#Gardner

[gbiechele]

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

“Contemplative Photography: Meditations in the Woods”

I am having a photography exhibition at the Levi Heywood Memorial Library, 55 West Lynde St., Gardner, MA. The exhibition will run from March 1st until March 29, 2024.

Artist's Statement:

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention

Be astonished

Tell about it

Mary Oliver “Sometimes”

Mary Oliver’s instructions above have become the guiding principles for my photography. Photography has gained importance in my life since it has become a spiritual practice. I try to spend time in nature on a regular basis. It is a time for meditation and a time to clear my thoughts. With a quiet mind I wait to see what calls to me, what “shimmers”. Then I try to capture the subject in a personal, intimate, and emotional way. I am not interested in simply documenting the world, but trying to reveal something essential about myself and the world around me.

If I have been successful, some of these images will touch you, make you feel something of the beauty, astonishment, and wonder I felt during the time I spent creating them.

Each image is accompanied by a Haiku poem, written to express in a few simple words the connection and feelings that I experienced at the time I made the photograph.

I hope you enjoy the time you spend with these images and their invitation to journey inward, enjoy some serenity, and see the world with fresh eyes.

#photography #exhibition #original photography #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #photography exhibition #contemplative #contemplative photography #Gardner #Massachusetts #Gardner Massachusetts #Guy Biechele #Meditations #Meditations in the Woods #woods #forest #nature #nature photography #photo exhibition #Guy Biechele Photography

[why-i-love-comics]

Poison Ivy #21 (2024)

written by G. Willow Wilson art by Marcio Takara & Arif Prianto

#poison ivy #pamela isley #gardner #bella garten #DC #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[katrinthecat]

#treasure island #остров сокровищ #blind pew #gardner #my ocs #self insert

[ceo-draiochta]

Obviously plenty of issues with wicca but one thing I just don't understand is why they had to drag us into it? There are alternative english, non gaelic, holidays celebrated around those times if they were so set on the dates.

The fact that English people, who literally lived through Irelands war of independence decided they were going to slap gaelic names on their neo religion is so fucking tiring. Can they not just leave us alone for a minute.

And I understand that the mixing of 'druidism' and wicca in early stages had an impact, Nichols specifically and it wasn't until later wiccans realised Gardner had lied about the entire foundations of his religion.

(Any supposed "Scottish" past of these people is blatant Highlandism, that justifies nothing btw)

But to this day people are uncritically using the words imbolc, bealtaine, lughnasadh and samhain in a wicca context with no regard for the fact that people just stole from a culture their country had tried to decimate. Is there no thought into the appropriateness of the use of these holidays?

Lá Bealtaine, Lá Lúnasa and Oíche Shamhna were all still celebrated at this point too? While imbolc is presumably subsumed into Brigids day. There were real living people celebrating (and still celebrate) these holidays, they weren't for random English people to take and twist into a god and goddess sex metaphor.

I have personally never heard of people today trying to do something about this but I also would not frequent IRL wicca spaces. So those more in the know, is there any push or discussion about this?

#irish paganism #celtic paganism #gaelic paganism #tae #wicca #wheel of the year #gardner #sorry lads in another soap box #i have to believe with how many people claim to be wicca and claim to care about historical justice and claim to be irish that this is bein #looked at somewhere #and hey maybe you wicca reading this #this could be something for you to bring up to your coven/friend group #paganism #witchblr #witchcraft #wiccan

[roughridingrednecks]

Gardner

#gardner #bald #long beard #mugshot #redneck #beard

[postcard-from-the-past]

American actress Ava Gardner on a vintage postcard

#old #postcard #postkaart #ava #gardner #vintage #american #briefkaart #postal #ansichtskarte #ephemera #photography #photo #ava gardner #postkarte #tarjeta #actress #historic #sepia #carte postale

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue April 15, 1956

Georgia Hamilton accompanied by actor David Niven aka Phileas Fogg in the film "Around the World in Eighty Days; wears a short jacket suit, cut neckline and waist. By Traina-Norell, in grained beige silk. The bell of Balenciaga for Gardner Pumps by Customcraft, nylon stockings, Vision.

Georgia Hamilton accompagnée de l'acteur David Niven alias Phileas Fogg dans le film "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours; porte un tailleur veste courte, décolleté et taille coupés. Par Traina-Norell, en soie beige grainée. La cloche de Balenciaga pour Gardner. Escarpins par Customcraft, bas nylon, Vision.

Photo Karen Radkai vogue archive

#us vogue #april 1956 #fashion 50s #traina-norell #balenc #balenciaga #gardner #customcraft #vison #georgia hamilton #karen r #karen radkai #vintage vogue #vintage fas #vintage fashion #david niven #around the #around the world in one day #phileas #phileas fogg

[tommydashwood]

#gay #gardner #glasses #male

[sweetlolitaaesop]

Idv x Bloodborne crossover when ?

#licca talks #identity v #bloodborne #crossover #idv crossover #concert #emma woods idv #gardner #plain doll #idv opera singer #sangria #naib subedar

[detournementsmineurs]

"Agate Moth Pendant" by Sophie Gardner.

#inspirations bijoux #agate #papillon #Gardner #mineral

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.

- Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

Ava Gardner was a hard-drinking, wisecracking, libidinous vamp, a liberated woman before it was even invented.

It's an extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman. She swore like a drunken sailor, slept with anything that moved, drove Frank Sinatra to such heights of passion and torment that he attempted suicide, and entirely failed to care what anybody thought of her.

Ava Gardner was an actress who starred in some good films and some not very good films; but more than that she was the great iconic beauty of her day. She wafted around the screen and was featured on the front covers of magazines looking untouchable in pearls and mink. And yet she behaved like a man or, at least, like a certain kind of man - one with pots of cash, a taste for hard liquor and a higher-than-average libido.

She was, in essence, a liberated woman, a good two decades before women's liberation was invented. Her success and status made it possible for her to make the kind of choices - and mistakes - that other women couldn't. And, even now, there's really nobody who can match her combination of carnality, glamour and a potty-mouth.

Sixty years on, people claim that Sex and the City's Samantha Jones is the figment of a gay, male scriptwriter's imagination, but compare it to this story from Murray Garrett, a press photographer, recounting a backstage photo-call: 'This one idiot guy ... says to her, "Hey Ava, Sinatra's career is over, he can't sing any more ... what do you see in this guy? He's just a 119-pound has-been." And Ava says, very demurely, no venom, just very cool, in the most perfect ladylike diction, "Well I'll tell you - 19 pounds is cock."'

She married three times - to Mickey Rooney (a serial cheater), the musician Artie Shaw (who belittled her) and finally and most tumultuously to Frank Sinatra. She lured him away from his wife, sinking his career in the process, married him, divorced him, but never got over him. Nor he her. It was a life-long relationship between two people who loved each other but couldn't be together. Their rows, she said, 'started on the way to the bidet'.

Instead, Gardner had affairs. They litter her life. She slept with David Niven, Robert Mitchum, John F Kennedy. She had flings with Spanish bullfighters and Mexican beach boys and rejected Howard Hughes, the multi-millionaire aviator and womaniser.

What made Gardner who she was? It's the great, unanswered question of her life and career. There is nothing in the early years to suggest her character to come. Not the tomboyish childhood spent with her family among the ordinary rural poor of north Carolina; nor the moment when an MGM studio exec spotted her portrait in the window of a photographer's shop; nor even when she married Mickey Rooney, the studio's biggest star.

It is as if her character wasn't so much revealed over time, as forged in the furnaces of Hollywood's industrial complex.There are countless testimonies from other Hollywood stars to Gardner's beauty, but almost no sense of her as a person. She gradually turns from object to subject, her beauty her defining characteristic and the key to her power and freedom but also, as her favourite director, John Huston, says, a curse from the gods. 'Ava,' he said, 'has well and truly paid for her beauty.'

Her high spirits descend into alcoholic abuse; her wanton behaviour into episodes such as the one when she is banned from the Ritz in Madrid for urinating in the lobby; when she moves to live out her days in the relative anonymity of a London flat it is with a sinking heart that you realise that the woman who charmed Ernest Hemingway and Robert Graves should become so isolated.

She made some truly terrible choices, including turning down the role of Mrs Robinson in The Graduate and ending her days making schlock TV. She was careless of her art, under-confident about her talent and tended to be taken at her own measure. But ultimately, it's besides the point. Gardner's genius was not her work, but, as her own autobiographical book proves, her life.

#gardner #ava gardner #quote #actress #hollywood #golden age #beauty #film #cinema #movies #diva #sex siren #sex appeal #femme fatale #culture

[why-i-love-comics]

Harley Quinn: Uncovered #1 (2023) cover by Derrick Chew

#harley quinn #harleen quinzel #gardner #DC #DC comics

[whitequeen-ofrohan]

Some things never change 🤍

✨Joe Mazzello in Jurassic Park (1993) & in Dear Sidewalk (2013)✨

#joe mazzello #joseph mazzello #tim #jurassic park #gardner #dear sidewalk

[thejewitches]

The History of Book of Shadows

As many practitioners, occultists & witches work to decentralize and remove Wicca from their practices, one element that often remains is the term “Book of Shadows”.

Because of the homogenization of Wicca & witchcraft, particularly within pop culture, the term BoS has become synonymized with witchcraft as a whole. But let’s look at the origins of the term & how it even made its way into Wicca.

Gerald Gardner, before his foray in ‘creating’ a religion, was a novelist. According to some, he merely published under the guise of fiction due to the laws regarding witchcraft at the time, however; Others believe a narrative more similar to that of L Ron Hubbard’s failed foray into fiction. His early novel serves as a crystallization of the evolution of his beliefs before Wicca and as such:  there is no trace of the term Book of Shadows. Doreen Valiente, who'd become a High Priestess of Wicca, illuminates why this is. Gardner only discovered the term in 1949 because of 'The Occult Observer'. Published within Volume I, Number 3 of the Occult Observer was Kashmiri palmist Mir Bashir’s article "The Book of Shadows"

His article delved into a Sanskrit text known as The Book of Shadows. The publisher of the magazine was the very same as the publisher of Gardner’s fiction. Advertised within the same magazine was Gardner’s novel, High Magic’s Aid, written under the pen name, Scire.

The Book of Shadows that Bashir writes of is a Sanskrit text that discusses divination using ones shadow and the article follows Bashir and a friend as they travel to visit a pundit who performs said divination using his duplicate of the original Book of Shadows .If you’re interested in reading about the Book of Shadows, you can find a PDF version of the Occult Observer here, where you can read Bashir’s account.

Soon after his novel is advertised in the same magazine that publishes the article on the BOS, Gardner names his book of rites and magic “The Book of Shadows”. Before this, Valiente notes it was very rarely referred to as “The Black Book” within his fiction, but never the a Book of Shadows.

Gardner’s own BoS, she notes, was filled with direct plagiarism from older magical grimoires, as well as the works of Crowley, Masonic rites, & more.  When confronted by Valiente regarding how much of his work was blatantly copied from Crowley, with whom Valiente looked upon with disdain, Gardner said, “well, if you think you can do any better, go ahead”—which she did. Her version erases much of Crowley's influence but takes influence from other writings.

Gardner’s BoS was not what we see today: a personal journal filled with knowledge and documentation of rituals specific to the practitioner, but belonged to the Coven, controlled by the High Priest/Priestess, from which members could at times copy, depending on the coven.

This distinct evolution into a personal journal is sharply divided open, as others conflate it with ‘grimoire’, a book of spells/magic. This evolution of what the term means has, in many ways, shifted how the term is viewed at all within spiritual spaces.

Many contemporary witches/pagans distinguish between the two by stating that a BoS is a personal journal while a grimoire is a textbook of descriptions, spells, rituals & the like, with no personal documentation/thoughts/etc. But this is seemingly subjectively used.

We can argue the 'definition' as provided by the dictionary, of course, but we must also acknowledge how genuine human use varies from dictionary definitions. Book of Shadows has become a term that people expect to hear from spiritualists--regardless of their background

The 'baseline' of Wicca & Wicca-based practices as the 'standard' of witchcraft means that even those who do not ever intend to interact with Wicca do so by immersion--simply being in modern 'witch' spaces means constant contact. And we are not guilt-free either--in the early days of Jewitches, in order to find stability within a community that was, and is, uncomfortable with our manner of magic, we infrequently used the term BoS, thinking it would be an easier way to communicate--but it was never right.

Read more: The Occult Observer, PDF version

 Doreen Valiente's The Rebirth of Witchcraft (1989)

#book of shadows #witchcraft #wicca #wiccan #gardner #gerald gardner #witchy #witchblr #jewitch #jewitches #bos #grimoire #magick #magic #witch #witches

[templeofthought]

gardner's just a freak. neither of them are winning because gardner is just trying to kidnap jack to do a torture auction because the first time he tried to kidnap him, he got his leg cut off. jack just wants to mind his own fucking business (and kill raiders but still)

#I FRICKED UP AND HAD TO REUPLOAD #SORRY SUNNY ILU #fo4 au #gardner #fo jack

[thebigkelu]

Portrait of Asa-To-Yet (Gray Leggings), Comanche, with Peace Medal - Gardner - 1872

#native american #comanche #gardner #1870s #1872