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“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.” ~ Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion Charlie Mackesy

Buon riposino, a chi può 😽🫶😉📖 Tornerò tra alcuni giorni.🙋‍♀️ Al momento, sono troppo occupata, con appuntamenti e impegni vari. Offline⛔️ 🖼courtesy by Instagram.com

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” — E.B. White

Suzanne Valadon - Flowers in Front of a Window 1930

#Catart by The Gothic barn collection

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was." - Milan Kundera

Anna Tikhomirova, aka Annie Domini (Russian-British, b.1973) "Watching the Rain," 2017 Watercolor 11 x 17 in

More importantly though, today is also Saint Gertrude of Nivelles day. Saint Gertrude is the patron saint of cats, cat lovers and gardeners. Take extra naps and enjoy special treats to celebrate 🐈‍⬛🐈

March 17th is the feast day of St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of gardens and cats. #Catlore

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

St. Gertrude of Nivelles shares her feast day with St. Patrick. She is the patron saint of cats, gardeners and travellers; the original 'Cat Lady'. #StGertrudesDay😺 #FairytaleTuesday

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens

“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.” — Václav Havel

“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.” —Albert Camus

"I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book." Happy birthday to Patti Smith

Lynn Bywaters ( born 1957) #Christmas Dove 2013.

Martina Heiduczek, End of Day.

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“The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” —Louisa May Alcott, Little Women