@MissAdventurous wait … the Vatican sent a priest over here to verify Shirley was a child ? Oooof! 😩
Charlotte and Marjorie Collyer, Titanic Survivors, June 1912. Colorized.
“Of the many shocking things that I remember in connection with the lost Titanic, there is one impression that will never leave me. It is the irony of the faith that I had in the big ship. “She is unsinkable,” I had been told, “she is the safest boat afloat.”
I had never been on an ocean voyage, and I was afraid of the sea. But I listened to the people who said: “Take the new Titanic. She can not come to any harm. New inventions have made her safe; and then, the officers will be extra careful on her first trip.”
That sounded as if it must be true; and so Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie, and I decided to go to America that way. Marjorie and I are here, safe, but we are alone. For my husband was drowned, and with the Titanic there went to the bottom of the Atlantic all that we had in the world.”
Suzanne Spaak lived in Paris with her husband Claude, a filmmaker, and their two children. She found great fulfillment in raising her family. Coming from an affluent family, she was accustomed to a high standard of living. However, she found the German occupation of France intolerable and decided to join the Resistance.
Spaak did not recoil from any assignment; she walked the length and breadth of Paris to find a hospital willing to accept ailing Jews hiding under assumed names. When necessary, she used her high social standing and knocked on the doors of clerics, judges, and authors, reminding them of their duty to act against persecution of Jews and opponents of the regime. In other cases, Spaak functioned as a simple underground operative and typed and distributed leaflets.
Spaak was especially drawn to saving the lives of Jewish children at risk of deportation. As the happy mother of two children, she was shaken by the Jewish children’s tragedy and could no longer enjoy her personal life. In early 1943, information concerning preparations for the deportation of Jewish children in UGIF centers became known. Spaak was an active participant in an operation that smuggled more than sixty children to safety. She sheltered some of the children in her home until they were all taken to people willing to shelter them. With her comrades’ help, Spaak, at great personal risk, provided the children with ration cards and clothing.
In October 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the prison in Fresnes. Before she was incarcerated, however, she had the presence of mind to give the lists of Jewish children and their addresses to an underground comrade, thus saving the children. On August 12, 1944, less than a week before the liberation of Paris, the Germans murdered Suzanne Spaak.
Source: Yad Vashem
The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance.
~ @Jarod K. Anderson: https://www.jarodkanderson.com/
[Art: Duy Huynh]
Traditionally, the people now known as Cherokee refer to themselves as Aniyunwiya (ah nee yun wee yah), a name usually translated as "the Real People," sometimes "the Original People."
▪The Cherokee never had princesses. This is a concept based on European folktales and has no reality in Cherokee history and culture. In fact, Cherokee women were very powerful. They owned all the houses and fields, and they could marry and divorce as they pleased. Kinship was determined through the mother's line. Clan mothers administered justice in many matters. Beloved women were very special women chosen for their outstanding qualities. As in other aspects of Cherokee culture, there was a balance of power between men and women. Although they had different roles, they both were valued.
▪The Cherokee never lived in tipis. Only the nomadic Plains tribes did. The Cherokee were southeastern woodland natives, and in the winter they lived in houses made of woven saplings, plastered with mud and roofed with poplar bark. In the summer they lived in open-air dwellings roofed with bark.
▪The Cherokee have never worn feathered headdresses except to please tourists. These long headdresses were worn by Plains Natives and were made popular through Wild West shows and Hollywood movies. Cherokee men traditionally wore a feather or two tied at the crown of the head. In the early 18th century, Cherokee men wore cotton trade shirts, loincloths, leggings, front-seam moccasins, finger-woven or beaded belts, multiple pierced earrings around the rim of the ear, and a blanket over one shoulder. At that time, Cherokee women wore mantles of leather or feathers, skirts of leather or woven mulberry bark, front-seam moccasins, and earrings pierced through the earlobe only. By the end of the 18th century, Cherokee men were dressing much like their white neighbors. Men were wearing shirts, pants, and trade coats, with a distinctly Cherokee turban. Women were wearing calico skirts, blouses, and shawls. Today Cherokee people dress like other Americans, except for special occasions, when the men wear ribbon shirts with jeans and moccasins, and the women wear tear dresses with corn beads, woven belts, and moccasins.
▪The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) are descended from Cherokee people who had taken land under the Treaty of 1819 and were allowed to remain in North Carolina; from those who hid in the woods and mountains until the U.S. Army left; and from those who turned around and walked back from Oklahoma. By 1850 they numbered almost a thousand. Today the Eastern Band includes about 11,000 members, while the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma claims more than 100,000 members, making the Cherokee the largest tribe in the United States.
▪Cherokee arts and crafts are still practiced: basket-weaving, pottery, carving, finger-weaving, and beadwork.
▪The Cherokee language is spoken as a first language by fewer than a thousand people and has declined rapidly because of the policies of federally operated schools. However, since the tribe has begun operation of their own schools, Cherokee language is being systematically taught in the schools.
▪Traditional Cherokee medicine, religion, and dance are practiced privately.
▪There have never been Cherokee shamans. Shamanism is a foreign concept to North America. The Cherokee have medicine men and women.
▪"aho" is not a Cherokee word and Cherokee speakers never use it. Most are actually offended by the misuse of this word. It's not some kind of universal Native word used by all tribes, as many believe. Each individual tribe have their own languages. We can respect these languages by using them correctly or not at all.
▪In order to belong to one of the seven Cherokee clans, your mother had to have been/be Cherokee and her clan is passed on to you. If the maternal line has been broken by a non Cherokee or someone had all sons, you have no clan, which is the case with many today.
▪There is only one Cherokee tribe that consist of three bands. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, United Keetoowah Band of Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. All others who claim a different band than one of the three above are not considered Cherokee and are a direct threat to Cherokee tribal sovereignty. In fact, to be Cherokee, one must be registered with the tribe, as Cherokee is a citizenship granted through documentation. One can have Native DNA but is not considered Cherokee until they are a registered tribal citizen.
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Cherokee man North Carolina
This is a solid gold hair comb that was created by the Scythian culture approximately 2500 years ago.
Scythia was a large area of the Pontic Steppe on the northern coast of the Black Sea and was inhabited by a nomadic people of Eastern Iranian descent.
They were most noted for their raising and breeding of both horses and cattle since the treeless land grew abundant grasses. They also became known as highly skilled craftspersons, and in particular their gold jewelry was much priced and found its way through both the Greek and Roman empires.
The extraordinary level of detail on the surmount of this comb is remarkable. Whoever the goldsmith was they were clearly a keen observer of anatomy as well as of apparel. The way their trousers drape is accurate to how the fabric would have positioned, the rider’s mail is rendered in precision. It is an astounding testimonial to their artistry and vision.
Collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.
I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me..
"I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters.
I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me... I stopped fighting with my in laws... I stopped fighting for attention... I stopped fighting to meet peoples expectation of me... I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate people.. I stopped fighting to please everyone... I stopped fighting to prove they were wrong about me.... I left such fights for those who have nothing else to fight...
And I started fighting for my vision, my dreams, my ideas and my destiny.
The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful & so much more content." Some fights are not worth your time... Choose what you fight for wisely.
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead.
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. ~Beryl Markham
(Book: West with the Night https://amzn.to/42grXXl)
Poppy Medicine 💐
primarily grow California poppy (non-narcotic) for medicine, but I cultivate a watercolor-palette of other poppies for pure joy, including opium poppies (Papaver somniferum), which are breathtaking in their beauty. . Opium poppy is California poppy’s famous edible, ornamental, medicinal, and narcotic cousin. Its seeds are the traditional poppy used to flavor breads and cakes, and its medicinal latex (opium) is the base for laudanum, morphine, codeine, and heroin. The plant has been used medicinally in many cultures to relieve pain, induce sleep, and stop spasmodic coughing. However, it is highly addictive, and not just for recreational users—medicinal users are not exempt from its mesmerizing allure. . Opium poppy likely originates from the eastern Mediterranean region of Europe or western Asia. The gorgeous plants are marked by a much more extravagant flower than California poppy’s simple gold chalice—their petals are richly colored, and the stamens and stigmas are often extraordinarily ornate. The flowers may be single, double, or lushly petaled, similar to peonies. The leaves are ruffled, glaucous, and have a thistle-like appearance. The seedpods are eye-catching—they are as round as globes and reminiscent of fairy lanterns. They are popular in dried flower arrangements and wreaths. . Depending on where you live, it may be legal or illegal to grow opium poppy (for ornamental value or the seed), but wherever you are, it’s likely to be illegal to make medicine from this plant. . To learn more about California poppy, opium poppy, and poppy medicine, join us for our Online Herbal Immersion—it's THE most comprehensive online program in sustainable, bioregional herbalism: . www.chestnutherbs.com/immersion . . 📷 by Debi Shapiro @debishapirophotographry (find her on Instagram), an exquisite floral photographer and artist 🌸 https://www.instagram.com/debishapirophotography/
These two were ~historically close friends~
Elisabeth Marbury (left), a well-known theatrical and literary agent and producer, and Elsie de Wolfe (right), an actress turned interior designer, were partners and lovers for 40 years. Their homes on Irving Place, and, later, in Sutton Place, became hubs for queer New Yorkers, including writer Mercedes de Acosta and photographer Cecil Beaton.
The two also ran in circles with the city’s wealthy elite, including Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan, and Anne Vanderbilt, widow of William K. Vanderbilt. Along with Morgan and Vanderbilt, Marbury helped organize New York’s first social club established by and for women, the Colony Club, of which de Wolfe was tapped to head its decoration.
Though de Wolfe married diplomat Sir Charles Mendl in 1926, the marriage was platonic, and de Wolfe and Marbury remained romantic partners until the latter’s death in 1933.
📷: Marbury and de Wolfe at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, January 31, 1905, by the Byron Company, Museum of the City of New York, 93.1.1.9394, detail, & 93.1.1.9424, detail.
First European map of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, made in 1524, and a mural of the city made by Diego Rivera in 1945. The city, which was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco, left Hernán Cortes' men in awe and many of them wondered if they were dreaming
More: https://bio.link/museumofartifacts
Photographer Angus James was fortunate enough to capture this shot. He said : “As l was pulling my lure from the fish to release back into the water, l noticed two little eyes looking back at me from inside the fish’s mouth. After capturing this picture, the little green tree frog leaped straight past my head onto the nearest tree. It was one of the coolest things l have seen in my life. This is one lucky frog !”🐸
Credit : WildAware.
Remembering...
June 2, 1889: Actress Martha Wentworth is born in New York City. Called the "actress of 100 voices," she voiced Jenny Wren (a parody of comedienne Mae West) for the Silly Symphonies "Who Killed Cock Robin?" (1935) and "Toby Tortoise Returns" (1936). Wentworth also performed the voices of Nanny, Queenie the Cow, and Lucy the Goose in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1961), Madam Mim, Granny Squirrel and Scullery Maid in "The Sword in the Stone"(1963), and the Cockney Cow in "Mary Poppins" (1964), her final film appearance. Starting out on radio in the 1920s, she became a film actress in the 1940s. Verna Martha Wentworth passed at age 84 in 1974.
http://www.thisdayindisneyhistory.com/Jun02.html