We are all eternal. All this pain is an Illusion.

The Gaily Grind

Mylène Demongeot, c.1950s

French actress Beatrice Dalle, 1988

French film star Mylène Demongeot (1935-2022) seemed to belong to that rare class of women who glow as if illuminated from within, carrying grace and elegance the way Paris carries twilight. Her beauty was not merely seen but felt, like music drifting through an open window on a summer evening. She moved through cinema with a luminous ease, smiling as though life itself were a private romance, fleeting, exquisite, and never meant to last, yet unforgettable long after the lights went down.

Garden with Weeping Willow (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

View of the Old Outer Harbor at Le Havre (1874) by Claude Monet

-The End of the Day-

Jilly Johnson

Oil on canvas , 24 x 36 in.

Lucien Clergue. Brandolini Palace, Venice, 1979.

Brooke Labrie.