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Thank you A.! It was so awfully scary at the time. I don’t know if I e gotten stronger, but I would hope so! 💙

Yes! Dogs definitely intimidate the reckless! rawr!

Thank you Petie. That is one I’ll never forget.

Thank you Stephanie! It was pretty intimidating at the time.

It was at the time. I remember every second of it, many years later.. Thank you Trip 🫂

You’re right. In retrospect, they weren’t important. Thank you, Dwight!
I got a Vizsla. Just enough of a dog 🐕 to be intimidating.

🫣 It was, Liv! 🫶

Thank you Jean. I feel sure this only built their courage. 😡 But yes, the dog was a great help to me. 😊

Thank you KristinRuth. I wished at the time for someone to step in, but I think you’re right. The witnesses kept me from a worse fate!

Indeed. I should have been more careful, but I barely thought it through, as I should have, in advance.

Yup. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. 😬

Thank you for your kindness, Al. Scary stuff!

Hello Radareyda! Good to see you! Here’s the coffee you requested! ☕️ ✨

Thank you Mimi! A great Tuesday to you too! I just was just off posting my little story. 😅 ☕️ 🫶 😊 See you around #TheCampfire! 🔥

Good morning, YourMoonliness! Thank you for your good wishes, and enjoy your half-caf ☕️ ✨ 🤗

I went back to school for a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research, found an apartment just up the street on 5th Avenue. I was thrilled to be on my own, making my own choices. So it was my choice to go out one night to a deli to get - cookies. I had to walk just one long block to 6th Avenue to deal with my Famous Amos craving. The single block I was walking was (fairly) well lit, and full of doormen. I headed out my doorway, jaywalked across the street. Soon after, I heard footsteps come around the corner behind me. They seemed odd. The footsteps paced mine exactly. I slowed to let the people pass me, but the footsteps were gone. I continued on. The footsteps began again, perfectly set to my gait. I knew I was in trouble, but saw the doormen and other people around. Suddenly, I was pinned to a tree. Two teenaged boys. One held me close, told me there was a knife at my throat. They took my watch, my wedding rings. One touched my chest, tenderly as a boyfriend, felt my necklace. Yanked at it with enough force that it broke. “What do you have in your pockets?” By now, there were sirens nearing. I gave them my cash, feared they would want my keys, but it was too late for them. The boy standing in front of me said, “Kiss me, baby”. I complied. It was over. They took off swiftly for the 6th Ave subway as standers-by surrounded me and I collapsed to my knees, overwhelmed. “Did you know those boys?” they asked harshly, incredulous. Police arrived quickly. With a short description, they ran for the subway. The boys were long gone. I called my ex-husband from a nearby phone. He was unsympathetic. Police got me home. No cookies for me. Is there any good buried in this story? Yes! A couple weeks earlier, I had returned a family heirloom ring to my husband, as I was uncomfortable wearing it. One disaster averted. Lessons learned? Wear no jewelry (I had none left). Don’t walk alone at night. Get a big dog. Shortly thereafter, I had a new friend.

#TheCampfire

LESSONS

A couple of years after moving to NYC from Mpls, my marriage strangled on its own rope. (My fault entirely - another story.)

I needed a new place to live, a new life. I continued, of course, my career in dance.

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(Photo is of a hand with a blurred wedding ring.)

It’s my pleasure, Alan! 😊 🫶

Good morning, Dwight! Wow, what a busy morning! I’ve done nothing but drink coffee and admire BlueSky 😂.

Now off to work on TheCampfire.

I hope you have a wonderful day too! ☕️ ✨

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (7th October) was at 7.14am, sunset is at 6.31pm

Italy. Sicily. 1964.

@Ferdinando Scianna.

Roxana Halls,
Laughing While Conducting - Fan, 2022,
contemporary UK painter #WomensArt

In Irene and Her Sister, Lempicka transforms familial intimacy into a scene of theatrical elegance. The Declair sisters—her own cousins—are rendered with the stylized precision and emotional ambiguity characteristic of Lempicka’s best work. Irene, with eyes rolled heavenward, evokes the ecstatic expressions found in Baroque saintly portraits, blending innocence with a subtle hint of dramatized mysticism. Her sister, more grounded in her gaze, provides a visual counterbalance, anchoring the composition in the realm of the real. The painting radiates a quiet reverence, not just for the subjects, but for the layered bonds of kinship and the inner worlds that flicker just behind their eyes.

Tamara de Lempicka :
Irene and Her Sister, 1925

Oil on canvas
146 × 89 cm | 57 1/2 × 35 in

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River at Night, 2018, oil on canvas. Wong’s deeply evocative blue paintings, of intimate interior scenes and luscious nocturnal landscapes, from his Blue Series made between 2017 and 2019. Wong’s Blue Series paintings are notable for their saturated and richly varied blue palette and pervasive sense of melancholy, enhanced by solitary figures. The striking compositions reflect Wong’s technique of flattening the depth of space between the foreground and background with deft combinations of wet and dry brushwork. From monumental oils on canvas to smaller gouache and watercolor paintings, this body of work reveals Wong’s intimate and intense meditations on blue that is, as essayist Nancy Spector writes, “as much a mood as it is a color.”

A Dream, 2019. Oil on canvas, 177.8 x 203.2 cm.

Untitled, 2018 (Moonlight coming into a room thru a window)

It's going to be a "Matthew Wong" kind of day.

Matthew Wong, was a burgeoning artist early in his career, whose brilliantly colored pictures have reinvigorated landscape painting in recent years, in tones that can feel playful, mystical, and elegiac, often all at once.

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Portrait of N. Svendonskaya | Aristarkh Lentulov

a cup of coffee is sitting on top of a maple leaf . ALT: a cup of coffee is sitting on top of a maple leaf .

Good morning! Listening to the newest Hives album while drinking my morning coffee. Hope you find your happy place today. 😊☕️🍁

My pleasure Kevin!

It’s my pleasure, lauren!

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View from the ER103 road towards Faial
Santana, Island of Madeira, Portugal

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A deep purple cactus dahlia that has gradients to white on the petal edges.

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Stack of plastic chairs - Sitges, Spain

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