The Timothy Hopkins Collection of Sweet Peas - 21 varieties. Illustration from ‘Sherwood Hall Nursery’ catalogue 1893
Late Victorian mountaineers, including a lady fully dressed and corseted, cross a crevasse in the Alps, 1900 (from Getty Images’ book “Decades of the 20th Century—1900s” by Nick Yapp, scanned by WeirdVintage)
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”— Marilyn Monroe (via quotethatword)
David Wojnarowicz wore this jacket in 1988, just 4 years before he’d ultimately die from AIDS. Sadly, just a few years ago some of his artistic work was censored at the Smithsonian. People in power are still content to try and erase his history and the continued struggles of people with AIDS
“I found the Muse in myself. And I loved Her fiercely.”— Annie Finch, from Among the Goddesses: An Epic; “Muse-Goddess,”
