Good morning, up at 3:00 a.m. empathically feeling the fear and danger of those fleeing from the California fires. Praying for firefighters, residents and livestock and pets hoping they can get containment soon! Please #PrayForCalifornia image: Etienne Laurent/AP

📷 Gray Eaton

Nothing stings like betrayal wrapped in love.

Apparently I posted this after not sleeping enough? Who knew?
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■ An Orphan Girl's Inheritance Petition on the Island of Crete, 1895 #history #orphan #crete #ottomanempire #old

"The petition written by Saliha, daughter of Ibrahim, a resident of the Seline District of the Chania Province of Crete, requesting the return of her share in the inheritance, 🡻

■ A Handwritten Poem and Picture about Istanbul from an Ottoman Student's Poetry Notebook in the 1900s. #history #istanbul #poetry #poem #book #sunset

SUNSET

The day's neck bowed on your horizon
Now Istanbul is a withered rose
Flow a little bit into my orphaned heart
Withered rose, Withered rose 🡻

■ ❧ Ottoman Poetry ☙

"With the meaning that bestows life, the tree of Jesus,
Is Mary, who has taken Jesus in her arms..."

(Mesîhî, 1470-1512)
#history #poem #poet #poetry #Jesus #Mary

A Native American mother and child, 1902.

The Lady of Shalott) is an oil painting on canvas by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse, from 1888. The work is on display at the Tate Britain gallery, in London. A representation that illustrates the poem by Englishman Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), "The Lady of Shalott".

Sunday David Hettinger

Johann Peter Hasenclever, " Young woman at the open window looking at the full moon, 1840. Nitess💤

A moment of quiet contemplation. This #wolf embodies the serenity of the wild.

#Animals #Wolves #Wildlife #Nature