Quickwitter

harvestheart:

Dry Cleaner practicing “Random Acts of Kindness.” 

“If you are unemployed and need an outfit clean[ed] for an interview, we will clean if for FREE.”

I wish there was more of this kind of thing around.

reginasworld:

Image by Bill Wadman

fletchingarrows:

mont st. michel.

This almost looks like a sci-fi illustration/painting of a world in a vast wasterland, rather than what it really is, a city in northern France. :)

jonathancarrollstories:

Valentine for Ernest Mann
by Naomi Shihab Nye

You can’t order a poem like you order a taco.
Walk up to the counter, say, “I’ll take two”
and expect it to be handed back to you
on a shiny plate.

Still, I like your spirit.
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
So I’ll tell you a secret instead:
poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping. They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings the moment
before we wake up. What we have to do
is live in a way that lets us find them.

Once I knew a man who gave his wife
two skunks for a valentine.
He couldn’t understand why she was crying.
“I thought they had such beautiful eyes.”
And he was serious. He was a serious man
who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly
just because the world said so. He really
liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them
as valentines and they became beautiful.
At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding
in the eyes of skunks for centuries
crawled out and curled up at his feet.

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us
we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock
in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite.
And let me know.

(Jonathan Carroll)

chickenlady94:

Contemplating his existence.

Frizzle Rooster, love the wild hairdo! Whimsical.

pocketcontents:

superseventies:

Anjelica Huston wearing a dress by Valentino, 1972. Photo by Gian Paolo Barbieri.

Please to be finding me this dress.

I LOVE the movement in this shot, and she is selling the hell out of that dress! Her mom was a ballerina, and you can see that kind of grace here. This is right around the time she started dating Jack Nicholson. She was mostly a model and doing bit parts in her Dad, John Houston’s movies. If you haven’t seen her in Prizzi’s Honor or The Grifters - you haven’t seen how good she really is. Fun seeing her in Smash.

(Source: andreasanterini)

Look what kids had to do before computer games. They had to go outside, sell beverages to neighbors, and read a book that they most likely checked out of the library which meant they had to take care of it and return it when they were finished. Man it sucked.

bygoneamericana:

Boy selling Coca Cola from roadside stand. Atlanta, 1936.

By Alfred Eisenstaedt

(Source: images.google.com)

One of these things is not like the others

I found it! That’s my story circled in red, it’s from my Tumblr writing blog TwiceToldTales.

I’m oddly honored that it was reblogged here. It’s the only post I saw that is not a photo or video featuring a naked woman.

Hey, it provides a little respite from all the gals.

I’m going out on a limb here and guessing that stories like mine are NOT primarily what folks come to this blog site for…could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Sure gave me a good chuckle when I saw it.

I love this photo. The woman is shrouded but she’s FAR from shy. Consider that @lapetitecole reports that this was taken nearly a century ago in Oman. Yet, it looks very modern. This woman radiates confidence. One hand on her hip, back tall, leaning slightly forward toward the photographer. She’s making direct eye contact with the photographer. The arm on her knee is relaxed but she’s also protecting herself, her legs crossed, but with one shoe off, showing her toe rings, which is a little flirty. She totally knows what she’s doing and in control the situation. I wonder what her relationship to the photographer had been…

lapetitecole:

Oman  1917  National Geographic   photographer unknown

(Source: kicker-of-elves)

organicandurban:

Tugelatuin

A community garden in Amsterdam with fantastic raised beds all around. These are sectioned off and each child is given a square to tend. Too awesome.

How cool is this? And what a great way to introduce kids to the fun of gardening and beautify the community.

Fasciated “Shorty” Mediterranean Spurge
Euphorbia wulfennii
from ©Addictedtopix’s photostream

Every so often, gardeners find a deformed-looking flower or stem that appears as if the plant has bulked up on steroids. but this is so lovely.

malformalady:

The Chinese practiced footbinding for about a millennium, starting during the Sung Dynasty, perhaps as early as the 10th century, and ending in the 20th century. The crippling process to create a 3-inch “lily foot” was painful, but was undergone because it enhanced marital prospects by making the girl more sexually appealing.

Footbinding to 3” - think about it. A business card is 3.5” long. To follow is a photo of a pair of shoes made for bound feet. I found them in a Shanghai junk store.