Tag: Death
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“One turns to me his appealing eyes- poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.” Walt Whitman
GIVING A FACE TO CIVIL WAR STATISTICS CIVIL WAR GRAVES LEAKING TOXINS Beat! beat! drums!-blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley-stop for no expostulation, Mind not the timid-mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child’s voice be heard, nor the mother’s entreaties, Make even the…
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Death Becomes Her
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/fashion-of-mourning/2/ http://www.katetattersall.com/?p=1848
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Documenting Dead and Dying Buildings
If you LOVE the mix of melancholia and mystery that is abandoned buildings please visit this guy’s site! Delicious photos and histories–my favorite is the Bennett School for Girls.
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THE WOUND-DRESSER. walt whitman
1 An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me, (Arous’d and angry, I’d thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d and…
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Civil War Surgery/War Is Hell
LINK TO: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021188/Civil-war-surgery-The-grisly-photos-wounded-soldiers-treated.html
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Have I mentioned my brief foray into the world of living history nursing? As a book nerd I’m fascinated by gross descriptions of missing body parts and how people do without. I used to keep old prosthetics on the wall. But touching and interacting with real, live, sweaty people who are play-acting injury–well–that was a…
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“Irish Tough Guy” American Photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan
Take a look at how small we are in the grand scheme of things. At a time when people fantasized about transcontinental railroads and nation building, Timothy H. O’Sullivan captured the enormity of the physical world and the tiny little men living upon it without the slightest hint of sentimentality. Maybe his experience capturing the…
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Art and Death
The nature of art’s ability to heal as told by the artist: “In the course of my peregrinations, I saw a man walking up and down before an adobe shanty, apparently much distressed; I approached him, and inquired the cause of his dejection; he told me that his only daughter, aged six years *, had…
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“War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.” THOMAS HARDY
The House on Tenafly Road $1.99 e-Book
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Photographs Like Tombstones Scattered On My Desk
What if the most rational, natural thing is that there is a god who created everything? What if the notion that God is dead is the big lie? What if there is a purpose for our life and it’s bigger than our seemingly natural desires? What if every person that ever lived, for however long…
Author Adrienne Morris 