The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm. Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

"When asked to reveal her beauty secrets, actress Audrey Hepburn wrote this poem, which was read at her funeral: "To have attractive lips, say kind words. To have beautiful eyes, look at what people have beautiful in them. To stay thin, share the meal with those who are hungry. To have beautiful hair, let a child run his hand through your hair every day. To have a good expectation, to go knowing that you are never alone, but together with those who love you and have loved you. People, even more than objects, must be repaired, pampered, revived, reclaimed and saved: never reject anyone. Think about it: If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of every arm. As you grow older, you will realize that you have two hands, one to help yourself, the other to help those who need it. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes she wears, her face or the way she does her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because they are the open door to her heart, the source of her love. The beauty of a woman is not in her makeup, but in the true beauty of her soul. It is the tenderness it gives, the love, the passion it expresses. A woman's beauty develops with the years." She was born on May 4, 1929 (d. 1993)"

Happy 50th Birthday to the best band in the world @U2 Helped me through the good and bad over the years but still going with a 16th studio album launch yesterday. Roll on the tour & catching up with fellow fans I’ve met over the years. #U250

They tortured her in a bathtub filled with ice for hours, nearly drowning her over and over. She never spoke a single word. And decades later, her brother would name the world's most famous perfume after her. Catherine Dior was born into French wealth in 1917, but the Depression erased it all. Then came 1941, when she met Hervé des Charbonneries in Cannes—a man who showed her that some things matter more than comfort. She joined the F2 Resistance network as a courier, carrying intelligence on German troop movements. Every message she delivered could save dozens of lives. In July 1944, the Gestapo found her. They beat her. They submerged her in freezing water until her lungs burned for air, pulling her up only to demand names, then plunging her back down again. The torture lasted hours, then days, then weeks. It was designed to shatter anyone. Catherine gave them nothing. Not a single name. Not one location. Her silence saved countless lives, though it ravaged her body and left scars that never fully healed. Ravensbrück concentration camp came next. Somehow she survived that too. When the war ended, she didn't reclaim wealth or status. She became a florist at Les Halles market in Paris, selling jasmine and roses alongside Hervé. In 1947, her brother Christian was naming his first perfume. As he debated options with his muse, Catherine walked into the room. "Ah, there's Miss Dior!" someone exclaimed. Christian's face changed. He had found his name. The perfume became legendary—jasmine and rose notes that were, unknowingly, a tribute to the flowers Catherine tended daily. It was her story of renewal, bottled for the world. She spent her remaining years as guardian of the Dior legacy, surrounded by beauty and the quiet triumph of simply being alive. The next time you catch the scent of Miss Dior, you're not just smelling perfume. You're breathing in the story of a woman who survived the ice and chose the flowers. -My History Club

Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace Johannes #Vermeer, 1663-1665

Somewhere in the world is a painting worth 250 million dollars: it has been missing for 36 years, and the museum it was stolen from is still offering ten million dollars to get it back... The painting is The Concert, by Johannes Vermeer, made around 1664. It is a small, still scene, a man and two women making music together in a sunlit room, and it is considered the most valuable stolen artwork on earth. Part of what makes it so precious is that Vermeer painted very few pictures in his lifetime, and only 34 of them are known to survive anywhere in the world. This was one of them... On the night of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, tied up the guards, and walked out 81 minutes later with 13 works of art, the largest art theft in history. The Concert was the greatest prize among them. It was also the very first major artwork Isabella Stewart Gardner ever bought, in 1892, the purchase that began the collection that would eventually bear her name. More than three decades later, not one of the stolen works has ever been found. In the Dutch Room where it once hung, the museum still keeps the empty frame on the wall, exactly where it has always been, hoping that one day it will come home...

“You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.” Psalms 16:11

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Picasso and Dalí painting an egg

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