New Year

The Little Match Girl :: Hans Christian Andersen

color illustration for The Little Match Girl story by Hans Christian Andersen written in 1845 The drawing was created in 1922 by Honor C. Appleton for the Hans Christian Andersen book Fairy Tales. It is a dreamy picture with golden hues of a child freezing to death in the snow having hallucinations of warmth and happiness and being reunited with her dead grandmother.

Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening — the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it is true; but what was the [...]

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Excess Baggage?

Funny photograph of The Wine Harlot pulling a suitcase a big as she is. Not a minimalist in the packing department

The new year is upon us, a time to let go of old baggage and start new beginnings. A fresh start, a clean slate. A firm resolve for goals and resolutions to improve the quality of life for yourself and the world around you. This year the Wine Harlots will be traveling more, both domestic [...]

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