Soar on, Tatsuya Nakadai. Soar on. 💫🌠 He was 92. nytimes.com/2025/11/11/mov…

"Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far, I have escaped it." ~ Hungarian-American investor & financier, George Soros latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

"I say let the world go to Hell, but I should always have my tea." ~ Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)

theosophytrust.org/771-the-allego… Most people don't actually care to learn the truth about the world in which we live. That part is obvious - but what else can be expected? This siuation is perhaps best represented through the telling of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

By Ching Yee Lim ~ Rococo versus Chinoiserie: thecollector.com/chinoiserie-vs…

You cannot count on anyone in this world but yourself.

“Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman president everything will be alright. But it won't be." ~ Gore Vidal (1925 - 2012) Image: Colourized photo of JFK, Tennessee Williams, and Gore Vidal.

It is a great philosophy to live by. But for me? There 𝘢𝘳𝘦 some exceptions. I don't accept 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.

A Facebook post of mine regarding the communications between Jeffrey Epstein and Kathryn Ruemmler - the latter of whom flew to Dallas at the end of February of 2016 to meet Yours Truly - something I was not made aware of before it happened for the record: facebook.com/share/p/1DLNw1…

By Shin Egashira and photography by Isamu Yamamoto ~ "Japan’s Kamiichi Pavilion was conceived as a rest hut where climbers could contemplate the surrounding mountain range and melt-water river that the man responsible had so beautifully framed." worldofinteriors.com/story/kamiichi…

"I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me." ~ English stage and screen actress, Dame Judi Dench 💜💜💜