Andrea Simoncini & Nathaniel Hawthorne

Meditation, photo by Andrea Simoncini, www.andreasimoncini.com



If we would know what heaven is before come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirit, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Note-books, 1841

Ken Probst & P. Chesterfield

Photo by Ken Probst "Tattooed twins", San Diego, 1989




Vice,
 in its true light is so deformed
that it shocks us at first sight;
and would hardly ever seduce us,
if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Chesterfield