Michael Kelly

Thinker, Writer and Tutor

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

'The circle of Ulster literary male friendships of author Forrest Reid - Michael Kelly

https://t.co/qRcsZzP9NC

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

The Lovesick Maiden
Jan Steen, ca. 1660

[Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland 🇮🇪 @Stairnahireann]

The Gap of Dunloe (Bearna an Choimín) in Co Kerry is one of Ireland’s most spectacular mountain passes, lying between the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks and Purple Mountain.

Local folklore links its name to Coimín (or Cúmín), a legendary giant said to have roamed the valley. Like many

[Terry Tyler @TerryTyler4]

🌹 June 🌹

4.30 this morning 🌄

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

@TerryTyler4 I love the reflected light on the windows.

That's just 😎

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

@ProofreadJulia My uncle was working in a men's drapery store, and got fired after he put up a sign declaring:

'Well's trousers down again, come in and see the value.' 😂

[Jan Wellmann @janwe]

How a logical fallacy, weaponized for two centuries, is turning the planet into a digital Alcatraz.

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee
#Rembrandt, 1633

[Barendina Smedley @fugitiveink]

Here's another rose that I love — R. "Janet B. Wood", a lovely, unfussy rambler from Ayrshire, which was a gift from my wonderful parents-in-law — flourishing quite happily in North Norfolk.

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

@JGordonBramer @ThoNg676733 I really like 'In Too Deep'.

'Genesis - In Too Deep (Official Music Video)'

https://t.co/8ugiIqdBWC

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

@ladyanakina I shall look forward to seeing him on Centre Court.

🎾💙 🏆

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

@Artemisapphire It certainly is a wake up call. 🙂

[Michael Kelly @Guedella]

@ReelJoBotting @PaulSutton66 @rippersarchive @rippersdelight There can be no compromise on the number of dots. Period!😃

[Terry Applegate @CharliesWhiskey]

“Whatever determination I take, [a] Great deal Must Be personally Risked – But I Hope to Manage things so as to Commit no imprudence with the excellent detachment whose glory is as dear and whose Safety is much dearer to me than My own."

Excerpt, To George Washington from Marie Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De Lafayette, Head of Elk, 8 March 1781; Founders Online

The excellent detachment is made up of men from New the Hampshire, Canadian, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey regiments. 1200 men headed south to a land and climate they've never experienced.

From what I can tell thus far, General Lafayette does what he can to keep his promise.

[Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli @ladyanakina]

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[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Johan Christian Dahl - "Winter Landscape near Vordingborg, Denmark" (1829)

[Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore]

Ferns have inhabited this Earth for an unfathomable span of time, unfurling their fronds long before the dinosaurs walked the land and already ancient when the first flowering plants appeared ⌛🌺

For centuries they confounded the keenest minds, bearing no flowers and no visible seeds, and so it was reasoned that their seeds must be hidden from mortal eyes.

From this mystery grew darker tales and it was said that on certain enchanted nights, fern seed could be gathered by the bold and the foolish 🌙

Those who possessed it would gain strange powers, slipping unseen through the world and passing invisible among their fellow humans.

As William Shakespeare wrote:
"We have the receipt of fern seed; we walk invisible." 🍃✨

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Richard Gruelle - "The Canal, Morning Effect" (1894)

[Art Guide @ArtGuide_db]

Caravaggio
The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599
Painting the light