🦋 Good Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌙
VIENNA IN WINTER
Outdoors at Happy Hour
Graben Square, Inner City (First District)
Photographed 19 January 2023 © Merisi Vienna
#Vienna #VentiMonday

"Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of American history and a prolific author. Her Letters from an American newsletter educates millions of daily readers about the historical precedent or, increasingly, the unprecedented nature of our political landscape."
#HCR #VentiMonday

"La Grande Belleza synthesizes the absurd emptiness of living with the immense joy of those rare moments that actually make us want to live."
"It is essentially an anti-nihilistic movie that at the same time acknowledges the nihilism of mundane life."
(Nessie Andrew)

#VentiMonday #Film #Movie

VIENNA IN WINTER
The World's Most Beautiful Cabbage*
Beauty on a Cold Grey January Day
The Secession Building
Built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich
Its recently restored leafy gilded dome shines
like a jewel even on days devoid of reflections
Image © Merisi Vienna
#VentiMonday #Vienna #Gold

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 was awarded to Orhan Pamuk "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"

Read an excerpt from "Istanbul: Memories of a City" by Orhan Pamuk. 🦋
#VentiMonday

Beautiful quote and image.
#VentiMonday #MLK #Moon

IM KAFFEEHAUS
In the Quiet of an Early Evening
2011 © Merisi Vienna
#VentiMonday #BlueHour #Kaffeehaus #Coffee

VIENNESE MOMENTS
Here's looking at you, kid!
Looking up in Vienna's 13th District (Hietzing)
Image © Merisi Vienna
#VentiMonday #blue

IM KAFFEEHAUS
The Viennese Kaffeehaus is a place where you go when you want to be alone in company, as Alfred Polgar said, or words to that effect. #VIENNA #KAFFEEHAUS #VENTIMONDAY
Image © Merisi Vienna

Suddenly, everyone got up and headed over to Bluesky!
🦋 #VentiMonday
Image © Merisi Vienna

#vienna #VentiMonday #Schnitzel
Oh no, we have been discovered! 🦋

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." –E.B.White
h/t Hattie M. Workman
#VentiMonday #Blue

#PenguinAwarenessDay #VentiMonday

“knocker-up”
#VentiMonday

Do you feel hopeless about humanity? Look for the good things – and build a bridge towards them We all have the capacity for creativity and growth. Hold on to this potential when life seems bleak

#VentiMonday

"Nel blu, dipinto di blu"

VIENNESE IMPRESSIONS
Up There. Down There
Sphinx at the Upper Belvedere
Image © Merisi Vienna

#VentiMonday #Blue #vienna #Chagall #Modugno

#VentiMonday

VIENNESE MOMENTS
Blue Danube
Image © Merisi Vienna
#blue #VentiMonday 🦋

VIENNA IN WINTER
On a Minor Key
Blue Window
Landstrasser Hauptstrasse, 3rd District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#Vienna #Blue #VentiMonday

#VentiMonday 🦋

Hope you will join us for #VentiMonday. That is a day, more than any other, when we will need some beauty in the world.

Dear friends and follower friends:
This coming Monday, Martin Luther King Day, 
Mona and I will post all day about what’s beautiful and positive in our world. 
Will you join us, please?
Hashtag #VentiMonday

Yes to that!
I will also post about all that's beautiful:
#VentiMonday 
Fill the world with beauty!