Photo of the Day: London. 1949.

© René Groebli. London. 1949.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYQaD2CAi9A

You’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her...

You’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her...

© Alfred Eisenstaedt. The Heartache of Wartime Farewells. 1943.

Fericire nemăsurată:)

Fericire nemăsurată:)

New York City. 1954. Vivian Maier.

Nicolae Steinhardt (Jurnalul fericirii)

Nicolae Steinhardt

Evenimentul eliberării se apropie şi poate avea loc din clipă în clipă. În mica celulă de la Zarca, singur, îngenunchez şi fac un bilanţ. Am intrat în închisoare orb, cu vagi străfulgerări autogene ale beznei, care despică întunericul fără a-l risipi, şi ies cu ochii deschişi. Am intrat răsfăţat, răzgâiat. Ies vindecat de fasoane, nazuri, ifose. Am intrat nemulţumit. Ies cunoscând fericirea. Am intrat nervos, supărăcios, sensibil la fleacuri. Ies nepăsător. Soarele şi viaţa îmi spuneau puţin. Acum ştiu să gust felioara de pâine cât de mică. Ies admirând mai presus de orice curajul, demnitatea, onoarea, eroismul. Ies împăcat. Cu cei cărora le-am greşit, cu prietenii şi duşmanii mei, ba şi cu mine însumi. În locul acesta ireal de sinistru aveam să cunosc cele mai fericite zile din viața mea.

― Nicolae Steinhardt (Jurnalul fericirii)

Photo of the Day: Richwood, West Virginia. 1942.

Happiness means being with your best friends and your dog. 

Richwood, West Virginia. 1942.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark wood...

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.  ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel...

John Coltrane would have been 90 today

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being...

— John Coltrane would have been 90 today.

Photo of the Day: New York. 1953.

Misty smog over Empire State and surrounding buildings.

New York. November 21, 1953. © Eliot Elisofon

Jazz and Rain...

John Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r594pxUjcz4

Photo of the Day: New York City. August 1930.

A moment of serenity on the 60th floor of the Empire State Building.

New York City. August 1930.

Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (In a Sentimental Mood)

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.  
― Casablanca (1942)

Photo of the Day: Los Angeles. 1949.

I'm In The Mood For Love. © J.R. Eyerman. Los Angeles. 1949. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuzUudkapEs

Loving you was like going to war. I never came back the same.

Photo of the Day: André Kertész. 1920.

You are so brave and quite I forget you are suffering. (Ernest Hemingway)

© André Kertész. 1920.

Nostalgii...

NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher. Life Magazine (1985)

She's got stars in her eyes...

NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher. Life Magazine (1985)

Rainy days and Saturdays

There is only one thing to do on a rainy Saturday... 

Photo of the Day: Robert Doisneau. 1955.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgTOY8IRBA 

© Robert Doisneau. Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander (1955)

I want to make bad decisions with you forever.

Now that's what I call an offer she can't refuse.

Photo of the Day: World Trade Center. New York. 1979.

World Trade Center. New York. 1979.

© Louis Stettner

The portrait of a Genius...

John Coltrane. 1960. © Burt Goldblatt

Photo of the Day: Milan. 1934.

Little feet, great expectations...

© Alfred Eisenstaedt. La Scala Ballet School. Milan. 1934.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

I’m not brave any more, darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
― Ernest Hemingway

Photo of the Day: Paris. 1946.

Paris. 1946. Desolate and hauntingly beautiful. © Ed Clark. LIFE Magazine

If I could turn back time: Cary Grant, London, 1946.

If I could turn back time...

Cary Grant leaves his London hotel, 24th April 1946.

Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Photo of the Day: Times Square. New York City. 1959.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

© Henri Cartier-Bresson. Times Square. New York City. 1959.

Nothing to do, nowhere to go...

Photo of the Day: © Dorothea Lange (1935)

"Coboară-n lut părinţii, rând pe rând, în timp ce-n noi mai cresc grădinile."

© Dorothea Lange (1935)

London, United Kingdom

Half of my heart... — London, United Kingdom.

Photo of the Day: Paris. 1956.

School days in the 1950s... Paris. 1956. © Robert Doisneau