Civil War Bullets & My Mom’s Sewing Thimbles in the Curio Box from Hallmark upon the Wall Among all the thimbles and the other little treasures and souvenirs within the wooden curio box from Hallmark, there are three bullets, souvenirs of a visit to one of at the seven American Civil War...
Vincent van Gogh | Madame Roulin and Her Baby | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Postcard Story – Madame Roulin and Her Baby – Vincent van Gogh – 1888 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Daughter – 07/26/21 …and not the first, nor the second, nor…but, yes, definitely the last,...
The Problem with Only Traveling First Class The problem that arises by only traveling first class and always staying in first class hotels and accommodations, and only dining at first class restaurants and attending first class events, is that after a while, our estimation and consideration of...
No One Can Say They Have "Favorite" Holocaust Photos. Favorite as a Word Does Not Exist in That World. No, One Only Has Those Which Have Deeply Touched Within, Those in Which We Recognize Ourselves & in Which We Recognize Our Mother, or Brother, Childhood Playmates, or Grandfather, or One's...
An Art Musing - Fine Art & Custom Framing & A Little Boy Posed Between Behold a photo taken of an alert yet cautious young boy in a stroller, evaluating and attempting to understand to the best of his ability a stop on the walk, a pause in being pushed through the mid-morning still...
Claude Monet | The Manneporte near Etretat | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) *** Postcard Story – The Manneporte Near Etretat – Claude Monet – 1886 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Sister's Spouse – 03/13/23 …and she, not old, but also now not young, came as far as she could...
Paris –The Joy of Being Insignificant & Exhilarated Before the Iconic and Grand, & the Deep & Quiet Joys of Our Yearnings to be Together with the Exuberances of our Shared Human Life, that, at Times, Come Before Our Eyes *** When you travel, many times when you encounter something that...
We Stand with Ukraine - Though Some Do Not - Ми підтримуємо Україну - Хоча деякі цього не роблять *** At the end of March, I was walking with a friend within my “greater” neighborhood and as we walked along a side street, I saw this “We Stand With Ukraine” sign planted in the grass in the front...