May I inquire discreetly

[everyday-cutephoto]

[urgetocreate]

Nikita Chan (Chinese/American), Keeper of the Secret Garden, 2026, Color pencil on paper

[iiumz]

[hecatesbroom]

Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

[huariqueje]

The Landing - Peter Brown

British,b. 1967 -

Oil on canvas ,  35 x 30 in. 89 x 76 cm.

[spockvarietyhour]

Oh my god I've heard of Laika but I've never heard of Félicette

[enchantedbook]

'Day and Night ' by Margaret Tarrant, 1925.

[anmehe]

Finn Beales

[quotespile]

“She was reminded of rainy days in her childhood when she would resign herself to staying in, reading or watching daytime TV, and then in the afternoon the sun would break through unexpectedly and she would think, Oh. I guess I can go outside now. Isn’t that… a good thing, I guess.”

— Anne Tyler, Clock Dance

[classicalcanvas]

Group with Parasols (1905) by John Singer Sargent

[bluewillowmoon]

“Learning the craft is learning to turn the windlass at the well of poetry. Usually you begin by dropping the bucket halfway down the shaft and winding up a taking of air. You are miming the real thing until one day the chain draws unexpectedly tight and you have dipped into waters that will continue to entice you back. You’ll have broken the skin on the pool of yourself.”

— Seamus Heaney, from “Feeling Into Words,” Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (Noonday, 1980)

[natgeofound]

Verdi’s opera Aida enthralls a packed house in New York City, July 1964.Photograph by Albert Moldvay, National Geographic

[waveofahand]

Engelsgesicht. That's it. That's the post.

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[downpepperlane]

liza minnelli in cabaret (1972)

[what-marsha-eats]

Nigella Lawson's home library.

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recollections

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