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"And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver."
(from "The Owl" from Arthur Sze)
🎨Teagan White

30 105
2023-03-13

Darklings!

Sam, one's other favourite cat, chose Frank Dean's "Irish Coast" (c 1890) for Conrad the Crow's background in this week's wallpaper to fly over while we collect tales from the insular Celts together with & this week!

10 30
2023-03-13

What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same.

—Andrew Michael Hurley

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2023-03-09

"A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing." (Bret Harte)

🎨 Teagan White

12 58
2023-03-09

"That poor little ugly duckling
Went wandering far and near
But at every place they said to his face
Now get out, get out, get out of here
And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack."
🖼️Theo van Hoytema / 📔Andersen /🎵 Danny Kaye

11 38
2023-03-07

'Have the birds come back, my darling.
The birds from over the sea?'
-Alice Cary

🎨Natasha Newton

20 81
2023-03-07

"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here" (Emily Dickinson)

🎨 Leon Spilliaert

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2023-03-06

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

~Neil Gaiman
art by Julianna Bíbor

21 85
2023-03-06

"For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn."
(Walter de La Mare)

🎨Félix Buhot

22 111
2023-03-06

Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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2023-03-04

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

~Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
art John William Waterhouse (1903)

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2023-03-04

Adults are just obsolete children…’
—Theodor Geisel
aka Dr. Seuss (1904-91)

10 79
2023-03-03

“Yea—for a dream.
Last night methought I saw
That maiden Saint who stands with lily in hand
In yonder shrine." (Tennyson)

🎨 Schiavoni (1841)

32 89
2023-03-02

‘If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.’
—Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

🎨 John Tenniel

17 190
2023-02-25

'High over ocean hangs my home
And when the moon is clear
I stare and stare till fairy foam
Is music in my ear'
-Robert W. Service

🎨Amelia Jane Murray

28 176
2023-02-23

Alice's cat was Dinah, whom she remembered often during her adventures in Wonderland.

“Dinah’ll miss me very much tonight, I should think! I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me!"

8 47
2023-02-21

The Pied Piper of Hamelin was hired to rid a town of their rat problem using his magic flute- however he was refused payment so he waited till the adults were at church and returned dressed in green to lure all the children away.
🖼️Kate Greenaway

6 29
2023-02-20

Happy everyone!
The Self-Heal Flower Fairy, by Cicely Mary Barker, 1923

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2023-02-17

"Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

🎨 Walter Schnackenberg

12 68
2023-02-17

“The world has always been the same -
An endless farce, an antic game,
A universal masquerade!” (Goethe)

🎨 AbigailLarson

27 101
2023-02-16