James, alongside Bergson, recognized the value of non-intellectual sense, urging us to reanimate our capacity for greater intimacy and sensible contact with the world… James encouraged us to access “our earliest, most instinctive, least developed, kind of consciousness.” Megan Craig

And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

Today's song is Moonshine by Lamb, today's scent is Cartier de Lune by Cartier. youtu.be/fdu1sdFOtiE?...

Impressionism Franco-German Encounters Hamburger Kunsthalle 29.10.2021 - 11.01.2026 www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitio...

Rocko Schamoni's Der Mond, performed together with LaBrassBanda, and some cows. Everything about this is just wonderful. youtu.be/vl1TL9tU9yg?...

Joseph Beuys Elk with Woman and Faunesse (1957)

Today's song is Earth by Mogli, today's scent is Replica Promenade in the Garden by Maison Margiela. youtube.com/watch?v=qn41...

Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff publicdomainreview.org/essay/lost-i...

A favourite black and white movie.

Today's song is Living on the Ceiling by Blancmange, today's scent is Un Jardin sur le Nil by Hermès. youtu.be/cL0NXKprKnQ?...

"All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, ...

Today's song is Between My Legs by Rufus Wainwright, today's scent is Jardins de Bagatelle by Guerlain. youtu.be/vkjPyfaKtfQ?...

"Hysterie ist ein männlicher Terminus für unbequeme Frauen." Watched Sisi & ich (2023) yesterday night. A wonderful film with outstanding performances by Sandra Hüller, Susanne Wolff and Georg Friedrich, as always. youtu.be/aU-PCCbTPo4?...

Today's song is Eden by Hooverphonic, today's scent is Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent. youtu.be/bWPOLL_Rr8U?...

Die Nacht holt heimlich durch des Vorhangs Falten Aus Deinem Haar vergessnen Sonnenschein. Schau, ich will nichts, als Deine Hände halten Und still und gut und voller Frieden sein. Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Nacht holt heimlich durch des Vorhangs Falten (1898) (excerpt)

Today's song is Europa and the Pirate Twins by Thomas Dolby, today's scent is Anaïs Anaïs by Cacharel. youtu.be/qkj4p3rI17s?...

Now reading, discovered on 🦋.

Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s #exhibition designmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Strange days: how the Blitz club changed the 1980s – and fashion www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) #nowrewatching youtu.be/d0389lPZdGU?...

32 °C today. But I'm cool with it.

Today's song is OK Boomerang by Darwin Deez, today's scent is Miracle by Lancôme. youtube.com/watch?v=pBKC...

10 great German horror films www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

31 °C. Summer's weird sense of humour. Sitting on the balcony under the parasol, having an Eiskaffee, doing what feels like breathing for the first time again in weeks.

On Rachel Ruysch www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02...

"And what charming underclothes you both have." Stranded squares Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) meet Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

If you live on the coast, you have a favourite spot to watch waves. My preferred place also gives me a chance to look out for the local ghost ship. I've not seen it for decades, but I keep looking in hopes of it proving my childhood memories true. – Beatrice Helm #VOH

Georgia O'Keeffe carrying her canvas in the desert, c.1920 (via FB) #WomensArt

No Greater Wonder: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Tonight, there are people who are so happy, that they have forgotten to worry about tomorrow. Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow. Jennifer Michael Hecht, September poetrysociety.org/poems/septem...

When down, dance to Dare. youtu.be/uAOR6ib95kQ?...

Gorillaz feat. Little Dragon - To Binge youtu.be/U58OdcVohGo?...

First Tatort of the new season tonight. A sure sign that autumn is near. 🍂🤎 www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort...

Evening draws in and the salt breeze carries the cry of plovers wafting in across Tama River in Michinoku’s Noda -Nōin (tr. Meredith McKinney)

I love it when autumn creeps in. Morning mists especially.

Kept going by coffee and coffee alone today. Looking forward to taking a walk after work.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates odd ceramic figures #womensart

It's Last Night of the Proms. Always used to call gran to tell her to turn on the tv. I also miss Sakari Oramo.

England’s oldest psychiatric hospital stages haunting new exhibition of patient art www.euronews.com/culture/2025... h/t @overdenken.bsky.social x

Wondering if Rufus still wears clogs. I do. Clogs rule. 😍 youtu.be/hll_pO59ksc?...

A little bit Tower of Pisa Whenever I see ya So please be kind if I'm a mess. Rufus Wainwright, Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Another song I love to sing of which I prefer the cover to the original: Mika's version of Satellite by Dave Matthews Band. youtube.com/watch?v=yHVK...

Monet on the Normandy Coast The Discovery of Étretat Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main 19 Mar 2026 – 5 July 2026 www.staedelmuseum.de/en/monet-on-...

To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, a world of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed down below, muffled and remote. Italo Calvino

Let me remember you, voices of little insects, Weeds in the moonlight, fields that are tangled with asters, Let me remember, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heavy. Sara Teasdale, September Midnight www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Nobody breaks the fourth wall like Kai Korthals, in Borowski und die Rückkehr des stillen Gastes (2015). #LarsEidinger #KorthalsTrilogie youtu.be/iXkHPY9yuos?...