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A protester carries a U.S. flag upside down May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“It was dammed up in me, and I wrote it under internal pressure in seven weeks. I wish I could write it again.”
It was on this day in 1936 that Zora Neale Hurston finished the manuscript of her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
#Booksky
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The New Moon in Dec 2025 occurs today, Friday, Dec 19, 2025, at approximately 8:41 PM ET / 5:43 PM PT, falling in the sign of Sagittarius, and marks the last New Moon of the year, bringing themes of long-range goals, vision, and a spiritual reset before Capricorn season
Art by Carrie Paris
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December 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Evening Star
Georgia O'Keeffe (1917)
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Egyptian Statuette, representing a lion, devouring a Nubian :
Made of bone, gold and Egyptian blue.
From the eastern delta of Qantir, in Egypt, New Kingdom, 9th Dynasty, under the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II - 1279-1213 BC.
MET Museum
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December 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
~ Colette
'Siesta'
Orazio Orazi, Italy, 1912
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December 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.”
~ Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
#Booksky #cormacmccarthy #Cormac #stellamaris
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Texas Storm Chasers
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Susan DuBose
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Magazine Street, New Orleans
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December 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“The more horrifying this world becomes (as it is in these days) the more art becomes abstract.” (from his WWI diary)
Born today in 1879 artist Paul Klee
Runner at the Goal (Läufer am Ziel) 1921
Watercolor and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Santa Claus made from buttons, shells & other items
Artist: Jane Perkins
December 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Vladimir Akinshin
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Dragonfly Tree by Shirley Bell
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
" ...you're a strange stray cat"
"Cats are musicians without instruments."
Happy Birthday musician Keith Richards.
Born: December 18, 1943, Dartford, United Kingdom
Richards by Hedi Slimane
Richards by Claude Gassian
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
'L Angelus Novus' 1920
'Ghost of a Genius' 1922
Paul Klee
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
'Cat and Bird'
Paul Klee, 1928
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.”
Born on this day painter Paul Klee 1879
Portrait Klee by Serge Vasilændiuc
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Kozuli are ritual cookies made of rye / wheat flour.
They were often baked in the form of cows, sheep, horses & presented to relatives & carolers.
They were also hung as a protective amulet at home & the pastry was used for fortunetelling during Christmastide.
ukrainian-recipes.com/kozuli.html
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It is Epona's Day today - 18th December - the only Celtic festival to be incorporated into the Roman religious calendar.
If you are hurried, burdened or overwhelmed, this is the day to throw over the traces and graze in fields of rest.
#Witchsky
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Epona oil
Epona is a Celtic goddess of horses and all draft animals, who was adopted by Roman soldiers as they colonized Gaul. She is the only Celtic deity to have been adopted into the Roman pantheon, and from...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Epona, Celtic & Roman Goddess of Horses
Artist: Joan Dumouchel
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Winter Solstice in 2025 occurs on Sunday, December 21st, marking the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere, with the exact moment happening at 9:03 a.m. CST
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December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Sacred Herbs of Yule and Christmas: Remedies, Recipes, Magic, and Brews for the Winter Season
by Ellen Evert Hopman
An around-the-world tour of ancient Christmas celebrations, Pagan Solstice customs, and magical seasonal plants
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December 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM