Zhusana (Mavis Purdy)
@zhusana.bsky.social
Children play on the huge Joske's of San Antonio Texas Santa Claus, 1960
Photos: (A. Y. Owen)
Photos: (A. Y. Owen)
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Children play on the huge Joske's of San Antonio Texas Santa Claus, 1960
Photos: (A. Y. Owen)
Photos: (A. Y. Owen)
To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
From ‘Admonitions To A Special Person’
— Anne Sexton
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
From ‘Admonitions To A Special Person’
— Anne Sexton
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
From ‘Admonitions To A Special Person’
— Anne Sexton
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
From ‘Admonitions To A Special Person’
— Anne Sexton
Voting is PEOPLE POWER!
Two women hold signs reading “Vote Baby Vote” and “Voting is People Power,” in front of City Hall, Flint, Michigan c. 1970. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett /Getty Images)
Two women hold signs reading “Vote Baby Vote” and “Voting is People Power,” in front of City Hall, Flint, Michigan c. 1970. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett /Getty Images)
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Voting is PEOPLE POWER!
Two women hold signs reading “Vote Baby Vote” and “Voting is People Power,” in front of City Hall, Flint, Michigan c. 1970. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett /Getty Images)
Two women hold signs reading “Vote Baby Vote” and “Voting is People Power,” in front of City Hall, Flint, Michigan c. 1970. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett /Getty Images)
Your comment started me wondering if she ever painted any self portraits.
I couldn’t find even one!
I couldn’t find even one!
October 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Your comment started me wondering if she ever painted any self portraits.
I couldn’t find even one!
I couldn’t find even one!
Via Mark Richard Beaulieu (FB)
October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Via Mark Richard Beaulieu (FB)
Via Mark Richard Beaulieu (FB)
October 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Via Mark Richard Beaulieu (FB)
More GOLD please!
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
More GOLD please!
Hi, hateful. No one else tore it down.
#EpsteinBallroom
#EpsteinBallroom
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Hi, hateful. No one else tore it down.
#EpsteinBallroom
#EpsteinBallroom
Marianne North was an unusual woman for her time. She believed religion to be “mumbo jumbo,” marriage to be “a terrible experiment,” and travel companions to be “tiresome.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Marianne North was an unusual woman for her time. She believed religion to be “mumbo jumbo,” marriage to be “a terrible experiment,” and travel companions to be “tiresome.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
Born today! Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Born today! Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...
Pete Souza published this photo titled "Rain and the Rose Garden”, with the caption, "When the skies opened up one fall afternoon, I saw the President reach out to feel the raindrops".
President Barack Obama on the Colonnade of the White House, October 15, 2014, when a sudden rainstorm began.
President Barack Obama on the Colonnade of the White House, October 15, 2014, when a sudden rainstorm began.
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Pete Souza published this photo titled "Rain and the Rose Garden”, with the caption, "When the skies opened up one fall afternoon, I saw the President reach out to feel the raindrops".
President Barack Obama on the Colonnade of the White House, October 15, 2014, when a sudden rainstorm began.
President Barack Obama on the Colonnade of the White House, October 15, 2014, when a sudden rainstorm began.
Photo: Leonard Freed.
A policewoman plays games with community children. Shortly afterward, the officer became pregnant and was assigned a desk job for the period of her pregnancy, 1978, from Police Work
© Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos
A policewoman plays games with community children. Shortly afterward, the officer became pregnant and was assigned a desk job for the period of her pregnancy, 1978, from Police Work
© Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Photo: Leonard Freed.
A policewoman plays games with community children. Shortly afterward, the officer became pregnant and was assigned a desk job for the period of her pregnancy, 1978, from Police Work
© Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos
A policewoman plays games with community children. Shortly afterward, the officer became pregnant and was assigned a desk job for the period of her pregnancy, 1978, from Police Work
© Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos
Two young women in a meadow
📷: Charles Augustin Lhermitte (1912)
Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
📷: Charles Augustin Lhermitte (1912)
Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Two young women in a meadow
📷: Charles Augustin Lhermitte (1912)
Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
📷: Charles Augustin Lhermitte (1912)
Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
The worst of the worst!
Dog killer and takes bribes.
Dog killer and takes bribes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The worst of the worst!
Dog killer and takes bribes.
Dog killer and takes bribes.
"I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth”
-Cristina García Rodero (born 14 October 1949) is a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristin...
-Cristina García Rodero (born 14 October 1949) is a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristin...
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth”
-Cristina García Rodero (born 14 October 1949) is a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristin...
-Cristina García Rodero (born 14 October 1949) is a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristin...
“This is the precept
by which I have lived:
Prepare for the worst;
expect the best;
and take what comes.”
― Hannah Arendt
Born today! Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German-born American historian, political philosopher and theorist.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...
by which I have lived:
Prepare for the worst;
expect the best;
and take what comes.”
― Hannah Arendt
Born today! Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German-born American historian, political philosopher and theorist.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“This is the precept
by which I have lived:
Prepare for the worst;
expect the best;
and take what comes.”
― Hannah Arendt
Born today! Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German-born American historian, political philosopher and theorist.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...
by which I have lived:
Prepare for the worst;
expect the best;
and take what comes.”
― Hannah Arendt
Born today! Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German-born American historian, political philosopher and theorist.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...
October 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Part of his ‘RETRIBUTION REVENGE TOUR’?
Trump has canceled grants for cities across the country to develop bike lanes because he claims the lanes are “hostile” to cars. 🚲
Fun fact. DonOLD has never ridden a bicycle!
Is he still mad about this??? 🙄😳😆
www.governing.com/transportati...
Trump has canceled grants for cities across the country to develop bike lanes because he claims the lanes are “hostile” to cars. 🚲
Fun fact. DonOLD has never ridden a bicycle!
Is he still mad about this??? 🙄😳😆
www.governing.com/transportati...
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Part of his ‘RETRIBUTION REVENGE TOUR’?
Trump has canceled grants for cities across the country to develop bike lanes because he claims the lanes are “hostile” to cars. 🚲
Fun fact. DonOLD has never ridden a bicycle!
Is he still mad about this??? 🙄😳😆
www.governing.com/transportati...
Trump has canceled grants for cities across the country to develop bike lanes because he claims the lanes are “hostile” to cars. 🚲
Fun fact. DonOLD has never ridden a bicycle!
Is he still mad about this??? 🙄😳😆
www.governing.com/transportati...
Agatha Christie (center) in a dance class recital at Torquay, 1904.
Happy #ChristieDay
Born today! Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_...
Happy #ChristieDay
Born today! Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_...
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Agatha Christie (center) in a dance class recital at Torquay, 1904.
Happy #ChristieDay
Born today! Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_...
Happy #ChristieDay
Born today! Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_...