I love the dark hours of my being
in which my senses drop into the deep.
I have found in them, as in old letters,
my private life, that is already lived through,
and become wide and powerful now, like legends.
Then I know that there is room in me
for a second huge and timeless life.Rainer Maria Rilke
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Oehme’s Three Young Girls, c. 1845
Princess Ileana of Romania.
“Cinderella” by Sir John Everett Millais
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1928
When oil was discovered along the Kern River bank in 1899 near Bakersfield, California, thousands of fortune seekers, oil companies, and railroads rushed to the state, setting up oil fields up and down the coast. This particular picture is from Huntington Beach (Surf City).
…Which still looks pretty much like this to this day. Sometimes from the pier you can see a band of orange-green all across the horizon.
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