#fleuron

[postcard-from-the-past]

Parisian entertainer Marguerite Rauscher, known as Lise Fleuron on a vintage postcard

[modelcoutureee]

[duardius]

set in monotype garamont italic—vide ‹harmony›. headband of monotype 218—vide ‹a london ornament›.

letterpress on okawara machinemade.

[kvetch19]

[inexplicably-spookified]

experiment

[artlipsis]

misc. art relating to my cave story mod, evergreen

play the demo now!!!

[betzs-things]

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris

[snakegirllovehandles]

I drove for meals on wheels again today, after a long stretch when I couldn't because my car had a severe oil leak.

It's nice to be doing that again.

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I went to an estate sale on the way back from the meals on wheels office.

I'm feeling kind of strange, thinking about all the things I learned about the person who's estate it was just by seeing the stuff that was for sale.

She was a musician. Played jazz saxophone. She had lots of costume jewelry. She had a dog. In her last years she was bed bound or nearly so. She was born in the 30s, judging by the photograph I saw. And she had either grandchildren or nieces & nephews.

And, I think, she lived alone.

There's a strange feeling that I have, thinking about these things. The passage of time. Death, the end of connection between people. It's like sadness, but it's also like, reflection. Wistfulness, the barest hint of what it's like to watch a tragic play.

Finality, nostalgia, and a smidge of melancholy.

The old world blues.