Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards As you can see from

As you can see from the number of photos I'm posting

This puzzle

This marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting"--a technique popular in the mid 19th century

including many hold to light postcards

Soulful Child in Cat Costume! vintage playing cards As you can see fromThis one makes me want to both laugh and cry every time I look at it, and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void! The texture of the wall upon which this cat costumed child rests their hand so contemplatively to my eye is especially right, as is the flop of the left ear and the white bow at the end of the tail. Kind of amazing. The photograph, which I