Santana is Sixty

Carlos Santana born today in 1947.

18 July 1918

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela!

Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden born today in 1860. Notorious for having been a prime suspect in the axe murders of her father and stepmother. Who is to know the truth?
In any case she captured the imagination of the popular media at the time and has so ever since. Her name crops up frequently in theatre and musicals etc.
The two skulls are the parents.

He would have been seventy today...

...twenty years older than he thought he should be anyway.
Hunter Stockton Thompson born in Louisville, Kentucky today in 1937, the Gonzo journalist who committed suicide a couple of years ago. Here in a self-portrait which looks like it was taken in Big Sur.

Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day

Billie Holiday died today in NYC at the age of 44 in 1959.

Content with Silence

There is a new piece by Linda Gordon up on her website of the above title Content with Silence please check it out on her website - see under LINKS. Then look under Featured Works. It is such a beautiful piece of stillness and meditation with the tide and primal form.

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn born today in 1606. We are so lucky that his paintings have survived for us to see now.