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Maxfield Parrish, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

1912

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The Witch - A New England Folktale

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Found photos of my Grandfather today. Johnny Picolo New Orleans circa 1950s

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Illustrations from Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

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And if I should pick out the good in you – each shard of broken light, like glass from the wreck of such beauty, and look at that – or one golden afternoon when you hovered above me in rapture, oh half god – how would I bear to lift my hands, how would I bear to close my eyes and let you fall, and love be damned?

Cecilia Woloch, “Lucifer, Full of Light,” Carpathia (via lifeinpoetry)

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Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum

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Baby Face (1933)

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Needlework, Britt Hutchinson

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Eda Urbani. Woman at Confessional, 1937.

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Wright Barker - Circe, c. 1889

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Surgery in a Russian hospital train, c.1916. 

Photo by Paul M. Fekula

The New York Public Library 

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Edith Wynne Matthison as Sister Beatrice in the New Theatre’s 1910 production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play “Sister Beatrice”

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Mario Finocchiaro “La farfalla” (1958)

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Driveway and beach, Longbranch, 1900′s.

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“In my midlife, I found myself in the middle of a dark forest.“  Divine Comedy.  Inferno by Gustave Dore (1832-1883).