Julian Sancton tells the tale of Roger Dooley and his search for nautical eighteenth-century treasure.

The New York Times reports that the agents who killed Alex Pretti were placed on leave, yet it ignores the far more important issue: federal employees can currently kill a citizen and remain anonymous. This is the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

In a world where too many are staying silent, Bruce Springsteen used his gift to do this. Listen to this song.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. ― Toni Morrison

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)

Bruce - Streets of Minneapolis

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

La sincérité se manifeste par une cohérence totale entre les pensées, les paroles et les actes,sans port de masque social. Elle repose sur une honnêteté fondamentale, la transparence dans les relations et la bienveillance du cœur,transformant l'authenticité en une valeur rare qui bâtit la confiance.

Frederic Sommer / Flower and Frog, 1947

WORD FACT The Latin word rivus, meaning stream, gives us both “derive” and “rival”: “Derive” literally means “to draw (water) from a stream”. “Rival” literally means “one who shares the same stream”.

Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

Disturbing presence https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19517

From ‘Two Cures For Love’ (2008) —Wendy Cope #poem #poetry #booksky

Out looking for buried treasure #oilpainting #art

Yoshimune Arai "Suma Coast"

. 'Sonnet to Mrs. Reynold's Cat' —John Keats #poetry #poems #booksky

Paris #photography #blackandwhite

The pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Nazis for resisting their tyranny. Shortly before his execution, he wrote these words:

A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words

"Me voilà enseveli, dans la pénombre Enfermé dans une tombe J’entends les cris, les hurlements Les bruits du feu et du vent ... " ~ Elea LAUREEN

Butler to the rescue 📷 Alex Timmermans #monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #conceptual

It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, The Flies 📷 Michael Kenna

Nino Peradze (Georgian Artist, born 1955) "Untitled", 2026. Acrylic on Paper Painting. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Dans la Grèce antique la science et la philosophie etaient indissociables. Democrite d’Abdère est l’inventeur du mot atome (a-tomos = qu’on ne peut fractionner), la plus petite partie de la matière en perpétuelle mutation, qui se transforme sans jamais se détruire.

Building and Tree #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #architecture #medellín #nikon

And all I loved, I loved alone. ~ Edgar Allan Poe 📷 Nina Leen

'Cross Tracks (across a cold landscape)' Charcoal & Oil Paint Sketch

Untitled 1102 by Vicken Parsons.

Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Alex G Griffiths

"There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence." (Marcel Proust) 🎨 Heinrich Kley

The Funeral, by Édouard Manet

Old T model Ford at Lightning Ridge done in oil paints 🎨

#HolocaustRemembrance The Song is Over (between 1942 and 1944) by Czech artist, Pavel Fantl (1903-1945). #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson was born on this day January 27, 1941 in Los Angeles. Bobby recorded a vast & widely varied catalog of Blue Note albums that span 1963-2014 including classics such as "Dialogue," "Happenings" & "Montara." Stream our spotlight playlist: bluenote.lnk.to/BobbyHutcher...

All Along the Watchtower -Neil Young🇨🇦 tidal.com/browse/track...

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"I love rain which carry desires to oceans." Etel Adnan

“I can remember the feeling of fear of what would happen if I stopped rhyming—I had no idea what would stabilize the poem.” —Alice Oswald

Breaking off https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19441

Montréal Rue St Antoine 1971

More To This - Marc Scibilia youtu.be/eatNbYfypXs?...

When I lived in Berlin I received a wondrous gift from the artist 4000 (Thomas Egeler)

When the child was a child, it didn't know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one. Peter Handke, Song of Childhood

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📷 Rodney Smith