Das Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book Of Miracles) Augsburg, Ca. 1552.

Henry Meynell Rheam - Once Upon A Time

“It takes a tremendous amount of energy and focus to change bad habits. Be patient with yourself. It's not an easy task.”

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“But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.”

~Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception

Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom

The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp, the better I understand its history as a place of refuge. Each ripping thorn and sucking mudhole makes it clearer. It was the dense, tangled hostility of the swamp and its enormous size that enabled hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of escaped slaves to live here in freedom.

We don’t know much about them, but thanks to the archaeologist hacking through the mire ahead of me, we know they were out here, subsisting in hidden communities, and using almost nothing from the outside world until the 19th century. The Dismal Swamp covered great tracts of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina, and its vegetation was far too thick for horses or canoes. In the early 1600s, Native Americans fleeing the colonial frontier took refuge here, and they were soon joined by fugitive slaves, and probably some whites escaping indentured servitude or hiding from the law. From about 1680 to the Civil War, it appears that the swamp communities were dominated by Africans and African-Americans. Read more.

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The Tinkerbell Effect refers to things that only exist because people believe in them- like taking a placebo pill and feeling better because you’ve convinced yourself it was real medicine. 

There’s also a Reverse Tinkerbell Effect, where the more you believe in something the more it’s bound to vanish - like being so convinced it’s safe to drive that cars actually become more dangerous because your illusion of safety causes you to drive with less caution. 

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The Briar Rose Book of Old Fairy Tales Illustrated by Anne Anderson. T. C. & E. C. Jack, LDT. .c.1920.

I See You !! by wendysalisbury on Flickr.

The kiss sculpture in Vienna Central cemetery.