i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”

basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.

i feel that with my dad.

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
~ Charles Dickens

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A tweet that lives rent free in my head?

When @bellabee13.bsky.social said

YouTube video by SimonGarfunkelVEVO Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Audio)

In times of struggle. 💙🫂🌟
The Boxer.

Cover of the book All the Light We Cannot See

This was extraordinary. The kind of prose novelist I aspire to be. Low bar, right??? 😆

The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.

Crank it! 😀 🎸

Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland

#Canada
#Newfoundland
#Tourism

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Moonlight in the Wild (1914)
🎨 Tom Thomson

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." 
~ George Eliot

An August Afternoon near Veneux
🎨 Alfred Sisley (1881)

Sometimes Ukrainians have only 5 minutes after an air alert is announced to reach a safe place.
That’s exactly how long it takes for a ballistic missile to reach its target.
Help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence."
~ George Eliot

Irené (1862) • Sir John Everett Millais

YouTube video by John Lee Hooker - Topic Ramblin' By Myself

John Lee Hooker - Ramblin' By Myself

youtu.be/CC8PSPk-gqA?...

1951 single for Chess records

A black-capped chickadee is perched on a branch with muted leaves in the background creating a watercolor look.

Sometimes - most of the time - it's the commonplace that brings beauty. Today, a black-capped chickadee.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #Chickadees #PhotographersOfBluesky

"Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end."
~ David Niven

Fred Herzog, Canadian photographer known for his use of exceptional colour and intensity unusual in the 1950s and 60s.

Crossing Powell, Vancouver 1984
#FredHerzog #Photography

"For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again."
~ Meister Eckhart

Wild Ducks • Evening (1901)
🎨 Bruno Liljefors

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
~ Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations'

Sunset in Yosemite
🎨 Julian Walbridge Rix

Twillingate, Newfoundland Canada. Icebergs and Aurora #Photography #newfoundland #Canada #Aurora #Icebergs

And now for something completely different..

Carl Bloch (Danish painter) 1834 - 1890

Two chess players, 1889
oil on copper plate
50 x 39 cm.
private collection

Twillingate, Newfoundland Canada #Photography #Newfoundland #Canada #Iceberg

And now for something completely different..

Sophus Jacobsen (Norwegian, 1833-1912)

Moonlit bay (1880?)
Oil on canvas. 76x127

Another sun goes down on an Irish Atlantic rainforest
🌎

Witless Bay, Newfoundland Canada #Newfoundland #Canada #Photography #whales

Chuck E.'s In Love (1979)
Rickie Lee Jones

Triton, Newfoundland Canada #Photography #Newfoundland #Canada #Iceberg

"I like to think of you as untired and unworried, and sailing smoothly along the current of your blest Eternity."
~ Frederic Myers

Viewing the Sailboat (1910)
🎨 Maurice Prendergast

A rather spiffing letter from E. B. White (the author of 𝐂h𝐚r𝐥o𝐭t𝐞'𝐬 𝐖e𝐛) to a Mr. Nadeau, urging him — and us all — to keep the faith.

a small black and brown dachshund puppy with brown dots for eyebrows lays on her back on a cream blanket with a swirly grey design. we are very close to her. her front paws are tucked into her chest, and her mouth is open slightly in surprise. her tiny pink tongue pokes out just a teensy bit held back by only her itty bitty teeth.

This is Maple. She wants to know why you needed to take a photo at this very second. You caught her and her teef by surprise. 12/10