When late I sang sad was my voice, Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war; In the midst of the conflict, the heroes, I stood, Or pass’d with slow step through the wounded and dying. But now I sing not war, Nor the measur’d march…
Category: Beautiful Images
Do You Have Lunch With A Crazy Person?
How is your mental health? I don’t usually come up against moral dilemmas when out with my daughters thrift shopping. The shop has changed hands and no longer can I depend fully on the place to outfit me. I suppose it’s not a terrible thing to buy new clothes from real stores, but still. We…
Girls’ Day Out 1905
Watch this entertaining film following a day in the life of 1905 boarding school girls at CONEY ISLAND…
“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;
