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Tibor M. Kalman
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Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. 🙏🏼🌎 🕊️

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard

Budapest HU║Long Beach CA
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“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”

― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.
a starry night sky with trees silhouetted against it
ALT: a starry night sky with trees silhouetted against it
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"You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”

― Pip to Estella, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861.

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📷 English Literature
February 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
Le Blanc-Seing, The Blank Signature, 1965.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
"One of my favorite things here in the North is just sitting and watching the weather. The constant changes fascinate me. Especially during winter when the golden light lasts for hours."

Lofoten Islands, Norway 🇳🇴, 2026.

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📷 Christian Hoiberg Photography©️
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"Since the unrest began in late December, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency confirmed the deaths of 6,872 civilian protesters in Iran 🇮🇷."

— BBC

The Iranian regime must be held accountable for this unspeakable carnage; the mass murder of its own citizens.

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February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter, 1904-1989.
Galatea of the Spheres, 1952.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
A guide to hearts:

❤️ unconditional, universal love
💔 grieving, broken heart
❤️‍🩹 incrementally healing heart
💖 sparkling, effervescent love
💘 doting, romantic love
❤️‍🔥 mad, passionate love
💝 caring, compassionate love
🖤 dark, callous heart
🤍 peaceful, tranquil heart
a woman is smiling and says i 'll try to remember that
ALT: a woman is smiling and says i 'll try to remember that
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February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Rubens Santoro, Italian painter, 1859-1942.
A Family Outing on a Venetian Canal, c. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.

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📷 Anthony Macchiarulo | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Ok, I’ll be the first to say it.

Bad Bunny for President 2028!

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#SuperBowl #ElPresidente 🕺🏼
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853–1890.
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate Is Love!

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#PeaceOnEarth #SuperBowl

📷 Vanity Fair©️
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Hey MAGAs, Bad Bunny is gone. Really provocative stuff. Some Latin music, dancing, a wedding scene, more dancing, flags from Western Hemisphere brought out, US flag in the front.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️

How on earth will we survive this?

#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I was today years old.

"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."

📷 Discover©️
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926.
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
February 9, 2026 at 12:07 AM
"Arctic dreams in Scoresbysund, Greenland 🇬🇱. One week aboard the Opal schooner — living on the sea, landing by zodiac, and photographing ice, wilderness, and silence like nowhere else on Earth."

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📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
February 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Congratulations to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall last night in New York.

Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.

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📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Tonight, as Bad Bunny sings in his native Spanish, sharing the stage with Californian punk rockers, Green Day, I'll reminisce growing up in a bilingual, immigrant family. I'll ponder the beauty and genius of America; a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages.

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#SuperBowlLX
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
"Holendrechterweg, Netherlands."

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📷 Photo by Spaski Schippers©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Ellen Louise Clacy, British painter, 1853–1916.
The Return of the Prodigal Daughter in the Year of the Great Plague, 1887.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 Annan Museum, Scotland | Virtual Art Museum
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."

— Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

Renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform the beautiful, breathtaking ending of Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896.

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February 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Popocatepelt vulkán, Mexikó."

The ultimate act of faith, building this church, at this specific location.

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📷 From Medárd©️
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"Icefalls ... Haffner Canyon in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦."

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📷 Photo by Jon Handforth©️
February 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
On the eve of what would have been his 90th birthday, my heart is filled with gratitude and appreciation for my late father, Szabolcs Soby Kalman. He lived an exemplary life, on both sides of the Atlantic. May he rest in eternal peace.

February 9, 1936 - April 9, 2024.

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February 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Elizabeth Lee Miller, American photographer, 1907–1977.

"A successful model in New York in the 1920s before moving to Paris, Lee Miller became an established fashion and art photographer, and an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue during WWII."

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📷 Fotograficamente©️
February 8, 2026 at 11:17 AM
"We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."

— Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden perform Adagio, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, composed in 1907.

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February 8, 2026 at 11:06 AM
"In each picture is a whole lifetime imprisoned, a whole lifetime of fears, doubts, hopes, and joys. Whither is this lifetime tending?"

— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.

Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

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📷 The Marginalian
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM