Henri Joseph Thomas - Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (n.d.)
Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the more popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rostand called her “the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture”, and Hugo praised her “golden voice”. She made several theatrical tours around the world, and she was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures.
She is also linked with the success of artist Alphonse Mucha, whose work she helped to publicize. Mucha became one of the more sought-after artists of this period for his Art Nouveau style.
Henri Joseph Thomas (1878-1972) was a Belgian genre, portrait and still life painter, sculptor and etcher from the Belgian School, Brussels, Belgium.
i’m confident that the absolute dregs of possibility for this society, the sugary coffee mound at the bottom of this cup, our last best hope that when our little bit of assigned plasma implodes it won’t go down as a green mark in the cosmic ledger, lies in the moment when you say hello to a bus driver and they say it back—
when someone holds the door open for you and you do a little jog to meet them where they are—
walking my dog, i used to see this older man and whenever I said good morning, he replied ‘GREAT morning’—
in fact, all the creative ways our people greet each other may be the icing on this flaming trash cake hurtling through the ether.
when the clerk says how are you and i say ‘i’m blessed and highly favored’
i mean my toes have met sand, and wiggled in it, a lot. i mean i have laughed until i choked and a friend slapped my back. i mean my niece wrote me a note: ‘you are so smart + intellajet’
i mean when we do go careening into the sun,
i’ll miss crossing guards ushering the grown folks too, like ducklings and the lifeguards at the community pool and men who yelled out the window that they’d fix the dent in my car, right now! it’d just take a second—
and actually everyone who tried to keep me alive, keep me afloat, and if not unblemished, suitably repaired.
but I won’t feel too sad about it, becoming a star
Although we need tio #DefundThePolice, it is important to understand tthat the #CDNpoli Judicial System allows these egregious breaches of what are supposed to be #CharterRights
