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"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated..."

~Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
🎨Edmond Georges.
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Still available on PBS. Do take the time to warch
January 15, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Rik Wouters, Femme Ecrivant, 1915
January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

Vincent van Gogh
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
My morning read
January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

~ Paul Theroux

Cape cod - Betty Wiley
January 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
"We go through changes roughly every three years, sometimes seven, where our colour palette changes and how we feel changes...the aroma or the textures...the lightness or darkness around us shifts."
Bjork
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Dalai Lama XIV
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January 14, 2026 at 1:51 PM
'And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through (...) But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.'

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, 2002

Robert Frank
January 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
"The art of Life is to know how to Enjoy a little and to Endure very much..."

William Hazlitt

Image - Niphisi
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them."

Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
January 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows,—

The birds, they make it in the spring, At night's delicious close

Emily Dickinson

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January 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Marilyn Silverstone, South Vietnam, 1966
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Looks like she can't, can't...can't!
January 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
January 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up.

~W. B. Yeats

art by Jana Heidersdorf
January 12, 2026 at 2:34 AM
"We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal."

Thich Nhat Hanh
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January 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
My library is an archive of longings ...

~Susan Sontag

🎨 Honor C Appleton
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Paris flea market 📖📚❤️
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January 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

Dr. Seuss
January 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
It was the best of times (dipping bread into soup) it was the worst of times (finishing the bread and then being stuck with just soup)
January 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The Rosette Nebula, some say depicts a human skull
January 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
André Kertész
Washington Square, Winter, 1954
January 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
David Bowie by Denis O'Regan
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"Happiness often sneaks in a door that you did not think was open."

- John Barrymore

(art: Cynthia Chi)
January 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM