“If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.” “Take it easy, but take it.” “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” BOTD folk singer Woodrow "Woody" Guthrie 1912

Completed in 1947, House of Earth is legendary folk singer & American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it’s the story of an ordinary couple’s dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world. #Booksky

"I've been rather like a cat. I'm finicky and I've done a lot of things…" "You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact." BOTD actor, musician & singer Harry Dean Stanton 1926

“Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.” “All art is erotic.” Born today in 1862 painter Gustav Klimt

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” BOTD Irish poet & playwright William Butler (W.B.) Yeats 1865 #Booksky

Pamela Colman Smith, drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art #Witchsky

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Mattie realized that this moment called for all three." #Booksky

"Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent." BOTD English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist & alchemist John Dee 1527 As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England during his lifetime. #Witchsky #Booksky

BOTD artist Andrew Wyeth 1917 Wyeth's painting 'Christina's Bedroom' 1947

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” BOTD actor Patrick Stewart 1940 Patrick Stewart with Bella, a cat he adopted after finding her, at liberty, on the set of Star Trek The Next Generation

"Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth." "I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum." BOTD Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka 1934 #Booksky

“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women.” “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” "Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” BOTD Malala Yousafzai 1997 #Booksky

"Experience is the teacher of all things." "Men willingly believe what they wish." "What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also." BOTD (Gaius) Julius Caesar, born in Rome around 100 B.C.

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” "Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify." "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." BOTD Henry David Thoreau 1817 #Booksky

'Lavender' Contemporary artist Tatyana Ausheva

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” BOTD artist best known for a painting of his mother: James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834 'Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen' Design for mosaic

"Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke." BOTD Yul Brynner, July 11, 1920, Vladivostok, Russia #dontsmoke

"Whatever the cook is feeling goes directly into the food." ~ Denise Linn & Meadow Linn, The Mystic Cookbook #Witchsky #Booksky

Canopic jars of Neskhons, wife of Pinedjem II. Made of calcite, with painted wooden heads. 990–969 B.C.E. On display at the British Museum

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” “Isolation offered its own form of companionship” “The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.” BOTD writer Jhumpa Lahiri 1967 #Booksky

With an introduction by Marlon James ~ "Got so caught up in the novel I was writing that I forgot that I wrote some other shit too. So this also happened…" ~ Marlon James #Booksky

Cormac McCarthy, age 23, in London....w/ monkeys #Booksky

'The Dweller in the Innermost' George Frederick Watts, 1885-86

Actually, there is no *I don't understand* in cat. They understand. They understand purrfectly......They just don't like whatever they might be bitch slappin' @ the time......🤣😽🤩😻😽 #Caturday

Seasons of the Witch ~ Lammas Oracle Cards Lorriane Anderson (Author), Juliet Diaz (Author), Tijana Lukovic (Illustrator) The seventh deck in the bestselling Seasons of the Witch series celebrates Lammas and centers on harvest, success, and gratitude. #Witchsky

Know the warning signs as temperatures are expected to be HOT for the next couple of days due to the heat dome

'The Artist's Wife Seated in a Tree' Cecil Collins, 1976

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." BOTD Marcel Proust 1871 #Booksky

"You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That’s pretty much how it goes." "Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don’t like." "Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded." BOTD musician Sixto Rodriguez 1942