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"The Vision of the Cross"

Gustave Doré, 1832.

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Still Life with Fruit - Antonio Dori , 1863-65.

Italian, b ?

Tempera on paper , 13.5 x 22.5 cm.

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you find beauty in ordinary things. do not lose this ability

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there’s something very beautiful about being able to try again tomorrow

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E. Le Tellier - Playing Card, Ace of Spades, late 19th century

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Pondering...

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perfect patch of light in prospect park today

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A magnificent piece of Italian sailor art, the crucifixion scene in a medicine bottle. 

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Farida Khelfa in The Agony of Marguerite Gautier by Jean-Paul Goude, Paris, 1992

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Villa Salagnon, Lake Geneva, 1968

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It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972), dir. Sergio Martino

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study of the love note

there is something about the action of folding that is integral to the love note. once folded, it’s charged with a furtive and hopeful magic, like finishing a spell

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Jill Krementz | Toni Morrison On her couch, where she often wrote. April 17, 1974