How fortunate are
those garments, wrapped, as they are,
on your curvature.
Fashion (Mode), color lithograph by Otto Lendecke, 1912
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“Wounded Amazon,” Franz von Stuck, 1904
Oil on canvas.
“A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
— Oscar Wilde
I feel seen.
Somebody wrote me a note and wrote “Nolantheless” as a segue.
Oh, BRAVE new world that has such people in it.
“Women and books would teach his middle age/The fencing wit of an informal style.”
“Vocation,” by W. H. Auden (Part XII of “The Quest”)
Incredulous, he stared at the amused
Official writing down his name among
Those whose request to suffer was refused.
The pen ceased scratching: though he came too late
To join the martyrs, there was still a place
Among the tempters for a caustic tongue
To test the resolution of the young
With tales of the small failings of the great,
And shame the eager with ironic praise.
Though mirrors might be hateful for a while,
Women and books would teach his middle age
The fencing wit of an informal style,
To keep the silences at bay and cage
His pacing manias in a worldly smile.
“Last Flowers,” Jules Breton, 1890
Oil on canvas.
“Ooh, baby, baby, it’s a wild world.”
I got really excited the other night — I saw an immense, graceful heron glide over the Roanoke River to land beside a … beaver dam!! Which had apparently always been there, but which had heretofore escaped my notice! And there were beavers bobbing and swimming about! (I’m guessing they are nocturnal?)
I tried to get pictures and video for the whole gang — but it was too dark. The footage I shot was all shadow.
Then I made the mistake of excitedly posting the following on Facebook: “I just saw a beavers and a heron!”
The. Jokes. Will. Not. Stop. (Sheesh, you people.)
This includes a lot of “heroin” comments. I’m kinda surprised by the level of drug-related humor out there.
“OBX Beach Sunrise” (photo)
Gerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Cover to “Black Widow” #1, Adam Hughes, 2020
Marvel Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 