Death, online, at Yale
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via Madame Martin

The people who lived on St Kilda had their own culture. They lived off seabirds and were excellent climbers. An overhanging ledge above a jawdroppingly exposed cliff is known as the 'Lover's Stone.' Any man who wanted to take a wife had to prove his bravery and surefootedness by standing, on one leg, at the very end of this stone, with a 400m drop to the sea, until the elders were satisfied that he had what it would take to provide for a family in such a harsh environment. The ruler of St Kilda was always the oldest woman on the island, and people could be cut off from the outside world for months at a time by fierce winter storms.

From Where I Stand: California's river mouths

markham johnson photography

James Ravilious
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John Berger and Jean Mohr

A lahar
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Small lahars could suddenly descend the Toutle River

I travel in your head

Let us consider Daniil Kharms, the Russian writer often described as an absurdist, largely unpublished in his lifetime except for his children’s books, who starved to death in the psychiatric ward of a Soviet hospital during the siege of Leningrad, having been put there by the Stalinist government for, among other reasons, his general strangeness.

Daniil Karms via George Saunders and the NYT

When virtue's path his sons refuse.

Eye Contact

...which, unlike bees,

watch over us with their swan-like
necks and open their eyes at the right time
[...]
What's so great about the way the papers
blow through alleyways in the evening
like deflated rats? As if pride...

Craig Morgan Teicher
Verse Daily

"a 'fantastic' story about conditions at the residence"

Zhang Lin Hai
Schoeni Art Gallery
via la maine gauche

Straight Life The Movie
hand-made movie by Art Pepper's wife Laurie

The Willard Suitcase Exhibit Online

"...lamps, clothing, a bone-china teacup and saucer, hundreds of photos, her nursing diploma, citizenship papers and a pair of ice skates. Suffering from TB herself, and stressed over a series of illnesses and deaths among her loved ones, she was brought to Willard in 1941 without ever having seen a psychiatrist on the basis of complaints that she 'annoys people' and felt persecuted. On her way to the ward Margaret, 48, said she felt 'like a fly in a spider web.' She died there 32 years later."

Tales from the attic at the Willard Psychiatric Center in Romulus, N.Y. in the NYT

"Safety first" is the motto of Miss Mary Jayne of Keith's circuit

-Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C.

A mud hut, but full of books.

the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed

The Universe Nearby:

Sloan Great Wall wkpd
SGW APOD

*Portrait photographs 1920-1930, LoC:

Adolf Hitler leaving Landsberg imprisonment on December 20, 1924
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Jack Johnson 1928
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Jack Dempsey 1922
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Duke Kahanamoku 1928
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Rockwell Kent 1929
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Josephine Lucchese, colorature soprano 1926
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Stereograph of man with device designed for flying
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Tina Modotti
Edward Weston 1923
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Erich Maria Remarque 1929
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*Zelda Fitzgerald 1928
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Clara Bow 1929
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Dancer, Harlem, 1925
J. Van DerZee
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Edward Weston and Marguerite, 1922
Imogen Cunningham
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Dorothy Davenport Reid 1923
Dorothy Davenport at wikipedia
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Sioux veterans of the Battle of Little Big Horn on battleground 1926
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John Burroughs 1921
wikipedia
Wakerobin
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Lillian Gish 1922
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Klamath woman 1923
Edward Curtis

Man Ray, Mina Loy, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Ezra Pound...
image here

Exclusive debutantes in silhouette