Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Anna Gregorevna Dostoevsky wr. c. May 1880
I would live here.
Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
Mario Reviglione - Silenzio (1907)
Russian peasant woman weeping near smoldering ruins of her home destroyed by retreating German soldiers, 1941.
Mazowsze (Mazovia), Poland - Bruno Barbey
you can braid my hair
The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943)
Hammer Horror Highgate.
Highgate Cemetery (West), London Borough of Camden.
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
St. Francis of Assisi
Crucifixion andPietà, Polish folk art woodcuts, circa 1831.
Elizabeth of the Trinity’s monastic cell you are so beautiful to me
