This picture has
destroyed
my day and
will haunt me
for months
if not years.

My hair is
standing
on end and
I haven't
been able
to stop shivering.

My bumpy pumpkin, Princess.


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The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all.  It's a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you've got in as many supplies as you can.  It's nice to gather together everything you possess as close as possible, to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core ( Read more... )

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When his shop in Poland was seized in 1942, Edmund Monsiel became convinced that the Nazis were going to come and arrest him and hid in the windowless attic of his brother’s house in Lublin. Under these conditions he began to draw by candlelight on small scraps of paper. He stayed in the attic for twenty years until his death in 1967. After his ( Read more... )