Leslie Hurry: 'The Follies'. #weird #weirdart #artsky #Surrealism #skeleton #skull

Ghost Blooms. © Tia Kinsman

#pluto #franzvonstuck #painting #meditation #VisioDivina

all forgotten Samuel Beckett, from ‘Mercier and Camier’

#themultiplicationofloavesandfishes #ambrosefranken #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#thegrottoofagony #jamestissot #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#Pope #theology #POTUS #politics

all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene

The observation deck of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1949, by Burt Glinn.

#theapostlepaul #rembrandtvanrijn #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

Over to the New Yorker, where there are mixed opinions about the suburbs. —John Cheever, journal

Week off work and I have the worst cold. Started three weeks ago, felt poorly on and off, seemed to go, came back on my chest and larynx, my voice went, sore throat, now is firmly ravaging my sinuses. Peak misery yesterday and today. ‘Toad did not answer. He had fallen asleep.’ 🖼️ Arnold Lobel

#thebirrhofvenus #sandrobotticelli #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

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Something very similar happens when New Horizons isn't receiving data... I love space culture.

A new addition to the Faith & Science Resource Center: A detailed look at a scientist who became a Catholic convert, and then a priest and bishop.

Are we all AI parrots? Can an AI be the same as a person?

4/13/1891 — b. Vesta Stoudt, American inventor. Inventor of duct tape. Sent FDR a ltr (1943), identified a problem + offered her tested idea as a solution to seal boxes w/ a tearable waterproof cloth tape. The #War Production Board approved her idea #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #InventorSky #gov #IP

The message left by Pope Leo XIV in the guestbook of the Great Mosque of Algiers: “May the mercy of the Most High keep the noble Algerian people and the entire human family in peace and freedom.”

A beech wood, North Wales, in the springtime. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Atsuko Suwa (諏訪温子), contemporary Japanese painter specializing in Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) #Womensart

NA monarchs in 🇲🇽Mexico🇲🇽, they travel thousands of miles to this breeding ground.

From grateful.org

Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Steven van der Meulen of Antwerp & London. Here, Lady Frances Sidney. And her little dog, too.

#theevictionofheliodor #luigisabatelli #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#cuttysarkandthermopylea #montaguedawson #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#lucretiaborgiareignsinthevatican #frankcadogancowper #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

He is a learned doc with copy of Vesalius on his window-sill, but he still turns to good old uroscopy for the crucial question -- is the old woman's daughter pregnant, or not?

A scan from my copy of 'When We Were Very Young' (1924) by A A Milne, including one of the beautifully rendered illustrations by E H Shepard: economical of line yet so full of life. #BookWormSat (Ghost Monks really shouldn't be this sentimental...)

#themiraculousdraughtoffishes #jeanjouvenet #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#lessalrimbanques #GustaveDore #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#elaqualarre #franciscogoya #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

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Goodnight from Fay Crosby, 20 minutes into being trapped in the tower block’s lift before realising her fellow confinee is a ghost. Goodnight from The Red King pub, where a god awful row has broken out on whether wren song or chiffchaff call is best sign of spring. Goodnight from Hookland.

Yip Harburg 8 Apr 1896🎂 #MusicSky🎵