring of the Nibelung'.
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. ~T.S.E
“[Europe] came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance.” Evelyn Waugh