Gold Bracelet
Byzantine, ca. 650 CE
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Gold Bracelet
Byzantine, ca. 650 CE
— Albert Camus to René Char, Correspondance (1946-1959).
“No longer, O honeytongued, holyvoiced maidens, can my limbs carry me. How I wish I were a kingfisher who flies above the blossoming foam with halcyons, fearless-hearted, a holy sea-purple bird.”
— Alkman, trans. by Diane Rayor from Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
it is sometimes recorded as an omen of death, but, in other instances, is described as companionable.
Jacobello Alberegno, The Harvest of the World, 1360-90
And another angel came out of the temple… and he too had a sharpened sickle. And another angel came out from the altar… saying: wield your sharpened sickle and harvest the grapes of the world, for the fruit is now ripe. - Book of the Apocalypse (XIII, vv. 17-18)
Daguerreotype portraits dated 1850-1860.
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) card
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה
Golden Haggadah, Barcelona, 1320(?)
Boots
Jerry Edouard
c.1975
The MET
Vintage moon and stars banjo heads
Comte de Charolais. Burgundy, 1432.
You spend alot of time in your head, make it a nice place to be💓