President Donald J Trump refused to visit Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris. He referred to the 1800 US Marines buried there after WWI as “suckers”. “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” Don McCullin Shell-shocked US Marine The Battle of Hue, Vietnam 1968

“You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm." ~Penny Reid - Beard in Mind Luca Ponsato “Rules For Thee, Not For Me” mixed media

I’m a Beck fan and this new, lush sounding song is captivating …along with a compelling video with the riveting Denis Lavant. ❤️ youtu.be/XNYj8R1Aq3s?...

Beck - In The Night

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“You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it.” ~ Russell T Davies Andrea Kowch “The Window” 2010 acrylic on canvas

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog." -Charles M. Schultz Pete Thorne, photographer Senior Dog series “Jackson”, “Hazel”, “Elmo”, “Manse”, “Colonel Sanders”

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ― Miriam Adeney Andrea Kowch Reunion 2018 Acrylic on canvas

“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.” ~ Wendell Berry Bastienne Schmidt / Philippe Cheng 📷 Russian Easter, family and friends gather to remember the dead

“Deep” is a figurative depiction of a friend’s lifelong struggle with depression. Her description of these episodes was one of being dragged down to the bottom of the sea with no escape…” Brian Bailey “Deep” Pastel on paper

“I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.” ~ Alice Walker Sebastião Salgado A Himba Woman Kaokoland, Namibia, 2005

“Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.” ― Lance Morcan Steve Mills, Colorful News, 2023 Oil on Panel

Best Star Trek captain. Wrong answers only. Captain Crunch….he’s only a danger to the roof of your mouth

Douglas Cheape@douglascheape.bsky.social · 4w ago

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea” ~ ISAK DINESEN Carina Francioso Marea Luminosa (Luminous Tide) Oil on Aluminum Composite Panel 2025.

@delt.bsky.social and…..belated good morning to you too, D 😊

“You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.” — Olivia Laing Seth Armstrong “Purple" 2017 Oil on paper adhered to wood

@delt.bsky.social I guess you got the perfect gift for your birthday….a healthy heart. Here is another kind of heart…

"People speak sometimes about the bestial cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Jack Delano “Freak Show” 1941 State Fair in Rutland, Vermont

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men” ~ Alice Walker Sebastião Salgado, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 2005 (L) Damaraland, Namibia, 2005 (R)

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. - Rabindranath Tagore Peter Slade "mind your step" 2022, acrylic on canvas

“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.” ~ Mary Oliver Andreas Feininger (1906-99) 4th of July, 1949 Coney Island, Brooklyn NY

“Men often ask me, 'Why are your female characters so paranoid?' It's not paranoia. It's recognition of their situation.” ~ Margaret Atwood Donna Ferrato Meredith and Rebel Santa Cruz Ca, 1999

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart. ~Janet Fitch Leeah Joo Pojagi passion Oil on canvas

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else..” ~ Marilyn Monroe Marilyn in a hotel in NYC photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1955

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film.” – Ansel Adams Joan Latchford “Hare Krishna” Yonge Street, Toronto 1971

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” ~ James Baldwin “Floating Heads” by Daniel Sprick oil on panel

"The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Rob Pointon Climb up the Orme, 2026 Oil On Linen

“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people.” ~ Carl Jung Patrick Kramer Do Not Swim oil on canvas

“He left her weak not expecting her to fly but wings grow strong once the cage is gone and she left him in the shade with her wings in the sun.” ~ atticus Imogen Cunningham, The Dream - 1910

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” – Anais Nin Stephanie Rew “The Last Note” Oil and 24ct gold leaf on linen

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Sebastião Salgado Suruwahá Indigenous Territory State Of Amazonas, Brazil 2017

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail." - David Sedaris, Naked Mike Bayne Liquor, 2010 Oil on panel