Vermeer Rijksmuseum is an exceptional exhibition. If you have any chance to see it, don’t miss it. Beautiful, inspiring, life affirming.

Moon setting a few days ago behind Dry Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

“Mankiewicz exclaims in rightful fear. “I have no idea if he’s trying to be serious or funny!” Having watched it, I’m not quite sure either — but the TCM crew knows how to play ball.” polygon.com/23594837/dick-…

National park? (No, the top of a fence post) awesome though isn’t it?

Dune with flower scene in Borrego Badlands this morning with partly cloudy skies at sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Happy Valentine's Day ❤️ 📷: Sandhill Crane

Thelma Ritter, Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits...

See this Instagram video by Shibumi instagram.com/reel/Cp9vap3Mo…

Make a covenant with honesty. Honesty is often a case-by-case disclosure. Orientate to what feels like truth. Endless fictions fatigue us. — Martin Shaw

Today would have been Seamus Heaney’s 84th birthday. We should keep our feet on the ground to signify that nothing is beneath us, but we should also lift up our eyes to say nothing is beyond us.

Employment attorney Amy Hirsh appears to have won a special election to represent Trustee Area 5 on the Benicia Unified School District Board after taking a commanding lead in unofficial results released by the Solano County Registrar of Voters this week. vallejosun.com/amy-hirsh-appe…

Congratulations Amy! Local attorney holds big lead in Benicia Unified special election dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/so… via Daily Republic News

'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please." Montaigne

Keira Gomez Jenny Grant ❤️ "Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." - from Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

I could not agree more!

Langston Hughes:

The world is nature, and in the long run inevitably wild, because the wild, as the process and essence of nature, is also an ordering of impermanence.

Save the Benicia High School Drama Department! chng.it/nMzWPTph via Change.org

„It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.“ Henry James