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Moneta Sleet Jr. Carmen de Lavallade and her son, Leo, circa 1970.

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Odd Nerdrum: Man in Boat (1999)

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mary oliver, staying alive

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last night i was drunk on mulled wine and I gifted myself this gif for christmas by saving it to my phone and then i forgot and woke up and found it merry christmas to me

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‘Pigeon feeding near Blue Mosque’, 1991  //  Steve McCurry. 

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2023 Nativity Scene at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, Bethlehem, Palestine

"In Gaza today, God is under the rubble. He is in the operating room. If Christ were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble. We see his image in every child killed and pulled from under the rubble. In every child in incubators," writes Rev. Munther Isaac of the church.

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Gillian Anderson

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Water and ice make magic on Glade Run earlier today,

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Ruth Bernhard, Against the Light, 1951

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At then end of Barbie nutcracker when Kelly says "so if Clara hadn't been brave she wouldn't ever have found out she was a princess" indeed had me bawling cause those little life lessons in children's stories are so relevant and moving as life goes on and we grow up

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Gaetano Previati, La Danza delle Ore.

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June Jordan teaching at the City College of New York, ca. 1967-1976 [Wendy's Subway, Brooklyn, NY. Courtesy June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Of Wildflowers”

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Arman (French, 1928-2005), Dominos. Plexiglass and resin with dominos, 70 x 50 cm. Unique.

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"On a New Line", Hovhannes Grigoryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

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Art by Kremena Chipilova

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Emily Dickinson