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Today — November 12, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

The darkness holds ...

  • foul, unclean things
  • an ultimate star
  • more lessons than the light
  • many keys
  • spiritual realms
  • secrets
  • the haunted
  • a shroud
  • eternal sway
  • becoming
  • its ancient place
  • all things together
  • hidden wonders
  • nature still in ebon folds
  • different dangers and terrors
  • mysteries
  • its velvet hands
  • more than just fear and unease
  • strange forms
  • no despair
  • embedded dreams
  • treasures and revelation
  • my agony
  • its breath
  • no hope for tomorrow
  • us down
  • almost an undivided dominion
  • the vale
  • perpetual reign
  • barely a memory
  • no fears
  • more than what is visible
  • the light of absent eyes
  • all loveliness beyond the mere design
  • surprises
  • you
  • somewhere a rose
"Whatever the darkness holds, we must take the lantern and go out into it." —Hearts of the World
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to progress the drawing.
From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893.

From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Feb. 1994.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Cast thyself back into hell from whence thee came!"  From Dark Shadows episode 438.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can dogs count?"  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1876.
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Old News (permalink)
"Growing old at the zoo but keeping cheerful."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Eight by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-Sttae College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1946.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The American Museum's Congo expedition collection of bats, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have come for my hour-glass."  From "The Ghost and the Glass" by Robert Barr, in The Idler, 1907.  [Hat tip: Zoomar]
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Edinboro State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales From Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger and illustrated by Paul Honoré, 1924.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1915 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sort of food zodiac.  From What the World Eats by Hanson Hart Webster, 1938. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer News, 1955.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My First Catechism by Lawrence Lovasik, 1983.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1926 yearbook.
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