While many may have taken up a chorus of Auld Lang Syne as the clock struck midnight on the new year, few likely knew the meaning of the words first put to paper by Robbie Burns back in 1788. The old… Read More ›
Art & Inspiration
“Stars” by Marjorie Pickthall
Now in the West the slender moon lies low, And now Orion glimmers through the trees, Clearing the earth with even pace and slow, And now the stately-moving Pleiades, In that soft infinite darkness overhead Hang jewel-wise upon a silver… Read More ›
Silent Sundays: Human Parody (1880)
Human Parody by Félicien Rops, pencil, black chalk, watercolor, circa 1880. Related Posts: – Silent Sundays: Self-Portrait (1908) – Silent Sundays: A Modern Dance of Death (1912) – Silent Sundays: Vampire (1895)
The Year of Halloween 