Thkyou EveryOne! Stay safe, stay well, stay happy.
Peace to all 🕊️
Nite Nite ♡

~ Now ‘tis springtime! Time for dreams to blossom ~

Raise a tent of shelter now,
though every thread is torn

Dance me to the end of love
—Leonard Cohen

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“Halcyon”
#Artwork by American artist Jillian Lee
#MixedMedia #abstract

Model : Ann Gunning Parker ; 1955
Photographer : Frances McLaughlin-Gill
[Balenciaga couture; the Palace of Versailles, France; for Vogue]
#1950s #FashionPhotography

Hookah reservoir made of white jade and inlaid with gold, ruby, and emeralds. Deccan, India, 17th-18th century

The older you get the louder your sighs become.

‘ - and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed an floundered and enjoyed and suffered.’

Henry James,

Letter to Hugh Walpole, August 21 1913

Monia Merlo

“Olympe”
#Painting by American artist Jillian Lee
#Mixedmedia #abstract #fashion

My oil painting ‘4am’

The colours of a breaking wave

📹 conorhegyi

You can't fool introverts with words. They feel vibes. They don't just listen; they soak in your whole being. Your eyes. Your tone. Your body. You may think you fooled them with your cute little stories. But trust me, they play dumb just not to hurt your feelings.

Was there a better sax opening in the 1970's than Baker Street?

Still a banger after all these years.

Happy 77th birthday Gerry Rafferty.

Stars in a dark blue sky provide a beautifully-evocative decoration for this Lalique perfume bottle for “In the Night” scent by Worth (1924)
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Promised myself if I woke up early I’d go to the forest to listen to the birds. Woke up at 4.30am, so off I went...

First image: Serebriansky Forest, Luhansk region, Ukraine, 2024. A site of brutal combat.

Second image: Argonne Forest, France, 1918. A site of brutal combat in WW1.

Imogen Cunningham | Hands
Braille . 1933

Happy heavenly birthday to Charlie Chaplin

April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977.

The “bread roll dance” in Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Gold Rush’ is considered one of the most memorable scenes in film history.

The Gold Rush (1925)

Maine Coon Alert---Lucio, the real star of the Netflix series, Ripley. He's so impressive.

It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine…