Flycatcher on Flowering Branch, Oil on Board Signed M Pahl, 1974 antique illustration then two red

then two red

but I have not been able to find it in the The New Yorker's archive in order to date it--but surely what makes for demographic perfection has become more complex and conflicted since it was published

which I'm taking as a assertion of power and self possession

though someone would need to be pretty special to deserve one of these

The International Order of Odd Fellows (I

Flycatcher on Flowering Branch, Oil on Board Signed M Pahl, 1974 antique illustration then two redI've been finding myself attracted to not very skillfully painted vintage paintings of late, I think in significant part because they feel cozy and comforting and optimistic. And maybe also because I keep fantasizing about a great old farmhouse bathroom with clawfoot tub in which I'd spend half my time soaking, and in which they would feel completely at home. This sweet painting of a flycatcher (noted on the back of the painting) with long forked tail