Watch this entertaining film following a day in the life of 1905 boarding school girls at CONEY ISLAND…
Category: Beautiful Images
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” Jane Austen
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Fiction: Dirty Diapers
Now as Thankful scrubbed shit far from her family, she wondered why she had traveled a great distance only to immerse her hands in dirty laundry water again.
LINKS: Boyhood An astounding, one-of-a-kind trove of stories and drawings reveals what life was like for young men growing up in rural 19th-century America Children in 19th-century art reflect nation’s fears, dreams Image courtesy of National Library of Wales
Quote: “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” Oscar Wilde
Image: The artist Anders Zorn and his wife Emma.
Annunciation
Salvation to all that will is nigh;
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” William Shakespeare
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
QUOTE: We all wonder at the clouds, their changing shapes and fleeting existence, but never once has man been able to rid the sky of them. We can look and worry about what they mean, but only God can push them away.
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QUOTE: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. –Philippians 4. 8.
This is a hard thing to do, isn’t it? My characters struggle. They wonder if God is good. They wonder if people can be good. They often turn away from God (or try to forget about Him completely) like the first garden inhabitants who hid in shame with a new awareness of good and evil….
Selfie Circa 1900
“What do you mean, Phib?” asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw – not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.” Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
