Ok, this was brilliant: an incredibly (impossibly) erudite study of European art and culture’s debt to the Middle East - but also feverish, woozy, romantic, forlorn. It’s almost too much (and too intense) to take in - but so affecting. I loved it.

Sun! & 🌬️

Bruce McPherson reading a story by Ursule Molinaro

The sun has been struggling for days to get out

Hawk just flew by

Today's Sawkill, just before sunset

Blue topaz ring, an early birthday present from Robert, from Kristin Hanson in Rhinebeck NY 💙

Blue jay wondering where his food is

Grateful for glimpses of blue, however brief

Book mail! Very grateful to my lovely editor at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for this, it's quoted extensively in Laure Murat's Proust: A Family Affair, which I recently finished translating.

Nuthatch 🪶

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Those eyebrows 🪶

Red-bellied woodpecker 🪶

Train!

Just before sunset

Blue sky through the sun roof after days of gloom

Looking forward to translating the work that emerges from this... artdaily.com/news/187263/...

Reading Robert Kelly

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The squirrel babies are getting bigger!

A lovely sunset over the Adams parking lot

Getting ready to make butternut squash soup

The little hands appearing on the right 😭

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I told Robert that when he turned 80 he could smoke as much as he liked, and since he's 90 now...