Veterans Day

We did it once. We can do it again.

 

Sophie a La Montagne, ca. 1950s

 

Miss Fury

 

Erté

 

"Defenceless under the night

Our world in stupor lies;

Yet, dotted everywhere,

Ironic points of light

Flash out wherever the Just

Exchange their messages:

May I, composed like them

Of Eros and of dust,

Beleaguered by the same

Negation and despair,

Show an affirming flame."

---from "September 1, 1939," W.H. Auden.