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sisterwolf:

Alice MacMahon by Carlo Leonetti 

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I am toppled by the world
a creation of ladders, pianos, stairs cut into the rock
a devouring world of teeth where even the common snail
eats the heart out of a forest
as you and I do, who are human, at night

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savetheflower-1967:

Babe Paley modeling for Vogue. Photo by Richard Avedon, 1967.

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Dame Helen Mirren steps in to grant a dying boy’s wish to meet the Queen

Oliver Burton, ten, may have just weeks to live after being hit by cancer for a third time.

Visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace topped his list of dream activities — but his family was told a meeting would not be possible.

So Dame Helen stepped in, bringing him in a limo to see her West End show The Audience — in which she plays the Queen — then taking him backstage to meet her corgis.

The actress, 67, even KNIGHTED the excited schoolboy “Sir Oliver” during his visit, telling The Sun: “It was a pleasure and a privilege to meet such a brave young man.

Ex-Coldstream Guard James, now a full-time carer for his son, said of the visit: “She stayed in character for the whole thing and had a butler. “She was really lovely.”

Oliver, from Leicester, was first diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006, aged three. He recovered but in 2010 the cancer returned — and once again he pulled through.
Then last Christmas he was diagnosed with cancer in his spine and bone marrow — and this time intensive treatment is not possible, so he returned home with his mum, dad, and brother Ethan, six.
The family have raised £10,000 for special trips for Oliver through the National Children’s Tumour Leukaemia Cancer Trust, which arranged the visit with Dame Helen. [x]

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blackwoodandbrass:

Uphill | Somerset (by fraser donachie)

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4th April 1957 - Jackie on "Home" with Arlene Francis ›

Pat Benatar - Invincible

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maudelynn:

Gorgeous 1920s Fred L Packer art work for  “Powers Coloritype Co.
Color Plate Specialists”

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(and now I am off into my day with teeny tiny Iris .. Venice may be on the menu! queue on  xo xo ) 

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