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On this day in 1977, Cary Grant wrote to his daughter as she turned eleven. (From 'Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best', by Nancy Nelson. With a foreword by Barbara and Jennifer Grant.)

Passed away on this day in 2019: Mark Hollis #TalkTalk Pics; Goedefroit Music Michael Putland youtu.be/l3VqAsMXE7o?si…

'Watling Street Nocturne with St Paul's' by Rob Pointon robpointon.co.uk

Signs of spring #trees #woodland #treeclub

I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme You know my love goes with you as your love stays with me… Roberta Flack - Hey That‘s No Way to Say Goodbye youtu.be/kz38Vxkyow4?...

Good morning

Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

Wednesday sees the anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren. This week's theme therefore is all about his greatest creation, St Paul's Cathedral. -------- 'Ludgate, Evening' (1887) by John O'Connor

Georgia Fiennes, A Gentle Breeze, oil on canvas, n.d

late night radio old love songs I remember revive sleeping ghosts 🎶 #DailyHaikuPrompts (late) #ThingsToWriteAbout (love) #inkMine (revive)

„Gewonnen hat immer der, der lieben, dulden und verzeihen kann, nicht der, der besser weiß und aburteilt." Hermann Hesse

Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. Finding no language in which to speak in their own terms they resign themselves to being translated imperfectly. - Elizabeth Bowen, The death of the heart born on this day, 1899

The Incoming Mist, Deer in the Highlands, Charles Stuart, 1896.

Cherry Blossom. #Art © Natalia Schipakina

I went to bed thinking about this new U2 release. I woke up thinking about it too.

Harry Steen, Window Bookshelf, oil on canvas, 2013

DOVES | Black And White Town Perfection. From the album Some Cities. It doesn’t get much better. #Doves #SomeCities

magic lives in fact, it thrives in the tiny realm of the ordinary

Echo And The Bunnymen - “Heaven Up Here”, 1981. Brian Griffin.

‘…the seagulls rose up from their various perches along the rails and flew slowly, with us. (…) And gradually the City of Dublin started receding in the mauve twilight of a May evening…’ Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls: The Lonely Girl

‘The man wants to argue with me but I won't give him the satisfaction. It's better to walk away and leave him to the height he grew, as my mother used to say.’ Frank McCourt, ‘Tis

And for the laugh, the most stunning paragraph to ever mention Irish snow. James Joyce, The Dead

‘…prose is the brush strokes of words. It's the musicality of writing.’ @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social’s Podcast: How James Joyce invented Cinema podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t...

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley. ~J. R. R. Tolkien Watercolor by Tolkien The Hobbit (1937)

Awakening (2025) by Agnes Szabo. Acrylic and oil on canvas.

Say nothing loud just the hush of light meeting a listening sky…

In Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (1867), the threadballs (nøstene) are ghostly entities that symbolize Peer's missed opportunities. The creatures haunt him in the moorland, mocking his wasted potential, and shallow life. art by Arthur Rackham (1936) #PhantomsFriday

Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary moments of joy. William Butler Yeats

A little shattered today. Goodnight. 🖼️ Kaoru Yamada

Sinéad 💚

“It was a dismal evening in New York City… I had a cheeseburger; it didn’t help at all,… I went to the White Horse Tavern looking for Dylan Thomas, but Dylan Thomas was dead.” ph. Uncredited Photographer, Leonard Cohen, Paris Theater, London, 1968.

🖼️ Becca Stadtlander

It’s time for a just transition that puts people, dignity, and a fossil-free future first! Reshare if you agree✊

Bono lambasts ICE, Putin, Netanyahu and more as U2 release first collection of new songs since 2017

Franz Kafka, Letter to Felice Bauer on 17 February, 1913.

A snowy owl sits as the sky transitions from night to day. The moon is barely visible over its head as the sky fills with color. #snowyowl #owl #birds #nature #wildlife #protectnature #photography #EastCoastKin #sunrise

Björk - Náttúra youtu.be/iTQMrxxhAy4?...

🗓️ 40th anniversary! (February 17, 1986) 💿 Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring 🎶 Celebrate it/ Anticipate it/ Yesterday's faded/ Nothing can change it/ Life's what you make it #TalkTalk

...A poem insists on the truth of you.

the lightness of your heart is of paramount importance in this world

Prevailing 🎨 by @nakedpastor.bsky.social

Filming the right play in the wrong version. 😑

For #valentinesday, here's my linocut 'Remember Me' - for all long lost lovers everywhere... ❤️ #blockprint #printmaking

Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings

© Guy Cohen.

Forest Glow Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #winter

Hatte neulich beim Blick in den Himmel eine ähnliche Idee. Muss nur rauskriegen, wo ich meine Pinsel verräumt habe…

The Coast is Clear. #Art © Rebecca Vincent