“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

“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

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“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

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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

Christmas Journey 🎄🐶🚗 Gary Bunt art. ❄️

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)…GPS tells you where to go but maps show you where you could go.” https://t.co/IzTqcQ9uY6

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.” ― David L. Ulin

„This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath." Margaret Atwood

"The day is lonely today. And the world is crazy. I wonder whether it will ever be sane again. Probably not."

🔘 for December 21, 2025 Winter Solstice “THE SOLSTICE” “They say the sun will come back” ~ W. S. Merwin

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” ~ Henry David Thoreau 💙 https://t.co/glP6WVzjGA Painting by John Lautermilch

“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.” “Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.” ~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 📷 Kevin Trageser

“Can you describe this?” And I said: “I can.” Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face.” ~ Anna Akhmatova

Dearest, may you be protected from bad dreams, no matter how much meaning and warning they may contain. Franz Kafka, 1913.