Amy Williamson

In New Orleans at the Teacher Leader Summit with the Airline High School Peeps! Coach Kim Mulkey was the guest speaker.

Some pictures from Airline Graduation!

Stained-glass staircase by Piet Mondrian, from the 1900s.

“People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is life✅

Yay! I am a winner!

Last day with my Airline seniors!

Last day with my seniors!

Melania is the most beautiful and well dressed First Lady in history.

"In theory, there is a perfect opportunity for happiness: a quiet room, a window, a comfortable chair and a book." Kafka

Sea turtle hatchlings begin their solitary transoceanic migration.

Let’s get to work @ahsvikes

"Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them." ~ Jean Cocteau

In the Louvre Museum in Paris, there is a marble sculpture whose wings are carved so thinly that when sunlight passes through them, the stone glows gold... The sculpture is called Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss and it was carved by Antonio Canova between 1787 and 1793. The story comes from Lucius Apuleius's Latin novel Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century AD. Psyche is a mortal princess so beautiful that the goddess Venus grows jealous of her and orders her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous creature on earth. Cupid disobeys his mother and falls in love with Psyche himself. Their love is discovered. Venus, in fury, sets Psyche a series of impossible tasks. The final one is to descend into the underworld and bring back a flask containing a portion of the beauty of Proserpina, queen of the dead. Psyche is forbidden to open it. She opens it. Inside is not beauty but the Sleep of the Underworld, and it falls upon her like a black cloud. She collapses on the road, lifeless. Cupid finds her there. He bends down. He kisses her. Canova chose to carve the exact moment her body wakes... Psyche lies on a low rock, her body slack, her arms rising slowly toward Cupid as life returns to her. Cupid kneels above her, one hand cradling her head, the other against her breast. Their lips have not quite met. They are millimeters apart, and they have been for more than 200 years. Behind Cupid, his wings rise into the air. Canova carved them so thinly that when light strikes them at the right angle, the stone turns translucent and warm as honey... If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of history. You can join us here: james-lucas.com/welcome One story like this in your inbox every week.

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This person got stuck in a flood and accidentally created the greatest Toyota Hilux commercial of all time.