A Paladin’s Venture
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“Life is short, the fruit of this life is a good character & acts for the common good” - Marcus Aurelius
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Not a bad scan of my slight digital presence from www.blueskyroast.com I should do less quotes and more rage bait posting for 2025, shake things up and sharpen me up and make me ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence 🕰️ 🍊 📖😉
Out chasing waterfalls today in the freezing Irish countryside 🥶.
#waterfall
#ireland
#powerscourtwaterfall
#nature
#waterfall
#ireland
#powerscourtwaterfall
#nature
January 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Out chasing waterfalls today in the freezing Irish countryside 🥶.
#waterfall
#ireland
#powerscourtwaterfall
#nature
#waterfall
#ireland
#powerscourtwaterfall
#nature
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Happy New Year from Albufeira (Algarve, Portugal)!🥳
📷 Highlights from last night's fireworks and drone show
📷 Highlights from last night's fireworks and drone show
January 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Happy New Year from Albufeira (Algarve, Portugal)!🥳
📷 Highlights from last night's fireworks and drone show
📷 Highlights from last night's fireworks and drone show
Took a peek at 2025 and the sun is shining, that’s a good sign isn’t it 😅 …or it’s just lulling us into a false sense of security 😬 …time will tell. Happy New Year to all 😊.
#happynewyear
#isitthefutureyet
#happynewyear
#isitthefutureyet
January 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Took a peek at 2025 and the sun is shining, that’s a good sign isn’t it 😅 …or it’s just lulling us into a false sense of security 😬 …time will tell. Happy New Year to all 😊.
#happynewyear
#isitthefutureyet
#happynewyear
#isitthefutureyet
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Morning.
Christmas Elves sheltering under a robin’s wings, Margaret Tarrant.
Christmas Elves sheltering under a robin’s wings, Margaret Tarrant.
December 25, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Morning.
Christmas Elves sheltering under a robin’s wings, Margaret Tarrant.
Christmas Elves sheltering under a robin’s wings, Margaret Tarrant.
The kids are up even earlier than last year 🥱, here we go again! 🎄 #MerryChristmas
December 25, 2024 at 6:04 AM
The kids are up even earlier than last year 🥱, here we go again! 🎄 #MerryChristmas
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
Merry Christmas!🎄😊
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
Merry Christmas!🎄😊
December 23, 2024 at 10:40 PM
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
Merry Christmas!🎄😊
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
Merry Christmas!🎄😊
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“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
#ClassicLitMonday
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
#ClassicLitMonday
December 23, 2024 at 10:26 AM
“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
#ClassicLitMonday
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
#ClassicLitMonday
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
December 9, 2024 at 9:44 PM
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
#ClassicLitMonday 📖
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Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.
#Dickens A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday
#Dickens A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday
a man wearing a top hat and a black coat looks at the camera
ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a black coat looks at the camera
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December 9, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.
#Dickens A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday
#Dickens A Christmas Carol
#ClassicLitMonday
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#ClassicLitMonday
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
a woman with red hair and a green coat says oh look another glorious morning
Alt: a woman with red hair and a green coat says oh look another glorious morning
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December 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
#ClassicLitMonday
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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"...who bragged that they could not read; they prided themselves on the sort of militant ignorance that gave them the audacity to censure what they knew nothing about."
--Madeleine de Scudéry--
📖 The Story of Sapho
translated by Karen Newman
🖼️Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#ClassicLitMonday
--Madeleine de Scudéry--
📖 The Story of Sapho
translated by Karen Newman
🖼️Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#ClassicLitMonday
December 9, 2024 at 4:21 PM
"...who bragged that they could not read; they prided themselves on the sort of militant ignorance that gave them the audacity to censure what they knew nothing about."
--Madeleine de Scudéry--
📖 The Story of Sapho
translated by Karen Newman
🖼️Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#ClassicLitMonday
--Madeleine de Scudéry--
📖 The Story of Sapho
translated by Karen Newman
🖼️Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#ClassicLitMonday
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Back in the days, Norwegians believed that the dead might pay a visit on Christmas night, therefore all beds had to be kept unoccupied, so the ancestors could sleep in them.
#GothicAdvent #ijulemørket
Illustration: IsidorSwande
#GothicAdvent #ijulemørket
Illustration: IsidorSwande
December 8, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Back in the days, Norwegians believed that the dead might pay a visit on Christmas night, therefore all beds had to be kept unoccupied, so the ancestors could sleep in them.
#GothicAdvent #ijulemørket
Illustration: IsidorSwande
#GothicAdvent #ijulemørket
Illustration: IsidorSwande
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#BookWormSat “My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
December 7, 2024 at 7:06 PM
#BookWormSat “My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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The candle’s light did show a world in shadow, but soft enough to keep the heart’s deepest secrets safe.’ ~ Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale. #BookWormSat
December 7, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The candle’s light did show a world in shadow, but soft enough to keep the heart’s deepest secrets safe.’ ~ Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale. #BookWormSat
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‘The candlelight flickered faintly, casting long shadows on the walls as if trying to escape the weight of the night.’ ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Pieter Claesz
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Pieter Claesz
December 7, 2024 at 5:33 PM
‘The candlelight flickered faintly, casting long shadows on the walls as if trying to escape the weight of the night.’ ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Pieter Claesz
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Pieter Claesz
“The days of our future stand in front of us
like a row of little lit candles --
golden, warm, and lively little candles.”
Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by agarthaai2030
#bookquotes
#literature
like a row of little lit candles --
golden, warm, and lively little candles.”
Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by agarthaai2030
#bookquotes
#literature
December 7, 2024 at 2:21 PM
“The days of our future stand in front of us
like a row of little lit candles --
golden, warm, and lively little candles.”
Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by agarthaai2030
#bookquotes
#literature
like a row of little lit candles --
golden, warm, and lively little candles.”
Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by agarthaai2030
#bookquotes
#literature
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"And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book... flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out forever."
—Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
#BookWormSat
—Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
#BookWormSat
December 7, 2024 at 2:00 AM
"And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book... flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out forever."
—Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
#BookWormSat
—Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
#BookWormSat
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Night's winged horses
No one can outpace
But midnight is no moment
Midnight is a place
🖊 Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place
#BookWormSat
##BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
No one can outpace
But midnight is no moment
Midnight is a place
🖊 Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place
#BookWormSat
##BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
December 7, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Night's winged horses
No one can outpace
But midnight is no moment
Midnight is a place
🖊 Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place
#BookWormSat
##BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
No one can outpace
But midnight is no moment
Midnight is a place
🖊 Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place
#BookWormSat
##BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
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Behind every twisted candle, lies a story waiting to be unraveled.
The Sign Of The Twisted Candles
Carolyn Keene
#BookWormSat
The Sign Of The Twisted Candles
Carolyn Keene
#BookWormSat
December 7, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Behind every twisted candle, lies a story waiting to be unraveled.
The Sign Of The Twisted Candles
Carolyn Keene
#BookWormSat
The Sign Of The Twisted Candles
Carolyn Keene
#BookWormSat
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“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father.” ~ A Christmas Carol in Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas (1843), Charles Dickens.
#BookWormSat #MarvelComics #Spoilers
[🎨Bob Hall]
#BookWormSat #MarvelComics #Spoilers
[🎨Bob Hall]
December 7, 2024 at 10:26 AM
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father.” ~ A Christmas Carol in Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas (1843), Charles Dickens.
#BookWormSat #MarvelComics #Spoilers
[🎨Bob Hall]
#BookWormSat #MarvelComics #Spoilers
[🎨Bob Hall]
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#BookWormSat
A glance at the window enlightened me further, and the striking of a match completed the picture.
-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
A glance at the window enlightened me further, and the striking of a match completed the picture.
-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
rapunzel from tangled is standing in front of three lit candles in a dark room .
Alt: rapunzel from tangled is standing in front of three lit candles in a dark room .
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December 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
#BookWormSat
A glance at the window enlightened me further, and the striking of a match completed the picture.
-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
A glance at the window enlightened me further, and the striking of a match completed the picture.
-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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"I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark"(Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)
Here is my song "The Lingering Light"
#bookwormsat
Listen here and add it to your playlists 🕯️🙏 open.spotify.com/track/1xXKea...
Here is my song "The Lingering Light"
#bookwormsat
Listen here and add it to your playlists 🕯️🙏 open.spotify.com/track/1xXKea...
December 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
"I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark"(Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)
Here is my song "The Lingering Light"
#bookwormsat
Listen here and add it to your playlists 🕯️🙏 open.spotify.com/track/1xXKea...
Here is my song "The Lingering Light"
#bookwormsat
Listen here and add it to your playlists 🕯️🙏 open.spotify.com/track/1xXKea...
“All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by AlejandroCastillo
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by AlejandroCastillo
December 7, 2024 at 2:15 PM
“All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by AlejandroCastillo
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by AlejandroCastillo
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by fabianrensch
#bookquotes
#literature
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by fabianrensch
#bookquotes
#literature
December 7, 2024 at 2:14 PM
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by fabianrensch
#bookquotes
#literature
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
#BookWormSat 📖 ‘Candlelight’🕯️
#Art 🎨 by fabianrensch
#bookquotes
#literature