Meanwhile...

Meanwhile...
I love all creatures. I consider them, all of them, to be sentient beings... I write thrillers, fantasy, mysteries, gothic horror, romantic adventure, occult, Noir, westerns and various types of short stories. I also re-tell traditional folk tales and make old fairy tales carefully cracked. I'm often awake very early in the morning. A cuppa, and fifteen minutes later I'm usually writing something. ;)

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Belly Dance Super Stars In Paris...

Hobbit Village...

Star Wars: The Death Star Destroyed Scene...

The movie "Topkapi," --- great comedy heist film...

Zorba Dances...

My Fairy Doctor...

We are innocence... We are love... We are peace...

We are beauty... We are pure joy... We only want to cuddle, feel safe and eat cookies...

Thunder Walking...

Karma, --- what goes around, comes around...

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Only...

Only in pain did I find my will. Only in chaos did I learn to be still. Only in fear, did I find my might. Only in darkness, did I see the light.

Friday, March 24, 2023

They helped the bookstore owner...

In South Hampton, the owner of a booksture wanted to move down the street to a place with less expensive rent. He put out a call for help to move his books. Folks, ~ the elderly, the young, the disabled and homeless in the area formed a human chain, passing books from hand-to-hand. Within an hour, they moved all the books.

Monday, March 20, 2023

I wish for you...

May you touch dragonflies and stars, dance with fairies and talk to the moon.

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Ah-HA!!!...
You think Karma is a bitch? Oh, no, honey. Karma is a wise and classy elder who calmly sits you down and serves you tea you later realize was laced with the same poison you served others for years.

(*Watch if you dare. You WERE warned!!!) The Most Brutal Tortures...

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Sunday, March 5, 2023

"The Mummy," --- the girls duel...

"The Mummy," (Full movie) 2017, --- With Tom Cruise & Annabelle Wallis...

Oooo!... King Tut!... (And, Mummy's Curses!!!)...

:O >>> "The Deaths of the People Who Discovered the Tomb of King Tut," By Deborah Stephenson... Though “The Mummy's Curse” sounds like an old horror movie, it was actually a widely believed phenomenon long before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. Themes of mummy curses appeared in popular books and short stories decades previously -- and probably started with the macabre habits of Victorian era mummy aficionados, who collected them as souvenirs and held mummy unwrapping parties. King Tut... Many people have asked, “Why Tut?” and not the millions of other mummies whose tombs were violated by local thieves and European explorers alike. If opening tombs was so risky why weren't people dropping dead like flies at mummy unwrapping parties or from ingesting mummy powder as medicine? One answer, posited in 1924 by Professor J. S. Mardrus, a French Egyptologist, is that Tut's tomb was the first intact tomb opened in modern times, and therefore, the curse fell squarely upon the shoulders of those who opened it. He believed that the curse was real, and dismissed questions arising over curses involving other mummies, saying they had already fallen upon ancient looters and had no further power against modern tomb raiders. The Unexpected Power of a Canary... In truth, no inscription existed within the tomb that could remotely imply a curse. What likely started the curse, was Howard Carter's pet canary, which he brought with him to the dig site. Since southern Egypt has few songbirds, the canary was considered exotic and garnered much attention by locals. When, the day after opening King Tut's burial shrines, Carter's “golden bird” was eaten by a cobra -- the snake-emblem, or uraeus, of the crown of the pharaoh -- workers considered it an ill-omen. Newspapers around the world carried the story of the British canary devoured by the “protector of the dead king” and a curse was born. Numbering the Dead... Despite sensational attempts to tie almost any fatality to the “Mummy's Curse,” few people connected to the discovery or excavation of Tut's tomb actually died before nature would have claimed them anyway. Of those, Lord Carnarvon -- the project's backer -- was the first to attract attention. He died in 1923, within the year of participating in the opening of Tut's shrines. What the press failed to report was that Lord Carnarvon had various illnesses for nearly 20 years before his death. Of the 22 people present at the tomb opening in 1922, only six actually died within a dozen years of that event. Of the 22 present at the opening of the sarcophagus in 1924, only two died within the next decade. Of the 10 people present when the mummy was unwrapped in 1925, all were still alive in 1934. Who Died and How... Mysterious deaths linked to King Tut's imagined curse were rare. Of those actually present during the excavation, aside from Lord Carnarvon, only A.C. Mace and Richard Bethel, Carter's personal secretary, died under unusual circumstances. Mace died of arsenic poisoning in 1928, and Bethel was found smothered in his bed in 1929. Lord Carnarvon's daughter, Lady Evelyn (Herbert) Beauchamp, was still alive and well 58 years later. Other “victims” had little or no genuine association with the tomb excavations or its discoverers, or they died far from Egypt -- many of them decades later, when they were quite elderly, such as radiologist Sir Archibald Douglas Reid who was claimed as a victim of the curse because he agreed to X-ray the mummy before he died. Friends and associates of Lord Carnarvon -- George Jay Gould and Woolf Joel did die soon after visiting the tomb, but not in Egypt and their deaths came from malaria and a gunshot wound, respectively. Most other deaths were attributed to the ravages of time or natural causes.

What Killed The People Who Opened King Tit's Tomb?...

The Mad Hatter & The March Hare...

A long-held view is that the hare will behave strangely and excitedly throughout its breeding season, which in Europe peaks in the month of March. This odd behavior includes boxing at other hares, jumping vertically for seemingly no reason and generally displaying abnormal behavior. An early verbal record of this animal's strange behavior occurred in about 1500, in the poem Blowbol's Test where the original poet said: Thanne þey begyn to swere and to stare, And be as braynles as a Marshe hare (Then they begin to swerve and to stare, And be as brainless as a March hare) Similar phrases are attested in the sixteenth century in the works of John Skelton (Replycacion, 1528: "Aiii, I saye, thou madde Marche Hare"; Magnyfycence, 1529: "As mery as a marche hare"). A later recorded use of the phrase occurs in the writings of Sir Thomas More (The supplycacyon of soulys made by syr Thomas More knyght councellour to our souerayn lorde the Kynge and chauncellour of hys Duchy of Lancaster. Agaynst the supplycacyon of beggars: "As mad not as a March hare, but as a madde dogge." Although the phrase in general has been in continuous use since the 16th century, It was popularised in more recent times by Lewis Carroll in his 1865 children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which the March Hare is a memorable character.

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Stop thinking about everything so much...

...You're breaking your own heart.

Hollyhock Dolls...

Regenerate...

You can rise up from anything. You can completely re-create yourself. Nothing is permanent. You're not stuck. You have choices. You can think new thoughts. You can learn something new. You can create new habits.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023