Marilyn Silverstone, South Vietnam, 1966

Looks like she can't, can't...can't!

The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up. ~W. B. Yeats art by Jana Heidersdorf

"We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal." Thich Nhat Hanh Image source unknown

My library is an archive of longings ... ~Susan Sontag 🎨 Honor C Appleton

Paris flea market 📖📚❤️ Image source unknown

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." Dr. Seuss

It was the best of times (dipping bread into soup) it was the worst of times (finishing the bread and then being stuck with just soup)

The Rosette Nebula, some say depicts a human skull

André Kertész Washington Square, Winter, 1954

David Bowie by Denis O'Regan

"Happiness often sneaks in a door that you did not think was open." - John Barrymore (art: Cynthia Chi)

"Time was not passing it was turning in a circle." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One hundred Years of Solitude.

"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get"

Josephine ❤️

Vivian Maier - Chicago (Clark Street Theatre), late 1960

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul ... G.K Chesterton, January One, 1904 Daily News

Bill Murray with Buttercup, a rescue puppy. "I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person," said Murray.

"Longed for him. Got him. Shit." Margaret Atwood Image source unknown

Brekkie and a book 📖

"Deep roots are untouched by frost." J.R.R. Tolkien

Herne Bay, UK, 1963

Laesende dame i sofa (Reading lady on sofa), Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1892

Flannery O'Connor: “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

'It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.' J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 Eric Van Nynatten

The King's Speech 2010

Currently reading

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well. 📷 PS

"It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are."- Marguerite Duras/"The Lover" 📷 Roger Parry, 1950

"The future is unwritten" - Joe Strummer. 📷 by Bob Gruen

Martin Parr - "Common Sense" series, 1995

day 1

Harold M. Lambert (1940)

I listened to the soft wind breaking through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Emily Bronte

Goals for 2026

New Year's Eve plans 📚 Alfred Lambart, Juliet, Daughter of Richard H. Fox of Surrey, 1931

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third." -T.S. Eliot Image source unknown

"The best books are in the hands of my friends and never come back." -Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35 Photograph by Jack Davison

L'amour l'après-midi, Éric Rohmer. 1972.

“Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls. Robert Walser, Der Spaziergang (The Walk), 1917 Walser taking a scroll between Herisau and Wil, Austria 1939

"Something in me knows where I'm going." Jackson Pollock

Maggie Smith, December 28, 1934 September 27, 2024. Maggie Smith in Death on the Nile (1978) Directed by John Guillermin

'My library is an archive of longings.' Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

"Each person who passes through our life is unique. They always leave a little of themselves and take a little of us with them. There will be those who take a lot with them, but there will not be those who will leave us nothing." ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Bonne nuit, Brigitte 💔

The New Yorker (1955) Daniel Brustlein