Kimberly Tilley rescues forgotten stories of early twentieth century America from obscurity. Her books, Grievous Deeds (2023); Has it Come to This? (2022), Cold Heart (2020), and The Poisoned Glass (2019) were Amazon category best-sellers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
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Musical accompaniment: The Rain, Cello and Piano performed by Gun Chaikittiwatana on the piano and Supanee Sonchaiwanich on the cello. A recording of a recital in November of 2015.
Look at this wonderful picture from 1911 by Edward Steichen.
He called it Balzac, The Open Sky. It looks like a man facing his destiny.
It’s almost a triple work of art. The figure in the picture is a depiction of the French novelist and playwright, Honoré de Balzac, created by the great sculptor Auguste Rodin in 1898.
A statue of Balzac by Rodin, photographed by Steichen!
Hate being a wet blanket, but the photo struck me as a promotional image for an upcoming horror film.
I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder!