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I am an academic librarian with a background in theology who loves traveling space and time through the written word. As a lover of books I enjoy reading The Inklings writings, All things Arthur, Folktales, Fantasy, Science Fiction (especially cyberpunk), An Occasional Mystery, History, Politics (mostly left of center), Christian Literature, writings of the Church Fathers and Mystics, and much, much more......
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The Blue Fairy Book
Edited by Andrew Lang
with numerous illustrations by HJ Ford & GP Jacomb Hood
London Longmans Green and Co 1893 Sixth Edition [First Published 1889]
The first of Lang’s coloured fairy books. Lang had grown up with a love of myths and fables, and towards the end of the 1880s he decided, with his wife’s help, to collect and publish some of his favourite tales. The Blue Fairy Book was the result, published in 1889 it met with great critical acclaim. The tales include Cinderella, Aladdin. Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Goldilocks and many other classics
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Take it for a spin: my collection of vintage bicycles is on a roll.
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Craigievar Castle, Scotland ~ By monalogue
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wonderful antique botanical manuscript illustrated with original water colours dated 1823
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Mr. Stinky goes to prison.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
Illustration by Arthur Rackham [1914]
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𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍
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Like the ebb and flow of tides
planets revolving around the Sun
clouds form and vanish
Innumerable forms appear and disappear.
The breath rises and falls
who is coming and going ?
~ Meeta Ahluwalia
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Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Art Victo Ngai
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