Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

Claire Sherman, Splintered Tree, 2013. Oil on canvas, 6 ½ x 5 ½ in

Yes, my strength is in solitude. I'm not afraid of pouring rains or great gusts of wind, for I too am the darkness of the night. -Clarice Lispector

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by @rabihalameddine.bsky.social Rabih Alameddine, from @groveatlantic.bsky.social nothing if not unexpected and so, so good. Masterful writer

The Creation of the Sun and the Moon from the Bible Historiale, France ca. 1350-1370

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. --Thoreau

I must cleanse my soul with some beauty. Here's: Madeline Flory - Study of Quince, 19th century

Hiroshi Sugimoto - The Long Never

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

Anna Yarmoliuk August, 2023.

Hiroshi Sugimoto - The Long Never

16th c Tibetan artwork showing twelve tracks on which the Sun revolves around Mount Meru. Pigments on fabric; 48x200cm

George Richmond - Self-Portrait oil on canvas, 1840, 40.9 x 40.6 cm Joshua Reynolds - Self-portrait, c.1747/9, detail

Death Fugue by Paul Celan (two translations) www.divasofverse.com/2015/08/deat...

Lacemakers, Brittany, France, 1920

Yayoi Kusama, Watermelon 1981.

George Richmond - Self-Portrait oil on canvas, 1840, 40.9 x 40.6 cm Joshua Reynolds - Self-portrait, c.1747/9, detail

Goodnight

When You Lie by Paul Celan www.divasofverse.com/2025/09/when...

Zhou Chunya (b. 1955). Year after Year the Flowers Bloom. 2009

Homer B. Sprague. Milton’s Cosmography; Diagrams for Milton’s Paradise Lost. 1879. 1/2

Anti-fascist rally, Philadelphia, 1939

So fascists wants to designate antifascists as terrorist.

On October 23 in 1915 up to 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York to demand the right to vote.

William de Brailes - Noah's Flood. 1250

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Report from the Besieged City by Zbigniew Herbert www.divasofverse.com/2014/03/repo...

The Dietzsches: Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch, (1741-1784), Dandelion with a Death's Head moth and a smaller green moth or butterfly

Lacemakers, Brittany, France, 1920

Homer B. Sprague. Milton’s Cosmography; Diagrams for Milton’s Paradise Lost. 1879. 1/2

Report from the Besieged City by Zbigniew Herbert www.divasofverse.com/2014/03/repo...

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Ansel Adams, Yosemite, 1940

The Dietzsches: Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch, (1741-1784), Dandelion with a Death's Head moth and a smaller green moth or butterfly

Buffũhrer!

Robert Redford +Paul Newman + pingpong = perfection

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 'Meeting Gods in the Clouds', oil on canvas, 1625-1630

Muhammad Ali by Flip Schulke, 1961

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by @rabihalameddine.bsky.social is long listed for the National Book Award. Pick it up!

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

Good boy: Fired clay brick from the ziggurat at Ur; Ur-Nammu no. 1; cuneiform inscription stamped on face with two accidentally impressed dog's paw-marks near one edge. From the 3rd Dynasty of Ur (circa. 2112-2004 B.C.E.)

Book launch at Georgetown U on 9/30 for @rabihalameddine.bsky.social #booksky

Muhammad Ali by Flip Schulke, 1961

Antoin Sevruguin, Veiled Persian Woman with Pearls, circa 1890

Ernest Cole, c. 1970

On her last day as First Lady, Betty Ford jumped on the Cabinet Room table in White House and started dancing, 1977